Maria-Louiza Deftou

About/Bio

Dr Maria-Louiza Deftou is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a Research Fellow at the Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights. She is also an active researcher at the Athens Public International Law Center (AthensPIL). Her work lies on the field of international human rights law with a particular emphasis on the interplay between human rights and other fields of law (e.g. migration law, law of the sea, environmental law et al.).

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Breaking New Ground: Climate Change before the Strasbourg Court

An ocean of ink has been already spilt for the long-awaited judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland, the Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Others and the Carême v. France case (see inter alia here,…

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