Dr Kyriaki Pavlidou

Kyriaki (Korina) Pavlidou is an Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Law at the University of Nicosia Medical School in Athens.

Dr Pavlidou holds a PhD in law (highest honours) from Freie Universität Berlin, where she conducted research in the context of the German Research Foundation’s (DFG) interdisciplinary doctoral and postdoctoral programme Human Rights under Pressure: Law, Politics and Ethics. She has an LLM in Human Rights from University College London, and a Postgraduate Degree of Specialisation in History, Sociology, and Philosophy of Law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Pavlidou has taught postgraduate and undergraduate modules on legal theory and comparative law, human rights and anti-discrimination law, and ethics and social law at Democritus University of Thrace and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and has delivered visiting lectures at various institutions across Europe.

She has been awarded visiting fellowships at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne and the lucernaiuris Institut in Lucerne, and has gained extensive research training from various programmes such as the Harvard Law School Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) Scholars Workshop, the Academy of European Law at European University Institute, and the Venice Academy of Human Rights, among others.

Pavlidou has worked at the European Economic and Social Committee in Belgium and as a legal practitioner in Greece. Her published works address topics such as pluralism, the ethics of care and vulnerability theory, and ethical dimensions of law in contexts of inequality and in social rights theory. Pavlidou’s ongoing research engages with recent debates at the intersection of law and ontology and research ethics. She is particularly interested in process philosophy as a methodological and conceptual framework, and in theory of individuation drawing from multiple fields, including law, philosophy of biology, and the life and health sciences.