Eleni Karageorgiou is a doctoral candidate in public international law at Lund University, Sweden. She is a qualified lawyer (Athens Bar Association) practicing migration law since 2008 and holds an LLM in International Human Rights law from Lund University and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Before commencing her doctoral studies, in August 2013, she worked for the Greek Asylum Appeal Committees, representing the National Commission for Human Rights. Her doctoral thesis explores the functions and implications of the principle of solidarity and responsibility sharing for asylum within the EU.