Research Contributions
Research Contributions
M. Leivadarou, "Climate Change Litigation: Βetween Legal Traditions," Supervisor: Prof. Sébastien Jodoin, available online: https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/ms35tf931
McGill University, 23 August 2024
M. Leivadarou, "Positive Verpflichtungen aus Grund- und Menschenrechten und der Klimaschutz: Welche Lehren lassen sich aus dem Klimabeschluss des Bundesverfassungsgerichts und der Urgenda-Entscheidung des Hoge Raad der Niederlande für Klimaklagen unter der EMRK ziehen?" [Positive obligations under fundamental and human rights and climate protection: What conclusions can be drawn from the climate decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court and the Urgenda decision of the Hoge Raad of the Netherlands for climate claims under the ECHR”], Supervisor: Prof. Dr. jur. Christian Walter
Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, 29 March 2023
M. Leivadarou, "Governmental Climate Duties in Comparative Perspective: Civil, Common, and European Legal Traditions," Blog Series on Climate Reparations, Climate Law Blog (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School), 17 October 2025, online: https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2025/10/17/governmental-climate-duties-in-comparative-perspective-civil-common-and-european-legal-traditions/
Wolfgang Abromeit, “Gestaltungsprobleme bei Public-Private-Partnership Verträgen” [Problems in the Structuring of Public–Private Partnership Contracts], translated from German into Greek by M. Leivadarou, Το Σύνταγμα [The Constitution], 4:2018, Athens: A.N. Sakkoulas, 1 Dec. 2018, pp. 1277–1290.
Role: Translator (selected as one of six law students invited to contribute translations for publication)
M. Leivadarou (co-author), Amicus Curiae Submission in the Matter of a Request by the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) for an Advisory Opinion on the human rights obligations of African States in the context of climate change, submitted to the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (2025), 51 pp.
Role: Co-authored as Co-Director of the Transnational Justice Clinic at the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, in collaboration with Yuri Alexander Romaña-Rivas (Co-Director, Transnational Justice Clinic), Noel Mdoe (Climate Justice Lead, Center for Strategic Litigation), Benjamin Foster (BCL/JD Candidate, McGill University)
M. Leivadarou (co-author), Amicus Curiae Submission in the Matter of a Request by the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) for an Advisory Opinion on the human rights obligations of African States in the context of climate change, submitted to the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (2025), 27 pp.
Role: Co-authored as Research Assistant to Prof. Sébastien Jodoin (Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Programme), in collaboration with Federico Isaza Piedrahita (Programa de Acción por la Igualdad y la Inclusión Social -PAIIS), Dr Alice Venn (Centre for Environmental Law and Sustainability -CELS, University of Bristol Law School)
M. Leivadarou (co-author), Third-Party Intervention in M. Müllner v. Austria (Application no. 18859/21), submitted to the European Court of Human Rights (2023), 12 pp.
Role: Co-authored as Research Assistant to Professor Sébastien Jodoin for the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, in collaboration with Harvard Law School Project on Disability, the Programa de Acción por la Igualdad y la Inclusión Social, Dr. Alice Venn, and Professor Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh
M. Leivadarou, Die Bindung der Mitgliedstaaten an die Grundrechtecharta [Τhe Binding Force of the Charter of Fundamental Rights to its Member States], 2022, 31 pp.
Note: Seminar paper written for Grundrechtsschutz in Europa Schwerpunktseminar during my LL.M at the Ludwig Maximilian Universität München, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. iur. Urlich Haltern, and presented July 22-23, 2022
M. Leivadarou, Συγκριτική Μελέτη: Πολιτικός Διάλογος Μεταξύ της Επιτροπής και των Εθνικών Κοινοβουλίων (2019) [Comparative Report on the Political Dialogue between National Parliaments and the European Commission (2019)], prepared for the 2nd Directorate of Scientific Studies, Scientific Service of the Hellenic Parliament, Athens (2020), 118 pp.
Note: Authored as part of my internship under the supervision of Prof. Asterios Pliakos; the report informed the Hellenic Parliament’s Committee on European Affairs discussions.
M. Leivadarou, “By Fire and Water: Litigating Wildfires and Floods in the Climate Crisis”
M. Leivadarou, “Legal Responses to Climate Change: The Role of Courts in Mitigation and Adaptation”
M. Leivadarou, “Climate Change Litigation: Between Legal Traditions,” presentation available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOxfOuoaTnk