Katerina Linos

During her year at CASBS, Katerina Linos plans to investigate how international organizations respond to crises, with a specific focus on the actions taken by the EU in response to the challenges of Covid, migration, financial instability and climate change over the past three years. Her research aims to provide insights into the ways in which international organizations adapt to and address pressing global issues.

Linos is a law professor at UC Berkeley, who teaches international business transactions, international law, European Union law, and international organizations. Her research focuses on the diffusion of ideas around the world. Her PhD is in political science, and much of her work is empirical. Her book, The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion: How Health, Family and Employment Laws Spread Across Countries (Oxford University Press, 2013) won multiple awards. Through a Carnegie Fellowship, Linos studied how information and misinformation shape refugee and migration law. Her team conducted and analyzed thousands of interviews and Facebook posts to present the European refugee crisis from the perspective of migrants at digitalrefuge.berkeley.edu.