Taygeti Michalakea
Research Fellow, Public International Law, Human Rights Law, Corporations and Human Rights, Transitional Justice, International Criminal LawDr Taygeti Michalakea is a lecturer at the European Law and Governance School in Athens, where she teaches and researches international law with an emphasis on international human rights law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and business and human rights. In addition, as a postdoctoral researcher at Panteion University, she participates in the Horizon Europe research program (2024 – 2026), entitled ‘ARM: The Long Arm of Authoritarian States,’ in which he investigates the interplay of technology and freedom of expression, in four different authoritarian regimes. She has conducted extensive socio-legal research in human rights and international and regional law, in Colombia, Tunisia and Southeast Asia, and her work has been presented at international conferences and scholarly journals. In the past he has collaborated with the European University Institute in Florence, Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa (Italy), Javeriana University in Bogotá, and Essex Law School in the United Kingdom.
Taygeti has also worked as a legal advisor to various international organizations and civil society, including the United Nations Development Programme, the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Kosovo, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ENACT consulting firm, the British non-profit foundation Global Rights Compliance, and other.