I am Assistant Professor in European Private Law since 2022. I am currently working on my NWO Veni project (2024-2027): Towards just food production in the green transition: law and the making of sustainable labour relations from below.

My current research more broadly is situated at the intersection of private law, food systems and political economy of labour. My main research focus is on how (private) law structures work relations in (sustainable) food systems, drawing on critical approaches to law such as law and political economy (LPE), economic sociology of law, participatory action research (PAR), and law and social movements.

At the UvA, I am affiliated with the Centre for Transformative Private Law (ACT), the Sustainable Global Economic Law (SGEL) research group, the UvA Sustainability Platform (USP) and the N-EXTLAW Project.

I received my doctorate from the Hertie School in Berlin (2020), as part of both Hertie's Doctoral Programme in Governance and the Doctoral Programme “Unity and Difference in the European Legal Area” at the Humboldt University. For my PhD studies I was awarded a full scholarship by the Studienstiftung (The German Academic Scholarship Foundation).

I also hold a Master's Degree in European and International Law (LLM.Eur) from the University of Bremen, and an LLB from Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. Prior to my doctoral studies, I spent several years working for the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB), counselling and assisting migrant workers with the Fair Mobility Project.

Next to teaching courses and supervising LLM theses, I've acted as coordinator for the master's programme in European Private Law (2023-2024).

List of courses:

• Advanced Private Law in Context, LLM in European Private Law (2024-present)
• Skills and Research Methods for Law, PPLE programme (2022-2024)
• European Private Law and Inequality, Minoir in Law and Justice in the EU (2022-2024)
• Moot Court in European Union Law, Minoir in Law and Justice in the EU (2021-2024)

Supervision

I welcome LLM thesis proposals addressing different aspects of the relationship between private law and labour in the global economy. I am interested in supervising projects that examine the effects of private law on the rights and realities of working people in different contexts, including global value chains, industrial food production, migrant work, trade unions, labour in the context of EU integration (cross-border work, labour mobility), work as part of sustainable small-scale economic activities (e.g. worker cooperatives) etc.