Expert on Europe

Dr Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifánova is a Senior Research Fellow at the newly established Rule of Law Clinic at Central European University’s Democracy Institute, a project funded by Stiftung Mercator. She is also a Research Affiliate with the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London. She received a PhD in Law from Queen Mary University of London and has taught courses, given guest lectures and held fellowships at numerous institutions, including London School of Economics (LSE), Forum Transregionale Studien (Berlin), Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Centre of Law and Society at Cardiff University. Her area of expertise lies within the field of European and comparative migration, asylum, and nationality law, with a particular focus on family migration and access to international protection. She has published extensively in these areas, including a monograph The Concept of Marriages of Convenience in EU Free Movement Law: EU and UK Perspectives (Brill, 2024). Her research interests currently focus on the EU-Belarus border crisis and the implications of EU migration policies for Iraqi nationals, particularly of Kurdish/Ezidi background.