Galina Kostadinova
DPhil Law
Galina Kostadinova is pursuing a DPhil in Law under the supervision of Prof Sandra Fredman. Her research explores the legal and political dimensions of the plight of Roma in the European Union.
Galina is a legal consultant on EU citizens’ rights at Your Europe Advice, a public service run by the European Commission. She has wide-ranging experience in human rights advocacy before international bodies such as the European Commission, Council of Europe, OSCE, and UN from her previous work for the Minority Rights GroupInternational (MRG) and the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice. Galina won the 2008 GTA in EU law at Oxford’s Law Faculty and subsequently ran tutorials and seminars to undergraduate students at Exeter College, Oxford.
She holds an MPhil degree in EU Studies from the University of Cambridge as well as a law degree from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria.
Publications
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‘UK policy on Romanian, Bulgarian students is illegal,’ EurActiv, 4 Jan 2013, available at: http://www.euractiv.com/justice/uk-policy-romanian-bulgarian-stu-analysis-516861
‘Last ditch chance for EU to deal with Roma issue’, EU Observer, 8 Nov 2011, available at: http://euobserver.com/opinion/114214
‘Minority Rights as a Normative Framework for Addressing the Situation of Roma in Europe’, Oxford Development Studies, Volume 39, Issue 2, 2011, available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600818.2011.570864
Promoting the Rights of Minority Children and Women: A Review of UNICEF’s Policies and Practices, London: MRG/UNICEF 2010 (with Marc Lattimer and Heather Labanya), available at: http://www.unicef.org/policyanalysis/rights/files/UNICEF_MRG_Report.pdf
Pushing for Change? South East Europe’s Minorities in the EU Progress Reports, London: MRG 2008 (with Snjezana Bokulic), available at: www.minorityrights.org/download.php?id=523
Substantial Equality, Positive Action, and Roma Rights in the European Union, London: MRG 2006, available at: www.minorityrights.org/download.php?id=65
The EU Policies on Roma in Central and Eastern Europe, MPhil Thesis, Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 2006.
Interests
Research: EU law, Free Movement of Persons in the EU, International Human Rights Law, Minority Rights, Anti-Discrimination Law, Jurisprudence.
