{{Short description|Legal scholar and UN expert}} {{Infobox academic | name = | image = <!--(filename only, i.e. without "File:" prefix)--> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- if different from "name" --> | birth_date = <!--{{birth date |YYYY|MM|DD}}--> | birth_place = | death_date = <!--{{death date and age |YYYY|MM|DD |YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date)--> | workplaces = | education = | alma_mater = University of Keele | thesis_title = Indigenous rights in the United Nations system : self-determination, culture, land | thesis_url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59477100 | thesis_year = 2001 | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | awards = | website = <!--{{URL|www.example.com}}--> }} '''Alexandra Xanthaki''' is known for her work on the rights of indigenous peoples and international law. She is a professor of law at Brunel University of London (BUL). She was appointed the United Nations special rapporteur in the field of cultural rights in 2021.
==Education == Xanthaki completed her LLB at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece in 1994.<ref name="Orcid">{{Cite web|url=https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2853-1236|title=ORCID|website=orcid.org}}</ref> She undertook an LLM in human rights and emergency law at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland the following year.<ref name="Orcid" /> She moved to Keele University in Staffordshire in the United Kingdom to pursue a Ph.D., where she wrote her thesis on the ''Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the United Nations''.<ref name="ohchr">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ohchr.org/en/alexandra-xanthaki|title=Alexandra Xanthaki|website=OHCHR}}</ref>
== Career == Xanthaki took up her first academic post at the University of Keele, where she became a lecturer in law in 2000.<ref name="Orcid" /> She joined the University of Liverpool in 2001. In 2004, she moved to Brunel University London.<ref name="Orcid" /> As of 2024 she is the director of research at the Brunel Law School.<ref name="Brunel">{{Cite web |title=Professor Alexandra Xanthaki | Brunel University London |url=http://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/alexandra-xanthaki |website=Brunel University London People}}</ref>
In 2021, Xanthaki was appointed the United Nations special rapporteur in the field of cultural rights.<ref name="ohchr" /><ref>{{cite web |date=October 12, 2021 |title=Professor named UN Special Rapporteur in rare double for Brunel |url=https://www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/articles/Professor-named-UN-Special-Rapporteur-in-rare-double-for-Brunel}}</ref> In this role, she advised the International Olympic Committee about whether Russian soldiers should be allowed to compete in the Olympic games in Paris in 2024,<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/mar/27/russian-soldiers-ukraine-olympic-games-united-nations-paris |title = Russian soldiers should be allowed to compete at Olympics, says UN expert| newspaper=The Guardian | date=27 March 2023 | last1=Ingle | first1=Sean }}</ref> and discussed the impact of war on cultural identity in Ukraine.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Farago |first1=Jason |last2=Willis |first2=Haley |last3=Kerr |first3=Sarah |last4=Tiefenthäler |first4=Ainara |date=2022-12-20 |title=A Culture in the Cross Hairs |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/19/arts/design/ukraine-cultural-heritage-war-impacts.html |access-date=2024-05-24 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> She has also considered the implications of teaching children in Tibet Mandarin Chinese,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bristow |first=Micky |date=2024-03-10 |title=Tibet boarding schools: China accused of trying to silence language |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-68492043 |access-date=2024-05-24 |language=en-GB}}</ref> cultural isolation by young aboriginal Australians,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Payet |first=Abigail |date=2016-09-22 |title=Australia's Aboriginal youth: Young life in our oldest civilisation |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/1e98f892-d352-4aef-9c4e-3b024579d867 |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=BBC Three |language=en-GB}}</ref> and funding for cultural works in Chile.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Araneda |first=Fernanda |date=5 April 2024 |title=Tras visita de 12 días a Chile: relatora ONU llama aumentar el presupuesto del Ministerio de las Culturas « Diario y Radio Universidad Chile |url=https://radio.uchile.cl/2024/04/05/tras-visita-de-12-dias-a-chile-relatora-onu-llama-aumentar-el-presupuesto-del-ministerio-de-las-culturas/ |access-date=2024-05-24 |website=radio.uchile.cl |language=es-ES}}</ref>
==Selected publications== * Ghanea, N. and Xanthaki, A. (eds) (2004) 'Minorities, peoples and self-determination: essays in honour of Patrick Thornberry'. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. {{ISBN|978-90-04-14301-2}} * Xanthaki, A. (2007) 'Indigenous rights and United Nations standards: self-determination, culture, land'. New York: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-521-83574-9}}<ref>Reviews of ''Indigenous rights and United Nations standards'' *{{Cite journal |last=Barelli |first=Mauro |date=2008 |title=Review of Indigenous Rights and United Nations Standards: Self-Determination, Culture and Land |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20488242 |journal=The International and Comparative Law Quarterly |volume=57 |issue=3 |pages=733–735 |doi=10.1017/S0020589308000493 |jstor=20488242 |issn=0020-5893|url-access=subscription }} *{{Cite journal |last=Allen |first=Stephen |date=2008 |title=Review of Indigenous Rights and United Nations Standards: Self-Determination, Culture and Land |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151202 |journal=The Modern Law Review |volume=71 |issue=2 |pages=325–330 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-2230.2008.00695_3.x |jstor=25151202 |issn=0026-7961|url-access=subscription }} *{{Cite journal |last=Wiessner |first=Siegfried |date=2009 |title=Review of Indigenous Rights and United Nations Standards |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20456748 |journal=The American Journal of International Law |volume=103 |issue=1 |pages=188–193 |doi=10.2307/20456748 |jstor=20456748 |issn=0002-9300|url-access=subscription }}</ref> * Xanthaki, A., Valkonen, S., Heinamaki, L. and Nuogram, PK. (eds) (2017) 'Indigenous peoples' Cultural Heritage: Rights, Debates, Challenges'. Leiden: Brill/Nijhoff. {{ISBN|978-90-04-34218-7}}<ref>Review of ''Indigenous peoples' Cultural Heritage: Rights, Debates, Challenges'' *{{Cite journal |last=Kirchner |first=Stefan |date=2018 |editor-last=Xanthaki |editor-first=Alexandra |editor2-last=Valkonen |editor2-first=Sanna |editor3-last=Heinämäki |editor3-first=Leena |editor4-last=Nuorgam |editor4-first=Piia |title=Review of Alexandra Xanthaki, Sanna Valkonen, Leena Heinämäki & Piia Nuorgam (eds.), Indigenous Peoples' Cultural Heritage — Rights, Debates, Challenges |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/48710556 |journal=Arctic Review on Law and Politics |volume=9 |pages=97–99 |jstor=48710556 |issn=1891-6252}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}}
{{Authority control}} {{United Nations Special Rapporteurs}}
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