Roxani Fragkou

In 2005 she obtained her Master’s Degree in Public Law at the University Robert Schuman in Strasbourg and in 2010 she completed her PhD studies in Public Law at the University of Strasbourg (PhD thesis: Euthanasia and the right to refuse medical treatment in respect to the evolution of European comparative law (France, Greece, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and United Kingdom)). In 2015, she undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the Faculty of Law of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (research field: Assisted reproduction and protection of the in vitro embryo). She has worked at the Faculty of Law and the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Strasbourg contributing to the teaching of Public Law, Constitutional Law and Political Institutions in France and the Comparative Law (2009-2012), while from 2011 to 2014 she taught Applied Ethics. References and foundation: References in bioethics at the European Center for the Study and Teaching of Ethics (CEERE) of the University of Strasbourg. Currently, she is a legal advisor with the Greek National Commission for Human Rights (GNCHR), she is completing a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Faculty of Law of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (State Scholarships Foundation, IKY) on the National Human Rights Institutions’ (NHRIs) contribution to the promotion of human rights and she teaches law at the Hellenic Open University, as well as at the Open University of Cyprus. She is author of several papers, studies and jurisprudence notes published in Greek, English and French peer-reviewed journals.