Dr Aristel Skrbic

PhD Philosophy (Summa cum laude), University of Leuven (2024)

LL.M. International and European Public Law (Magna cum laude), University of Leuven (2024)

ReMA Philosophy (Summa cum laude), University of Leuven (2018)

MA Philosophy (Summa cum laude), University of Leuven (2017)

MPerf (Distinction), Royal College of Music (2016) 

BA (Hons) Humanities (2.1.), The Open University (2016)

I am a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2026-28) at the Faculty of Law and a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at Trinity College. I am also a Visiting Fellow at the Law and the Humanities Hub of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. In 2025, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University's Faculty of Law working on postcolonial theory and international migration law as part of the ERC-funded MIGJUST project. In 2024, I defended my doctorate in philosophy at the University of Leuven where I held an individual fellowship from the Flemish Research Council (FWO). In my doctoral project, I worked on a novel approach to EU law at the intersection of constitutional theory and critique of legal reasoning. The project resulted in five publications, principal among which is "Ideology in the Adjudication of the ECJ", published in Law and Philosophy in 2023. As part of the project, I was a visiting researcher at the law faculties of the University of Vienna and Harvard University. Beyond academia, I am trained as a classical musician and have so far called five countries home.