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Flávia Oliveira Ribeiro

Flávia graduated in Law from the São Paulo State University (Brazil) in 2020 with a thesis on “Brazilian Migration Policy: A Human Rights Perspective in the Face of the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism”. In the same year, she was admitted to the Brazilian Bar. In 2023, she received her Master’s Degree in Law from the São Paulo State University with the thesis “Between Constitutional Protection and Legal Protection: A Jurisprudential Analysis of the Rights of Migrants in Brazil”. She received a national scholarship (CAPES) for her Master’s degree. As an additional training, Flávia attended the course on International Refugee Law at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law (Sanremo, Italy) (2023) and the Pre-College Program in International Politics and Law at Boston University (USA) (2010).

Her professional experience includes a judicial clerkship, volunteering at the Caritas Refugee Welcome and Counseling Service in São Paulo (Brazil), and working as a teaching assistant on International Refugee Law, and working as part of a human rights curatorial team. As a researcher, she contributed to the organization of events such as the 2023 United Nations Global Refugee Forum in Geneva (Switzerland) within the Global Academic Interdisciplinary Network (GAIN) and the 19th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) Conference in 2022, for which she received the UNHCR Sérgio Vieira de Mello Academic Chair Award.

Since 2024 she is a research assistant at the Academy for European Human Rights Protection at the University of Cologne and is writing her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Professor Dr. DDr. h.c. Angelika Nußberger M.A.

Research Areas

  • Public International and European Law
  • International Human Rights Law
  • International Refugee Law
  • International Humanitarian Law

Current Research Project

Flávia is currently writing her PhD thesis on the criminalization of humanitarian assistance in the Mediterranean.

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Contact

Flávia Oliveira Ribeiro
PhD Candidate and Research Assistant

Kerpener Str. 30
50937 Köln

Telephone +49 221 470 76281
E-mail flavia.oliveira(at)uni-koeln.de


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