Dr Heli Askola

Convenor, Prato Program
LLB, LLM, PhD,

Professional Profile

Dr Heli Askola has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law from the University of Turku, Finland and a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. Before joining Monash she was Lecturer in Law at Cardiff Law School in the UK and she has done consulting work for the IOM and the European Commission. Her main areas of teaching and research interest are criminal law, EU law (especially Justice and Home Affairs), migration law, international human rights law and feminist legal theory.

Other publications by Dr Askola are available at:
http://ssrn.com/author=781264

Areas of Expertise

Trafficking in human beings
European Union migration law and policy
Gender and law
Criminal Law

Teaching Commitments

Criminal Law B (LAW3302)
European Union Law and Policy (LAW7019)
International Human Rights (LAW4155)
Introduction to European Law (LAW4161)