Prof. Stéphanie Laulhé Shaelou has been researching, transmitting knowledge and running externally funded projects in the broad field of European/EU Law and Policy, Governance and Rights at several universities throughout Europe, including Cyprus and the UK for over 20 years.
She is currently Professor of European Law and Reform/ Head of the School of Law/ University Chair for Research and Innovation at the University of Central Lancashire in Cyprus (UCLan Cyprus). Director of the EU funded Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for the Rule of Law and European Values (CRoLEV) at UCLan Cyprus, measuring/monitoring/reporting on rule of law, values and democratic indicators in Cyprus and Europe https://crolev.eu/ (2022-25).
In 2024, she is D.A.A.D. (official German State-funded Fellowship programme) International Visiting Professor and Chair holder of Common Law in Global Contexts, Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), University of Ruhr in Bochum, Germany.
As of 2023, she is Visiting Professor on the Rule of Law at the United Nations Institute on Training and Research (UNITAR), Geneva, Switzerland.
In 2021, she received from the European Parliament the European Citizen 2020 Prize on behalf of the non-profit research organisation she co-founded in 2017, ICLAIM, for its Social Mediation work, which she scaled up at the EU, UN and Council of Europe levels.
She specialises in EU/European law, policy and governance, European integration and EU-State relations, Fundamental Rights in Context, at the national(Cyprus, comparative)/European/international level. She analyses/applies/reforms European/international law principles/values/instruments of EU law and fundamental human rights in troubled societies at national/supranational level (emergency/crisis/reform of legal systems/EU policies). She is a Rule of Law expert and regularly consults the European Commission on the monitoring/reporting of the sustainability of rights and systemic challenges to justice and democratic values in Cyprus and Europe (Rule of Law Report, public consultations, etc). She also promotes actively social justice and advocates active citizenship via the non-profit research organisation she founded (Interdisciplinary Centre for Law, Alternative and Innovative Methods – ICLAIM), from where she leads impactful research on wider societal issues (see www.iclaimcentre.org). ICLAIM has observer status at the UN Convention on Transnational Organised Crime (UNTOC).