Miss Aphrodite Yiasemi

Lecturer in Law

Aphrodite Yiasemi
  • School Faculty of Business and Law

  • Department Law and Social Sciences

  • Location London

Research activities

The focus of Aphrodite’s research is a critical re-evaluation ofthe protection of human rights within the European Union with particularanalysis of the proposed accession of the EU to the European Convention ofHuman Rights and Freedoms. Since negotiations between the CoE and the EU wererestarted in 2020, Aphrodite intends to compare my proposed solutions with thecurrent proposed solutions of the negotiating parties. The comparison will beaimed at demonstrating that the current negotiations do not address theexisting issues as found by the CJEU in Opinion 2/13, but rathercreate further problems of compatibility with the EU legal order.

AnnualHuman Rights Seminar on the Cypriot Conflict In collaboration with LBB and theBarnet Twin Town Morphou, Cyprus at Middlesex University London and the officeof the High Commissioner for Cyprus in the UK. The aim is to spread knowledgeand awareness for an ongoing issue which has plagued Cyprus for 50 years, yethas garnered very little international attention. Aphrodite has particularlyfocused on Property Rights under Protocol 1 Article 1 to the ECHR and Erticle 8RCHR. Specifically, Aphrodite has researched the topic of time and its impacton the approach of the ECtHR on the rights attached to a family home.


Current Teaching

LLB:

The English Legal System

Human Rights in the UK

LLM:

International Human Rights Law

LLM supervision


Biography

Aphrodite Yiasemi is a lecturer in law at the Middlesex UniversitySchool of Law, having joined in 2020. She was previously an LLM and LLB tutorat Queen Mary University of London, where she taught Law of Contract, Contractlaw for Business and the English Legal System amongst other topics. Sincejoining the Middlesex University School of Law Aphrodite has led the modules ofAdvanced Issues in EU law and Politics and English Legal System andInternational Human Rights LLM.

Aphrodite obtained her LL.B from Exeter University and her LL.M inEuropean and International Law from the University of Ghent, Belgium and iscompleting her PhD at Queen Mary University of London.

Aphrodite is a qualified Advocate at Law at the Cyprus Bar, havingpracticed in banking law and having worked on cases with particular focus on EUlaw and the European Central Bank.

Aphrodite is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2024). 

Qualifications

Title: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Date: 20 Jan 2024

Institution: Advance Higher Education


Title: Advocate at he Cyprus Bar

Date: 02 Dec 2016

Institution: The Cyprus Bar Association


Title: LLM

Date: 01 Sept 2015

Institution: University of Ghent


Title: LLB

Date: 31 Jul 2014

Institution: University of Exeter


Title: PhD

Notes: Pending

Institution: Queen Mary University of London


Publications