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Alina Tryfonidou
Lecturer
LLB LLM AKC PhD (King’s College London); Member of the Cyprus Bar (non-practising)
Email: alina.tryfonidou@le.ac.uk
Dr Alina Tryfonidou joined the School of Law as a Lecturer in September 2007. She was previously teaching European Law as a Visiting Tutor at King’s College London (2005-2007) whilst pursuing her PhD studies at the same institution. Alina obtained her LLB (2001), LLM (2002) and PhD (2008) from King’s College London and is an Associate of King’s College (AKC). She is a non-practising member of the Cyprus Bar since 2003 and a Fellow of the Centre of European Law at King’s College London since 2007. In 2004, Alina completed a traineeship (stage) at the European Commission, at the Internal Market Directorate General.
At Leicester, Alina teaches EU law (module convenor) and Family law on the LLB programme and contributes to the teaching of the Internal Market modules of the Distance Learning LLM in EU Law.
Research Interests
Her main research interests are in the area of European law and, in particular, the law of the European internal market. She is a member of the Centre for European law and Integration (CELI) of the University of Leicester and coordinates the Internal Market research cluster of the Centre.
Selected Publications
- Reverse Discrimination in EC Law (Alphen aan den Rijn, Kluwer Law International, 2009)
- ‘In search of the aim of the EC free movement of persons provisions: Has the Court of Justice missed the point?’, (2009) 46 Common Market Law Review (forthcoming)
- ‘The outer limits of Article 28 EC: Purely internal situations and the development of the Court's approach through the years’ in C. Barnard and O. Odudu (eds), The Outer Limits of European Law (Oxford, Hart, 2009), pp. 197-224
- ‘Family reunification rights of (migrant) Union citizens: Towards a more liberal approach’, (2009) 15 European Law Journal, pp. 634-653
- ‘Reverse discrimination in purely internal situations: An incongruity in a Citizens’ Europe’, (2008) 35(1) Legal Issues of Economic Integration, pp. 43-67
- ‘Jia or ‘‘Carpenter II’’: The edge of reason’, (2007) European Law Review, pp. 908-918
- ‘Was Keck A Half-Baked Solution After All?’, (2007) 34(2) Legal Issues of Economic Integration, pp. 167-182
- Annotation of case C-293/02, Jersey Produce Marketing Organisation Ltd v. States of Jersey and Jersey Potato Export Marketing Board , (2006) 43(6) Common Market Law Review, pp.1727-1742