Despaux, Maeva

Maéva Despaux holds a PhD in Public Law in France and in Spain, obtained through an international cotutorship between the University of Toulouse Capitole and Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). Her dissertation, supervised by Professors Joël Andriantsimbazovina and Sílvia Morgades-Gil, examined “The Right to Access International Protection in the European Union: A Study of the Impact of Article 18 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights on Accessing a Territory and an Asylum Procedure.”

During her doctoral studies, she completed a six-month research stay at the European Court of Human Rights, where she contributed substantially to the drafting of a case-law guide on Article 14 of the ECHR and Article 1 of Protocol No. 12 on the prohibition of discrimination.

She currently teaches International Law and European Union Law at Pompeu Fabra University, where she is a member of the Public International Law and International Relations Research Group and of GRITIM (Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration). Her research focuses primarily on EU asylum law and European and international human rights law.