Stefano D'Aloia
Stefano D’Aloia is a PhD researcher at the Centre for International Law and Applied Sociology of International Law since November 2020 (mini-ARC ULB fellow). He holds Master’s degrees in Law (2013, ULiège) and in Economics (2016, HEC-ULiège), as well as an advanced Master’s in Tax Law (2014, ULiège) and a specialized Master’s in International Law (2019, ULB).
In his doctoral research, conducted under the supervision of Anne Lagerwall, Stefano examines the argument of respect for human rights invoked to justify the recognition of acts adopted in territories under unlawful occupation (e.g. Northern Cyprus, Nagorno-Karabakh, Donbas, Crimea, Western Sahara, etc.). “In the name of the human rights of the inhabitants of such a territory, are we not in fact legitimizing an unlawful occupation?” could be seen as the central question of his research, with particular attention paid to the “protagonists” of this argument: who invokes it, and which “humans” are being protected?
