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Ms V. (Vigjilenca) Abazi


  • Faculty of Law
  • Oudemanhuispoort  4-6
    1012 CN  Amsterdam
  • V.Abazi@uva.nl
    T:  0205253079

Current Position

Vigjilenca Abazi is a Ph.D. Researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance since September 2011. She is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School. 

Her research project with the working title Secrecy in the European Union: The Law and Practice of the Classification System, focuses on secrecy and its implications for democracy in the context of the European Union.  

Vigjilenca Abazi lectures European Union law at the University of Amsterdam. She actively engages in presentations and lectures including at Columbia University and The New School, USA; University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Bocconi University, Italy; and Tilburg University, the Netherlands. 

She has been an Associate Managing Editor for European Constitutional Law Review and a Managing Editor for the ACELG blog. 

 

Background

Vigjilenca Abazi obtained a Bachelor's degree in Law at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia (LLB, 2010, with highest praise) and did her Master's degree in International and European Law at the University of Amsterdam (LLM, 2011, top 10 percent of the class). In addition, she attended Summer Schools in the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute, Italy (2012) and the University of Graz, Austria (2009).

Specialised in the field of European Union law yet, Vigjilenca has wide-ranging interests shown by her work as a research assistant during her master studies in the topic of State Responsibility at the Department of Public International & European Law as well as her previous research appointment with the International Committee of the Red Cross regarding International Humanitarian Law.

Besides her professional commitments, Vigjilenca has been strongly engaged in health education and humanitarian action with the Macedonian Red Cross for more than seven years. She was the first junior volunteer to hold the position of Member of the Executive Board in the Red Cross City Skopje. During her research stay in New York City, Vigjilenca actively participates in the non-profit One To World's 'Global Classroom' programme, engaging in interactive workshops with high school students in Bronx and Brooklyn.  

Research Interests

  • Constitutional and Institutional Law of the EU 
  • Area of Freedom, Security and Justice 
  • EU Foreign Relations Law 

Supervision

  • Master Thesis 'International Police Cooperation: Europol's Operational Agreements' by P. Mourozidis  
  • Bachelor Thesis 'Intellectual Property Rights and Freedom of Expression in the European Union' by S. de Meza

2014

  • V. Abazi (2014). Private actors in the 'Wiki-leaks 'world' - changing boundaries of traditional secrecy. In A. McCann, M. van Rooij, A. Hallo de Wolf & R. Neerhof (Eds.), When private actors contribute to public interests: a law and governance perspective (Governance & recht, 10) (pp. 179-200). Den Haag: Eleven international publishing.
  • V. Abazi (2014). The future of Europol's parliamentary oversight: a great leap forward? German law journal: review of developments in German, European and international jurisprudence, 15 (6), 1121-1144.[go to publisher's site]

2013

  • V. Abazi (2013). Unveiling the Power over Europol's Secrets. (Preprints, Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance working paper series, no 2013-04). Amsterdam: Amsterdam Centre of European Law and Governance, University of Amsterdam.

2015

  • V. Abazi (2015, January 30). Secrecy and its Democratic Challenges in the European Union. University of Copenhagen, Postgraduate Law Conference.

2014

  • V. Abazi (2014, May 5). Secrecy in the European Union. Visiting Scholar Forum, Columbia Law School.
  • V. Abazi (2014, May 16). Secrecy as a Democratic Dilemma: Perspectives from the EU and US Practice. The New School, Fulbright New York Salon.
  • V. Abazi (2014, December 10). European Intelligence Cooperation in Times of Crisis. Brussels, Belgium, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.

2013

  • R.E. Tauschinsky & V. Abazi (2013, October 26). Control is Good, Trust is Better. HEC Paris, 3rd Global Conference on Transparency Research.

2012

  • V. Abazi (2012, September 24). PhD Research Secrecy in the European Union: The Law and Practice of the Classification System. Maastricht, Ius Commune Research School, Seminar, University of Maastricht.
  • V. Abazi (2012, October 5). Secrecy: Policy Depths and Dimensions in the European Union. University of Amsterdam, Alumni Day Faculty of Law.
  • V. Abazi (2012, October 4). Classifying Documents to Keep the European Union Safe? The Case of Europol. University of Copenhagen, Colloquium ‘Transparency and National Security’.

Andere

  • V. Abazi (2015). Panel 'Secrecy and its Democratic Challenges in the European Union: The cases of Security and Economic Governance'. 22nd International Conference of Europeanists: Sciences Po Paris.
  • V. Abazi, N.J. de Boer, M.Z. Hillebrandt & D. Curtin (2013). Secrecy and the European Union: A Democratic Perspective. Workshop: Amsterdam (2013, June 20 - 2013, June 20).

Spreker

  • V. Abazi (2014, January 15). EU-US Relations after Snowden: Data, Democracy, Security. Amsterdam, Spui25.
  • V. Abazi (2014, October 22). Challenging Secrecy: Perspectives from the EU and US Practice. Harvard Law School, Lecture.
  • V. Abazi (). Executive Discretion and Parliamentary Oversight in Europol: a mismatch? Bocconi University, Italy, Invited Lecture.
  • V. Abazi (). Executive Discretion and Parliamentary Oversight in Europol: a mismatch? Tilburg University, The Netherlands, Invited Lecture.

Tijdschriftredactie

  • V. Abazi (Ed.). (2013) European Constitutional Law Review, 2013/3.
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