5 February 2025

New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Ezgi Ozlu

Ezgi Özlü is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Strasbourg and a re:constitution fellow of 2024/2025.

She holds a PhD from the University of Strasbourg, where her research focused on how procedural costs affect the right of individual application before the European Court of Human Rights.

Her dissertation was awarded the 2024 Thesis Prize by the René Cassin Foundation in France and the best doctoral thesis in Public Law at the University of Strasbourg for 2023–2024.

During her PhD studies, Ezgi was a Research Fellow at the Department of International Public Law and Dispute Resolution at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law. Her research interests encompass issues related to access to justice, including legal aid, procedural costs, admissibility requirements, and reparations. She is also focused on topics surrounding the legal profession, such as legal mobilisation, legal ethics, and litigation funding, as well as broader procedural aspects of international adjudication.

Ezgi Özlü will be a Visiting Researcher at iCourts from 1 February - 30 April 2025.

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