Mónica Ávila Currás, LL.M.

Mónica Ávila Currás is a Research Associate and doctoral candidate in the MeDiMi project “Who is empowered by Strasbourg? Migrants and States before the ECtHR”. She is currently working on her PhD thesis “Joining Forces on Migration? A Systematic Analysis of European States’ Third-party Interventions before the ECtHR” at the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). She has been teaching Fundamental Rights in Europe in the Bachelor of Law’s program and supervising Bachelor’s thesis at the VU. Mónica has worked as a coordinator and as an asylum lawyer for a non-governmental organization in Spain, specializing in gender-based asylum claims. She has participated in printed and audiovisual media, as well as in conferences, governmental panels, and trainings conducted by UNHCR and NGOs. She studied the Bachelor of Law, the Bachelor of Business Administration and a Masters program in International Solidarity Action and Inclusion at the Carlos III University in Madrid (Spain) and is trained in gender violence, statistics, and project management.

Contact: m.avila.curras@vu.nl