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Dr. Eleni Polymenopoulou
Associate Professor
Dr. Eleni Polymenopoulou
Associate Professor
Educational Qualifications
Doctorate (PhD) in Human Rights Law/International Law
Master in ‘History, Law & Human Rights’
Entity
College of Law
Biography
Eleni Polymenopoulou is an Associate Professor at the College of Law at Hamad Bin Khalifa University and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She holds a diploma in Law from the University of Athens and a Master in Law and PhD in Human Rights Law/International Law from the University of Grenoble-Alpes (France).
Before her current appointment, she practiced law and collaborated with several NGOs, including the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR), Article 19 (on freedom of expression) and the International Press Institute (IPI). Eleni also holds a diploma in Applied Arts, Comics and Illustration (Athens) and has published books as a children’s book author and illustrator. In 2019, she received an honorary research fellowship award at University College London (UCL-Qatar) for her project on cultural heritage and Islamic law and a research grant in 2022 to set up the ‘Art and Law’ Lab at VCUarts – Qatar (with Prof. Radha Dalal).
Her most recent published book is Artistic Freedom in International Law (CUP 2023). Currently, she is working on a monograph on Cultural Heritage Law in the Arabian Gulf: An International and Comparative Law Perspective.
Doctorate (PhD) in Human Rights Law/International Law
University of Grenoble, France and the University of Athens co-supervising
2011
Master in ‘History, Law & Human Rights’
University of Grenoble, France
2004
Degree in Law
National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
2003
- Public international law
- International human rights law
- Cultural rights and heritage
- Islamic law and legal systems
Lecturer in Law
Brunel Law School, Brunel University
2012 - 2018
- Polymenopoulou, E. (forthcoming). Sharia and human rights law in the constitutional framework of Gulf States. Human Rights Quarterly, 46 (1).
- Polymenopoulou, E. (forthcoming) Rembrandt’s Missing piece: AI Art and the Fallacies of Copyright Law. Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts.
Complete Publication Listing(s): Academia | Google Scholar | Research Gate
- 2022: Co-PI in Managing Social Transformation in Qatar: Risks, Trends and Future Trajectories (co-PI – LPI is Dr. Anis Ben Brik, College of Public Policy, HBKU )
- 2020: Honorary Senior Research Fellowship at University College London (UCL) – Qatar, Arts and cultural heritage in the Islamic legal tradition
- 2015: Seminar Series award, ‘Culture on the move: migration, living traditions and cultural heritage protection’, awarded by Brunel University London
- 2013: Pilot Project on gender and human rights in the Muslim South-Asia (India & Bangladesh), awarded by Brunel University London
- 2009: PhD Laureate 2009, grant awarded by the ‘Heinrich Klebès Association for the Promotion of Human Rights and democracy in Europe’, France