Vilija Vėlyvytė
Lithuania
Law (DPhil), 2017
Brasenose College, Oxford
Funding: Louis Dreyfus-Roland Berger
Vilija is currently the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Law Faculty, University of Oxford. Previously, she conducted research at the Jean Monnet Center at NYU School of Law as the Emile Noël Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2017–2018).
Vilija completed her DPhil in EU Law in 2017 at the University of Oxford, thanks to the Weidenfeld-Roland Berger Scholarship and Oxford Law Faculty funding. She has published a paper based on a chapter of her doctoral thesis in the Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy (2016) and is in the process of developing the thesis into a monograph. During her doctorate, she also held a lectureship in EU Law at Oxford, teaching at five colleges.
As a Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld Scholar, she graduated with Distinction from the Magister Juris (2012) and from the MPhil in Law (2013). Her MPhil thesis focused on the status of the right to strike in the EU after accession to the European Convention on Human Rights. It was published in two separate publications: as a chapter in M Freedland and J Prassl (eds), EU Law in the Member States: Viking, Laval and Beyond (Hart Publishing 2014), and an article in Human Rights Law Review (2015).
Vilija completed her Bachelor of Laws (2008) and Master in International Law (2010) degrees at the Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius, Lithuania where she graduated first in her class for both degrees.
Vilija is currently based in Oxford, UK.
