Dr Anastasia Karatzia

Biography

After completing her PhD studies at University of Surrey, Anastasia was Assistant Professor in EU law at Erasmus University Rotterdam before joining Essex School of Law in 2017. She is a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy since 2015. She is currently leading, together with Dr. Niall O'Connor, the University of Essex team in the Horizon-funded project "EU-CIEMBLY: Creating an Inclusive Citizens' Assembly". The 4-year project addresses the need for the introduction of new forms of citizens’ participation and deliberation in EU political life. In particular, it seeks to propose a model Citizens’ Assembly whose design and implementation fully addresses issues of intersectionality, inclusiveness, and equality. Anastasia's research focuses on two streams: Citizens' participation in European law and decision-making (with a focus on the European Citizens' Initiative), and financial/ banking law. Her doctoral thesis examined in depth the legal framework of the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI), and the operation of this participatory mechanism in practice. Her research on the ECI and especially the link between the ECI and the European Parliament was recently cited by Advocate General Bobek in Case C‑418/18 P (2019). She has also researched extensively the litigation surrounding the Cyprus bail-in of 2013, and has written on the European Stability Mechanism and the Eurogroup. Anastasia has published research on the legal framework of the European Citizens' Initiative; the litigation surrounding the European Citizens' Initiative; the transparency of the European Central Bank; the post-eurozone crisis litigation; the role of the Commission and the ECB in the European Stability Mechanism; and the legal nature of the Eurogroup. Her latest article looks at the the constitutional implications of the Court of Justice of the European Union’s involvement in the resolution of disputes after Brexit. She is a member of the EU Law Live Law Experts Network where she often publishes Op-Eds on current CJEU judgments. She has worked in the FP-7-funded project Rediclaim, and in consulting projects for the European Parliament, and she has presented her work on the European Citizens' Initiative at the offices of the European Ombudsman. In May-June 2017 Anastasia was an International Visiting Research Fellow at Liverpool Law School. She is the joint recipient of a scholarship under the European Central Bank Legal Research Programme 2018 for conducting and publishing research on the legal nature of the Memoranda of Understanding signed by the European Central Bank. Anastasia was the last rapporteur for the UK at the International Federation of European Law (FIDE 2021) where she addressed the topic of the role of national courts in the EU legal order. Anastasia is teaching Banking Law at the UG and PGT level and has co-designed the Business Law Clinic and the Customer Welfare project. She welcomes approaches for supervision from prospective PhD students, especially in the fields of EU participatory democracy, the EU Banking Union, particularly on the role of the European Central Bank in the Single Supervisory Mechanism, and on the accountability of institutional actors involved in financial assistance mechanisms.

Qualifications

• PhD in Law University of Surrey, (2015)

• LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law Queen Mary University of London, (2012)

• LLB Law University of Surrey, (2011)

Appointments

Other academic

• Assistant Professor in EU Law, Department of International and EU law, Erasmus University Rotterdam (1/12/2015 - 1/12/2017)

• Research Fellow, REDICLAIM (FP7-funded) project, School of Law, University of Surrey (1/5/2014 - 1/1/2016)

• Associate Lecturer, School of Law, University of Surrey (1/10/2013 - 1/7/2015)