Biography
Dr Biljana Kotevska is a socio-legal feminist scholar specialising in equality and non-discrimination law, international human rights law, legal history, and research methodology. She is currently a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute, where she is preparing a monograph on intersectional discrimination and equality law in the post-Yugoslav context. Her research also examines political and class discrimination as pressing contemporary issues.
Biljana holds a PhD in Law from Queen’s University Belfast, an LLM (Distinction) in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex, an MA in Democracy and Human Rights in South-East Europe from the Universities of Sarajevo and Bologna, and an LLB from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.
Her academic work is grounded in extensive field and archival research across Europe. She has led multiple research projects as Principal Investigator, including the ongoing FOLIO project, supported by an EUI Early Stage Researcher grant. Her teaching spans EU law, human rights, gender equality, and includes professional training for MPs, public officials, and equality bodies.
Biljana also engages in public policy and legal reform. She has consulted for the European Commission, EIGE, FRA, OSCE, and the Council of Europe, contributing to reforms in North Macedonia. She currently serves as expert coordinator for enlargement countries in the European Commission’s Network of Legal Experts on Gender Equality and Non-discrimination Law.