phd
 

PhD Thesis Title: Foxes Guarding the Henhouse: Inter-State Litigation based on Humanitarian Interests

PhD Supervisor: Professor Janne Nijman
 

Profile
 

Myrto Stavridi holds a law degree from the Law School of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens (2016) and an LL.M. in Public International Law with honors from the same university (2019-2020). She also holds a master’s degree in international law from the Geneva Graduate Institute (2024-2025).

As a student, Myrto completed internships at the European Court of Human Rights (2016) and the Liaison Office of the Council of Europe to the European Union in Brussels (2015).

Myrto was admitted to the Athens Bar Association in 2019. She practiced civil and administrative law in Greece, including collaborating on cases submitted to the European Court of Human Rights. She worked for The AIRE Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe Centre) as a Project Assistant and subsequently as Legal Project Coordinator for the EuroBrits project, assisting UK nationals in retaining their residence rights in Bulgaria, Greece, and Norway following Brexit. Myrto also served as a Legal and Administrative Coordinator of the Refugee and Migration Studies Hub of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. 

From 2017 to 2023, Myrto coached the team of undergraduate students representing the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens at the European Human Rights Moot Court Competition (now renamed Helga Pedersen Moot Court Competition), helping them achieve multiple distinctions, including 3rd and 2nd places, and individual best orator awards.

Since 2024, Myrto has collaborated as a research assistant with Yusra Suedi, Lecturer in International Law at the University of Manchester, and in 2025, she worked with Umut Yildirim, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Geneva Graduate Institute.
 

Publications and Works
 

• Yusra Suedi and Myrto Stavridi, ‘The European Court of Human Rights and the International Court of Justice as Comparable Erga Omnes Partes Regimes’ International Community Law Review (accepted/forthcoming)
• Myrto Stavridi, ‘The Advisory Function of the International Court of Justice: Are States Resorting to Advisory Proceedings as a “Soft” Litigation Strategy?’ (2024) Journal of Public and International Affairs 201
• Myrto Stavridi, ‘Inter-State Applications under the European Convention on Human Rights’ Research Paper no. 2/2021, AthensPIL – Athens Public International Law Center 
• Myrto Stavridi, ‘Slovenia v. Croatia: A New Admissibility Criterion for Inter-State Applications under the European Convention on Human Rights?’ (EJIL:Talk!, January 2021)
• Myrto Stavridi, ‘Democracy, Hate Speech, and President Trump’ (2019) 12(2) De Jure 21 (in Greek)
   

Areas of expertise
 

• Public International Law

• International Human Rights Law

• International Dispute Settlement

• History and Theory of International Law
   

Awards
 

• Honorable mention of LL.M. thesis entitled “Inter-State applications under the European Convention on Human Rights” by the Hellenic Society of International Law and International Relations (2022)
• Award of Excellence for graduating first in class from the LL.M. in Public International Law (2019-2020), Law School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• Member of the winning team of the European Human Rights Moot Court Competition (now renamed Helga Pedersen Moot Court Competition) and Best Orator award (2014-5)