Zoi Lafazani

Zoi Lafazani

Teaching Assistant

Areas of expertise

International Humanitarian Law  /  International Criminal Law  /  Use of Force  /  Public International Law  /  International Human Rights Law

Zoi Lafazani is a Teaching Assistant at the Geneva Academy, a Teaching and Research Assistant at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva and a PhD candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

Her doctoral research focuses on the complex legal landscape regulating the use of armed force in occupied territories and on questions of conflict classification.

She previously worked as an Associate and as a Legal Adviser at the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and as an intern at Geneva Call.

Zoi holds an LLM from the Geneva Academy, from where she received the Best LLM Paper Award for 2019, and a Law Degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Russian and Greek and has a basic knowledge of Arabic.

Publications

Interstate use of armed force in third states: what are the implications for conflict classification?

2024

Zoi Lafazani

EJIL

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Human shields under IHL: a path towards excessive legalization

2021

Zoi Lafazani

ICRC

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