Katerina Linos | |
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Born | Κατερίνα Λινού October 10, 1979 |
Citizenship | United States, Greece |
Title | Irving G. and Eleanor D. Tragen Professor of Law |
Awards | 2017 Carnegie Fellowship[2] |
Academic background | |
Education | Harvard University (BA, JD, PhD) |
Thesis | Diffusion of Social Policies Across OECD Countries[1] (2007) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Law, political science |
Sub-discipline | International law, Human Rights Law |
Institutions | UC Berkeley School of Law |
Website | https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/katerina-linos/ |
Katerina Linos is an American legal scholar. She is the Co-Faculty Director of Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law at UC Berkeley.[3] Her academic interests include international law, comparative law, European Union law, employment law, and migration law.[2]
Linos completed her Bachelor of Arts in government at Harvard College in 2000, where she graduated magna cum laude. In 2002, She received a diploma in European Union law at European University Institute. She then continued her study at Harvard, graduated with a JD and PhD in Political Science in 2006 and 2007 respectively.[3]
Linos is best known for her scholarship on policy diffusion. In her 2013 book "The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion," she argues that policy ideas spread not only through technocratic networks, but also through democratic processes.[4] In 2017, Linos has been awarded a Carnegie Fellowship to study the European migrant crisis. Her UC Berkeley & UC Davis collaborative interactive data project, "Digital Refugee," tells the story of the migrant crisis from the perspective of refugees themselves, using over 10,000 Facebook post and 6,000 interview data with refugees.[5][6] In 2021, Linos begins hosting "Borderlines," a podcast covering cutting edge issues in international law.[7] Past guests include European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager[8] and European Court of Justice Judge Thomas von Danwitz.[9]