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Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi

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liliantsourdi@gmail.com

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Dr. Lilian Tsourdi is an Assistant Professor and Dutch Research Council grantee atthe Law Faculty of Maastricht University and the Maastricht Centre for European Law. She has received three prestigious research grants as Principal Investigator: a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship by the European Commission and VENI and Hestia grants by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Lilian is member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Refugee Law published by Oxford University Press and deputy coordinator of the Academic Network for Legal Studies on Immigration and Asylum in Europe, the ‘Odysseus Network’. She obtained her PhD from the Law Faculty and the Institute for European Studies of the ULB (December 2016).

Her research lies at the intersection of EU Law, Public International Law, and public policy/administration with a focus on human rights, asylum, migration, and governance theories. Lilian combines legal analysis with empirical qualitative research methods. She was the first scholar to systematically examine EU’s asylum policy from a combined perspective of EU constitutional and administrative law, as well as public policy governance theories. She analysed underexplored elements of asylum administrative governance, including adaptations instigated by the ‘migration crisis’, such as joint implementation patterns through EU agencies and the emergence of more significant forms EU funding.

She has published her research widely (60 scientific publications) in the form of books, book chapters and international peer reviewed journals e.g. Common Market Law Review,

Human Rights Law Review, European Constitutional Law Review, German Law Journal, European Journal of Risk Regulation, International Journal of Refugee Law. She has co- edited a Research Handbook Research Handbook on EU Migration and Asylum Law (co-editor with P. De Bruycker, Edward Elgar, 2022), two books exploring the boundaries of refugee law: current protection challenges (co-editor with J.P. Gaucci and M. Giuffré, Brill 2015), and Intertwining Criminal Justice and Immigration Control in the EU: Theoretical, Interdisciplinary, and Practical Perspectives (Routledge, forthcoming 2024), as well as four special journal issues (Refugee Survey Quarterly 2016; Maastricht Journal on European and Comparative Law 2017; European Papers 2022; and Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, forthcoming 2024).

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