Gaia Zanotti
Thesis title: What legal standards concerning access to employment and fair labour standards are available to applicants and beneficiaries of international protection in Europe and what is the current level of compliance across European states?
Contact details
- Email: G.Zanotti-1@sms.ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Background
Gaia Zanotti earned her LLB from the University of Exeter in 2020 before completing an LLM in Human Rights Law at Queen Mary University of London with distinction in 2021. She is now undertaking her doctoral research at the University of Edinburgh.
During the 2023–2024 academic year, she convened the Law, Borders and Migration reading group, and she currently serves as administrator of the Global Justice Academy.
Qualifications
LLB (Exon)
LLM (QMUL)
Undergraduate teaching
Gaia is tutoring International Law Ordinary (Semester 1), Employment Law (Semester 2) and European Union Law (Semester 2).
Research summary
Supranational labour law, with a focus on how states regulate the economic activity of refugees and asylum seekers. The thesis develops a labour law framework grounded in European and international standards, situating international protection within broader labour market regulation and the competing demands of humanitarian aims, workers’ rights, and economic governance.