Emellin
De Oliveira

Emellin de Oliveira is a Researcher at the Research Centre on Law and Society (CEDIS, NOVA School of Law), Coordinator and Lecturer of the Postgraduate Course in Immigration and Nationality Law (Jurisnova & NOVA School of Law), Guest Lecturer at the University of Coimbra (European Studies) and a PhD candidate at NOVA School of Law. She is also a Senior Lawyer, whose preferred areas of practice are immigration, asylum and nationality law, as well as human rights litigation. In addition, Emellin is a member of the "International Migration and International Law Committee" of the International Law Association, representing the Portuguese Society of International Law, and she is part of the MoveS network, as a national expert (Portugal) in intra-EU mobility. Since February 2022, she has been on the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA, formerly EASO) List of Experts. Emellin is a Co-founder and Executive Coordinator of the NOVA Asylum Policy Lab (NOVA FCSH) and a member of the Observatory of Personal Data Protection (NOVA School of Law), where she is in charge of the "Digital Borders - Data Protection, Surveillance and Third Country Nationals in EU" Research Line activities. Her research interests focus on migration, asylum, databases for third-country nationals, security, border control and human rights.