Konstantina Karagkouni

Onderzoeker
Internationaal en Europees Recht
k.karagkouni@uu.nl

Konstantina works as an Associate Researcher for the Beyond Compliance Consortium Project, based at Utrecht University. She holds an LL.M. in Public International Law, specialising in Security and Conflict from Utrecht University, an LL.M. in Public International Law, and an LL.B. in Law, both awarded by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Konstantina has interned at the T.M.C. Asser Institute where she contributed to the MATRA project ‘Strengthening Ukraine’s Capacity to Investigate and Prosecute International Crimes’ and she served as a student assistant on the project ‘Civilian Agency, Armed Groups, and International Law’ under the leadership of Professor Katharine Fortin.

Prior to joining academia, she worked as a legal assistant for an NGO in Samos, Greece, specialising in pushbacks and enforced disappearances and drafted submissions for interim measures proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights. She has worked on cases concerning the criminalisation of refugees under Greek migration legislation, including litigation that resulted in the acquittal of refugee clients who had been charged with facilitating irregular entry despite their protected status.

Konstantina is also an EU - qualified lawyer, admitted to practice law in Greece (Piraeus Bar) and has worked in private practice in Greece, specialising in civil and criminal law cases.