Dr Heli Askola - Researcher Profile

Biography

Dr Heli Askola has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law from the University of Turku, Finland and a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. Before joining Monash she was Lecturer in Law at Cardiff Law School in the UK and she has done consulting work for the IOM and the European Commission. Her main areas of teaching and research interest are criminal law, EU law (especially Justice and Home Affairs), migration law, international human rights law and feminist legal theory.

Other publications by Dr Askola are available at:
http://ssrn.com/author=781264

Areas of Expertise

Trafficking in human beings
European Union migration law and policy
Gender and law
Criminal Law

Research & Supervision Interests

European Union

Feminist Legal Theory

Gender and Law

International Human Rights Law

Keywords

European Union, Feminist Legal Theory, Gender and Law, International Human Rights Law

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy

Year awarded: 2005

MASTERS BY RESEARCH

Institution: Faculty of Law, University of Turku, Finland

Year awarded: 2000

Publications

Books

Askola, H., 2007, Legal Responses to Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in the European Union, Hart Publishers, Oxford UK.

Book Chapters

Askola, H., 2011, Roma, free movement and gendered exclusion in the enlarged European Union, in Regulating the International Movement of Women: From Protection to Control, eds Sharron A. FitzGerald, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 48-65.

Askola, H., 2010, Globalization and human rights, in An Introduction to International Human Rights Law, eds Aziz Rahman Chowdhury and Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 101-118.

Askola, H., 2009, 'Awkward aliens': Female migrants, exploitation and the trafficking framework, in Gender and Migration in 21st Century Europe, eds Helen Stalford, Samantha Currie and Samantha Velluti, Ashgate, 2009, pp. 163-182.

Journal Articles

Askola, H., 2012, Tale of two citizenships? Citizenship, migration and care in the European Union, Social and Legal Studies [P], vol 21, issue 3, Sage Publications Ltd, London UK, pp. 341-356.

Askola, H., 2011, Cut-off point? Regulating male circumcision in Finland, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family [P], vol 25, issue 1, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, pp. 100-119.

Askola, H., 2010, 'Illegal migrants', gender and vulnerability: the case of the EU's Returns Directive, Feminist Legal Studies [P], vol 18, issue 2, Springer Netherlands, The Netherlands, pp. 159-178.

Askola, H., 2007, Violence against Women, Trafficking and Migration in the European Union, European Law Journal: review of European law in context [E], vol 13, issue 2, Blackwell Publishing Limited, Oxford UK, pp. 204-217.

Teaching Commitment

International Human Rights (Malaysia) 406 (LAW4155)

Introduction to European Union Law 406 (Malaysia) (LAW4161)

Criminal Law and Procedure A (LAW3301)

Overview of International Human Rights Law (LAW7026)