Dr. Júlia Miklasová
Dr. Júlia Miklasová is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Academy for European Human Rights Protection at the University of Cologne. She obtained her PhD degree (summa cum laude avec félicitation de jury) from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva (IHEID). Her doctoral thesis examined secession in contemporary international law with a special reference to the post-Soviet space. Apart from questions pertaining to the attainment of statehood, her thesis also inquired into the position of non-state secessionist entities in international law.
Júlia was a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, Research Assistant at the Global Migration Centre at the Graduate Institute in Geneva and a Legal Assistant to the Member of the United Nations International Law Commission (ILC) in Geneva. Júlia also previously worked as a junior associate in a law firm and as a project assistant in a regional think-tank. She also represented the Slovak Presidency of the European Union during expert meetings relating to the Espoo Convention in Brussels and Geneva.
Júlia completed a two-year Master Programme in International Law at the Graduate Institute in Geneva as well as BA and MA degrees in law at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. She spent exchange semesters at the Boston University Law School (USA) and the Université Paris Descartes (France).
- Pubic international law with a special focus on law of statehood, territorial disputes, law of international responsibility (including states, IOs and other non-state entities), human rights
- International legal issues pertaining to post-Soviet space
Book
- Júlia Miklasová, Secession in International Law with a Special Reference to the Post-Soviet Space (Brill 2024)
Book Chapters
- Júlia Miklasová, 'Limits to Human Rights Obligations of Secessionist Entities: Protection Gap Uncertainty and Legitimation of Illegality' in K Istrefi, L Pasquet, L Roorda and C Ryngaert (eds) Human Rights Accountability of Non-Universally Recognised States and State-Like Entities (Edward Elgar 2026).
- Júlia Miklasová, Russia-Manufactured ‘Secessions’ in Ukraine: The Attempted Ambiguity of Status, Kosovo, and International Law, in: Contested States in War and Law, p. 83–104, 2025
- Angelika Nußberger/Júlia Miklasová, 'Human Rights Council' in Bruno Simma, Daniel-Erasmus Khan, Georg Nolte, and Andreas Paulus (eds), The Charter of the United Nations: A Commentary (4th edn, OUP 2024)
- Júlia Miklasová, Dissolution of the Soviet Union Thirty Years On: Re-Appraisal of the Relevance of the Principle of Uti Possidetis Iuris in J.E. Viñuales, A. Clapham, L. Boisson de Chazournes and M. Hébié (eds.), The International Legal Order in the XXIst Century / L’ordre juridique international au XXIeme siècle / El órden jurídico internacional en el siglo XXI: Essays in Honour of Professor Marcelo Gustavo Kohen / Ecrits en l’honneur du Professeur Marcelo Gustavo Kohen / Estudios en honor del Profesor Marcelo Gustavo Kohen (Brill, Leiden 2023)
- Júlia Miklasová, Post-Soviet Secession: The Status of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine under International Law in M Kocsis (ed), Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights (Springer, forthcoming) (under review)
- Angelika Nußberger/Júlia Miklasová, Council of Europe as the Guardian of Democracy: The Venice Commission in Daniel Erasmus Khan, Evelyne Lagrange, Stefan Oeter and Christian Walter (eds), Democracy and Sovereignty: Rethinking the Legitimacy of Public International Law (Brill 2022)
- Júlia Miklasová, The Status of Transnistria Under International Law in Kevin M. Gray (ed), Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights (Springer, 2022)
Articles
- Júlia Miklasová and Angelika Nußberger, 'Abkhazia' in: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (OUP 2026).
- Júlia Miklasová and Angelika Nußberger, 'South Ossetia' in: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (OUP 2026).
- Júlia Miklasová, De Facto Entities, in: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (OUP 2026).
- Júlia Miklasová, Russian Approaches to Post-Soviet Secession: Bad Faith Argumentation and Its Limits" (2024) 22 Baltic Yearbook of International Law Online, 64-87
- Júlia Miklasová, Post-Ceasefire Nagorno-Karabakh: Limits to the ECtHR’s Approach to Jurisdiction over Secessionist Entities under the ECHR, (2022) 82 ZaöRV 357-378
- Júlia Miklasová, Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on International Law: How States Use the UN General Assembly to Create International Obligations. By Rossana Deplano, British Yearbook of International Law, 2022
- Júlia Miklasová, Even Immunity Ratione Personae is Subject to Functional Limits: the Strauss-Kahn Case (2016) VI Slovak Yearbook of International Law
Blogposts and Online Articles
- Júlia Miklasová, The Conflation of Jurisdiction and Attribution Tests, the ‘Law,’ and the International Legal Status of Abkhazia and South Ossetia: A Review of Recent ECtHR Case Law (Strasbourg Observers, 23 August 2024)
- Júlia Miklasová, Ukraine v. Russia (re Crimea): Article 6 ECHR in the Context of Russia’s Annexation and Implications for Ukrainian Sovereignty (Strasbourg Observers, 03 July 2024)
- Júlia Miklasová, Mamasakhlisi and Others v. Georgia and Russia: Russia’s Effective Control Over Abkhazia Before the 2008 War: Peacekeepers, Passportisation and Other Hybrid Elements (Strasbourg Observers, 13 June 2023)
- Júlia Miklasová, Russia’s Recognition of the DPR and LPR as Illegal Acts under International Law (Völkerrechtsblog, 24 February 2022)
- Júlia Miklasová, Jurisdiction Over the Post-Ceasefire: Nagorno-Karabakh Under the ECHR (Völkerrechtsblog, 2 September 2021)
- Júlia Miklasová, Military Occupation of Azerbaijan by Armenia’, Rule of Law in Armed Conflict (RULAC Project), Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (update of an online entry, 22 February 2021)
- Júlia Miklasová, Military Occupation of Moldova by Russia, Rule of Law in Armed Conflict (RULAC Project), Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (update of an online entry, 22 February 2021)
- Júlia Miklasová, Military Occupation of Georgia by Russia, Rule of Law in Armed Conflict (RULAC Project), Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (update of an online entry, 22 February 2021)
- Júlia Miklasová, The Recent Ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh: Territorial Control, Peacekeepers and Question of Status (EJIL:Talk!, 4 December 2020)
Newspaper Article
- Júlia Miklasová, Another Episode of Brexit: United Kingdom Announced Its Intention to Violate International Law (Dennik N (Slovak daily), 14 September 2020) (in Slovak)
- American Society of International Law (since 2020)
- European Society of International Law (since 2016)
- International Law Association (since 2017)
- Slovak Society of International Law (since 2013)
- Swiss Society of International Law (since 2020)
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- Visiting Lecturer, Diplomatic Academy, Faculty of Law, Comenius University, Bratislava (Slovakia) 2015-2020
- Junior Visiting Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna (Austria) October-December 2019
- Research Assistant, Global Migration Centre, Graduate Institute, Geneva (Switzerland) April 2017- August 2018
- Legal Assistant, UN International Law Commission, Geneva (Switzerland), assistantship with Professor Pavel Šturma, Member of the ILC (68th-70th sessions) 2016-2018
- Expert (Working Group on EIA/SEA: Espoo Convention), Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic (during the Slovak Presidency of the EU Council) (Geneva/Brussels) July-December 2016
- Project Coordinator (External), Globsec (regional think-tank) (Brussels/Bratislava) September 2015-December 2016
- Project Assistant Globsec (regional think-tank, previously CEPI) Bratislava (Slovakia) November 2014-September 2015
- Junior Associate in a law firm, ANGER & WERNER, Bratislava (Slovakia) August 2011-August 2012