Magdalena is a doctoral researcher at the University of Aberdeen, a faculty member at the University of Nottingham, and a visiting lecturer at the School of International and Advanced Problems of Public Law, University of Gdańsk. Magdalena’s core research concerns citizenship by investment (‘CBI’) in the EU while her expertise includes EU law, human rights and selected areas of public law. Magdalena has worked closely with various international organisations and NGOs due to her policy-oriented research and its practical applications, including the subject of ‘SLAPPs’ as well as women’s reproductive rights. She is a member of the Anti-SLAPP Hub, Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC), International Law and Security Centre (ILSC), several ECPR Groups, and the SLS. She is a former PGR Associate Director of the Aberdeen Centre for Constitutional and Public International Law (‘ACCPIL’).
Shifting Judicial Attitudes and the Promise of Gender Equality: An Analysis of the Dissenting Opinion in the Recent Surrogacy Case Law of the ECtHR – Part 2 (The (Mis)Idea of the Best Interest of the Child & the Meaning of a Family)
Scholars advance the argument that the ECtHR should play an active role in mitigating the issues posed by the blanket ban on surrogacy across European States and the consequential rise of cross-border surrogacy cases. As the Court has ...
Shifting Judicial Attitudes and the Promise of Gender Equality: An Analysis of the Dissenting Opinion in the Recent Surrogacy Case Law of the ECtHR – Part 1 (Intended Mothers & the ‘Just’ Law)
Gender-based equality has been at the heart of the debates on motherhood within the context of surrogacy cases, for ‘intended mothers’ and biological mothers, as well as associated rights and protections where certain asymmetry can be ...
Reproductive Rights and the Judicial Attitudes in Recent Abortion Cases in Strasbourg: Will Women’s Suffering Ever Be ‘Severe’ Enough? Part 2
As discussed in Part 1 of this blog, the European Court of Human Rights did not find a violation of Article 3 of the ECHR (prohibition against torture) in the ML v Poland case. There has since been a debate concerning the Court’s ...
Reproductive Rights and the Judicial Attitudes in Recent Abortion Cases in Strasbourg: Will Women’s Suffering Ever Be ‘Severe’ Enough? Part 1
On 14 December 2023, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) released its ML v Poland judgment. As the ECtHR did not find a violation of Article 3 of the ECHR (prohibition of torture), stating that the severity threshold was not ...
The ML v Poland ‘landmark’ judgment on reproductive rights and the ENNHRI third-party intervention: How ‘landmark’ is it in reality?
On 14 December 2023, in ML v Poland, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) confirmed that Poland’s 2020 Constitutional Court’s decision, resulting in a near-total abortion ban, violated the right to private and family life under ...
Case C-673/20 EP v Préfet du Gers: The Stripping of the Right to Vote
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Ruling of the CJEU
After the request for a preliminary ruling from the French tribunal lodged in 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union held that UK ...
