Sahar Maranlou is a Lecture in Law at University of Essex, School of Law and Human Rights Centre. She is a socio-legal academic, specialising in access to justice, legal empowerment and public understanding of law. She is the author of ‘Access to Justice in Iran: Women, Perceptions, and Reality’ (Cambridge University Press, 2015) that looks at access to justice, perceptions of law, gender and legal empowerment in Iran. Before joining the Essex, Sahar was the Sassakawa Peace Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow working on access to justice and legal empowerment in Iran and Turkey at University of Oxford. Prior to that, she was a visiting lecture at University of Brunel, Warwick University. Her academic teaching started at the Mofid Law School, Iran, where she developed a new module about access to justice with focus on clinical legal education and consequently co-founded the first national university based clinic in 2006. Since then, she has helped several Iranian law schools to establish their clinical legal education program. She has worked with UN agencies such as UNDP, UNICEF on national empowerment projects in Iran .She is a regular contributor to the debate on Iranian legal system with several articles in national newspapers.
REGIONAL COORDINATOR - MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (MENA)
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Achilles Emilianides is a Professor, Dean of the School of Law at the University of Nicosia, and a practising advocate, senior partner of the law firms Achilles & Emile, Constantinos Emilianides LLC and A&E C. Emilianides, C. Katsaros and Associates LLC. He holds a PhD in Law and an LLM from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an LLM from Leicester University. He has been elected as a founding member and first Secretary-General of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts and as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the Chair of the Royal Commonwealth Society Cyprus Branch. He has been invloved in high profile civil litigation, as well as legal consultancy and funded research. During the Cypriot Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2012 he acted as the Chairman of two working groups of the European Council. Recent major publications include: Religion and Law in Cyprus (3rd, Kluwer, 2019), Constitutional Law in Cyprus (2nd, Kluwer 2019), Family and Succession Law in Cyprus (2nd, Kluwer 2019), Labour Law in Cyprus (2nd, Kluwer, 2019), Media Law in Cyprus (2nd, Kluwer, 2019).
