Dr Lilija Alijeva is Presidential Fellow at the City Law School, University of London. Her research focuses on the human rights of national, ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities. Her current research projects focus on the way international justice institutions and International Organisations protect minorities and their rights. She is part of the Minority Rights Solidarity Network steering group, which is a network of academics and practitioners working in the field of minority rights protection.
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Lilija is Presidential Fellow at the City Law School at City St George's (University of London) and Associate Editor at the International Journal of Human Rights. She recently completed her PhD in Law and Political Science at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her doctoral thesis analyses the implementation of the right to effective public participation in post-Soviet Estonia and Latvia for minorities. Currently, she is researching the latest developments in the international minority rights protection framework.
