Dr. Sofia Galani has been an Assistant Professor of International Law at Panteion University since 2021. Previously, she served at the University of Bristol Law School, where she was appointed Lecturer in 2015 and promoted to Assistant Professor in 2019, having initially joined as a Teaching Assistant in 2013.
She is the author of the monograph Hostages and Human Rights: Towards a Human-Rights Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and the co-editor, alongside Sir Malcolm Evans OBE, of the collective volume Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea: Help or Hindrance? (Edward Elgar, 2020). She has published more than thirty studies on topics related to the law of the sea, maritime security, human rights, and terrorism. Her new book, Human Rights and the Law of the Sea (Edward Elgar), co-authored with Sir Malcolm Evans OBE and Dr. Reece Lewis, is forthcoming.
Dr. Galani has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses at universities in England, Germany, and Japan and has conducted research on terrorism at research centers in Israel. Since 2017, she has been a Scientific Advisor to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on maritime security and the prevention of maritime crimes. She is a Board Member of the NGO Human Rights at Sea and a scientific advisor for the preparation of the Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea.
