Anna Ventouratou

Anna is a Lecturer in International Trade Law at the University of Sheffield. She has studied law at the University of Oxford (DPhil; MPhil; MJur), the University of Athens (LLM in Public International Law; LLB), and Columbia Law School (Fulbright-Schuman Visiting Scholar), and she is admitted to practice law in Greece. Before joining Sheffield, she taught Public International Law as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and tutor in law at the University of Oxford, and she worked as a researcher on several projects relating to diverse areas of public international law. She completed her legal traineeship at a leading criminal law firm in Athens, Greece and she worked as a trainee at the Legal Service of the European Commission (CFSP and external relations team). Her doctoral dissertation at the University of Oxford was on ‘General Defences in International Adjudication’ and explored the applicability of the defences enshrined in Part I, Chapter V of the Articles of the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts in disputes before the ICJ, the WTO dispute settlement system, and investment arbitral tribunals. Her current research projects focus on the legality of economic sanctions and on issues relating to gender and trade.