Ezgi Özlü wins prestigious René Cassin 2024 thesis prize

The Luxembourg Centre for European Law (LCEL) is pleased to announce that our postdoctoral researcher, Ezgi Özlü, has been awarded the prestigious René Cassin 2024 Thesis Prize for her PhD thesis titled ‘The Costs Policy of the European Court of Human Rights: From Judicialisation to Judicial Restraint.’

Ezgi’s academic credentials include a law degree from the University of Başkent, a Master’s degree in Public Law from the University of Galatasaray, and another in Human Rights Law from the University of Strasbourg. She is admitted to the Istanbul bar. Ezgi has served as a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law in the Department of International Law and Dispute Resolution and is a PhD candidate at the University of Strasbourg. Her professional experience includes working as a consultant at the Department for the Execution of Judgments at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and as a research and teaching assistant in constitutional law at the University of Kocaeli.

Ezgi attended the Summer Session of the René Cassin Foundation in 2015 and has aspired to follow in the footsteps of past recipients. She learned of her award while presenting at the Research Methods Workshop at the Centre for Fundamental Rights – Hertie School.