Generate a tailored SOP for Dr. Andrea Varga. Improve your application with a focused, well-structured draft.
Andrea Varga is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Glasgow. She was a Meijers PhD Fellow at Leiden University from 2011 to 2020, where she defended her doctoral dissertation on State Responsibility in the Absence of Effective Government. As part of her PhD research, she spent a semester as a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York. From 2015 to 2018, she worked as a Research Associate at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge on the ESRC-funded Legal Tools for Peace-Making project. In this role, she oversaw the development of the award-winning Language of Peace database, which houses thousands of digitized peace agreements categorized by topic, in collaboration with the UN Mediation Support Unit. Andrea holds a MA in International Relations from Corvinus University of Budapest and an LLM in Public International Law from Leiden University, where she graduated cum laude. Her research interests include issues of state responsibility, secessionist entities under international law, the rights and obligations of non-state actors, intra-state peace agreements, and the interaction of human rights law with general international law, particularly relating to the influence of parties’ pleadings on judicial reasoning in international courts and tribunals. Andrea is currently working on research related to control-based attribution in regional human rights courts and the validity of legal acts by unrecognized entities under the European Convention on Human Rights.