Katerina Linos

Katerina Linos
Katerina Linos in 2022
Born
Κατερίνα Λινού
CitizenshipUnited States, Greece
Known forResearch on diffusion of ideas around the world
TitleI. Michael Heyman Professor of Law
AwardsAPSA Giovanni Sartori Prize, ISA Chadwick Alger Prize, Peter Katzenstein Prize, Carnegie Fellowship, CASBS Fellowship
Academic background
EducationHarvard University (BA, JD, PhD)
ThesisDiffusion of Social Policies Across OECD Countries[1] (2007)
Beth A. Simmons
Academic work
DisciplineLaw, political science
Sub-discipline
International law, Human Rights Law, Immigration law, Refugee law, Comparative law, European Union law
InstitutionsUC Berkeley School of Law
Websitehttps://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/katerina-linos/

Katerina Linos is an American legal scholar. She is the I. Michael Heyman Professor of Law and Co-Director of Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law[2] at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.[3] Her areas of expertise include international law, comparative law, European Union law, employment law, Immigration law, Refugee law, Human rights, Law and economics, Law and society, Empirical legal studies, and Social science research methodology.[3]

Early life and education

Linos completed her Bachelor of Arts in government at Harvard College in 2000, where she graduated magna cum laude. In 2002, She received a diploma in European Union law at European University Institute. She then continued her study at Harvard, graduated with a JD and PhD in Political Science in 2006 and 2007 respectively.[3] From 2006 to 2009, Linos was a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.[4]

Career and scholarship

Linos is best known for her scholarship on policy diffusion.[5][6][7] In her 2013 book "The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion," she argues that policy ideas spread not only through technocratic networks, but also through democratic processes.[8] The book won three national prizes: the Giovanni Sartori Prize,[9] the Chadwick Alder Prize,[10] and the Peter Katzenstein Prize.[11] It was also selected for the Best Books of 2013 on Western Europe by Foreign Affairs.[12]

Linos also studies refugee and migration law. In 2017, Linos was awarded a Carnegie Fellowship to study the European migrant crisis. Her UC Berkeley & UC Davis collaborative interactive data project, "Digital Refuge,"[13] tells the story of the migrant crisis from the perspective of refugees themselves, using over 10,000 Facebook post and 6,000 interview data with refugees.[14] Linos examines how (mis)information shapes refugee and migration law,[15][16] evaluates progressive and conservative innovations,[17][18][19] and explores the strong rationales for financing climate mobility.[20]

In addition to her substantive work, Linos has made important methodological contributions, identifying best practices for using qualitative research methodology for international law,[21] comparative human rights law,[22] and migration and refugee law studies[23] and for general legal scholarship.[24][25]

In 2021, Linos began hosting "Borderlines," a podcast covering cutting edge issues in international law.[26] Past guests include European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager,[27] former President of the International Court of Justice Joan Donoghue,[28] and former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou.[29] Co-hosted by Mark A. Pollack, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Series of Borderlines has been building a public archive of biographies of and interviews with current and former judges and advocates general of the European Court of Justice.[30] The Borderlines CJEU Series published more than 15 episodes so far, with full interviews transcripts and links to cases and sources mentioned in the interviews, such as opinions, judgments, press releases, laws, speeches, and publications.

Linos spent the 2024-2025 academic year as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University,[31] researching how the European Union has developed comprehensive initiatives rapidly in the fields of technology, finance, and migration.

Teaching

Courses Linos teaches include international business transactions, international law, European Union law, and international organizations.

Publications

Book

  • The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780199967872.

Selected articles

  • Linos, Katerina. "Diffusion through Democracy." 55 (3) Am. J. Pol. Sc. 678 (2011).[5]
  • Guzman, Andrew T., and Katerina Linos. "Human Rights Backsliding." Calif. L. Rev. 83, no. 3 (2014).[32]
  • Linos, Katerina. "How to Select and Develop International Law Case Studies: Lessons from Comparative Law and Comparative Politics." 109 Am. J. Int'l L 475 (2015).[21]
  • Linos, Katerina, and Kimberly Twist. "The Supreme Court, the Media, and Public Opinion: Comparing Experimental and Observational Methods." J. Legal Stud. 45, No. 2 (2016).[33]
  • Linos, Katerina, and Melissa Carlson. "Qualitative Methods for Law Review Writing." 84 U. Chi. L. Rev. 213 (2017).[24]
  • Carlson, Melissa, Laura Jakli, and Katerina Linos. "Rumors and Refugees: How Government-Created Information Vacuums Undermine Effective Crisis Management." International Studies Quarterly 62 (2018).[15]
  • Carlson, Melissa, Laura Jakli, and Katerina Linos. "Refugees Misdirected: How Information, Misinformation, and Rumors Shape Refugees’ Access to Fundamental Rights." 57 Virg. J. Int'l L. 3 (2018).[16]
  • Chilton, Adam, and Katerina Linos. "Preferences and Compliance with International Law." 22 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 247 (2021).[34]
  • Linos, Katerina, and Elena Chachko. "Qualitative Methods in the Study of Migration and Refugee Law." in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law (Kevin Cope, Stella Burch Elias, and Jill Goldenziel eds., Forthcoming).[23]
  • Linos, Katerina, and Elena Chachko. "Refugee Responsibility Sharing or Responsibility Dumping?" 110 Calif. L. Rev. 897 (2022).[17]
  • Chachko, Elena, and Katerina Linos. "Ukraine and the Emergency Powers of International Institutions." 116 Am. J. Int'l L. 775 (2022).[35]
  • Linos, Katerina, and Kristina Daugirdas. "Back to Basics: The Benefits of Paradigmatic International Organizations." 14 Harv. Nat'l Sec. J. 181 (2023).[36]
  • Daugirdas, Kristina, and Katerina Linos. "Are International Organizations Obsolete?" 20 Int'l Org. L. Rev. 263 (2023).[37]
  • Bradford, Anu, Adam Chilton, and Katerina Linos. "The Gravity of Legal Diffusion." 2023 U. Chi. Legal F. 35 (2023).[6]
  • Bradford, Anu, Adam Chilton, and Katerina Linos. "Dynamic Diffusion." 27 J. Int'l Econ. L. 538 (2024).[7]
  • Carlson, Melissa, Elena Kempf, Katerina Linos. "Qualitative Methods in Comparative Human Rights Law." in Oxford Handbook on Comparative Human Rights Law (Neha Jain and Mila Versteeg eds., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming).[22]
  • Chachko, Elena, and Katerina Linos. "Emergency Powers for Good." 66 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1 (2024).[38]
  • Kempf, Elena, and Katerina Linos. "NGEU: A New Marshall Plan for Europe and a Template for Global Finance." 118 Am. J. Int'l L. Unbound 151 (2024).[39]
  • Linos, Katerina. "Qualitative Social Science Methods for Legal Scholarship: From Complex Data to Compelling Narratives." 119 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting 73 (2025).[25]
  • Bradford, Anu, Adam Chilton, and Katerina Linos. "The Limits and Promise of Global Antitrust Law." 66 Harv. J. Int'l L. 431 (2025).[40]
  • Linos, Katerina. "Financing Climate Mobility – from Duty to Investment." 119 Am. J. Int'l L. Unbound 107 (2025).[20]
  • Chilton, Adam, Katerina Linos, Anup Malani, and Zainab Tabassum. "Forced Migration and Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from Rohingya Refugees." 52 (9) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2135 (2025).[41]
  • Deli, Janka, and Katerina Linos. "Silver Linings of the EU Migration Pact: Progressive Elements, Binding Solidarity, and Their Limits." in Challenges of European Refugee and Asylum Law and Policy (Iris Goldner Lang and Janine Silga eds., Oxford University Press, 2027).[19]

References

  1. ↑ "Doctoral Dissertations in Political Science". PS: Political Science & Politics. 41 (2): 444–468. 2008. doi:10.1017/S1049096508220664. S2CID 233344240. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  2. ↑ "Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law".
  3. 1 2 3 "Katerina Linos". Berkeley Law. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
  4. ↑ "Past Junior Fellows - Law | Society of Fellows". socfell.fas.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2025-11-25. Retrieved 2026-07-29.
  5. 1 2 Linos, Katerina (2011-07-01). "Diffusion through Democracy". American Journal of Political Science. 55 (3): 678–695. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2011.00513.x – via SSRN.
  6. 1 2 "The Gravity of Legal Diffusion | The University of Chicago Legal Forum". legal-forum.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2026-07-20.
  7. 1 2 Bradford, Anu; Chilton, Adam; Linos, Katerina (2024-10-18). "Dynamic diffusion". Journal of International Economic Law. 27 (3): 538–557. doi:10.1093/jiel/jgae034. ISSN 1369-3034.
  8. ↑ Linos, Katerina (2013-04-29). The Democratic Foundations of Policy Diffusion: How Health, Family, and Employment Laws Spread Across Countries. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-996786-5.
  9. ↑ "Organized Section 37: Giovanni Sartori Book Award". American Political Science Association (APSA). Retrieved 2026-07-23.
  10. ↑ "Chadwick Alger Prize [IO]". www.isanet.org. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
  11. ↑ "Peter Katzenstein Book Prize | Department of Government". government.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
  12. ↑ "Best International Relations Books of 2013 | Foreign Affairs". www.foreignaffairs.com. 2013-12-24. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
  13. ↑ "Digital Refuge". digitalrefuge.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  14. ↑ "Katerina Linos". inequality.hks.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  15. 1 2 Carlson, Melissa; Jakli, Laura; Linos, Katerina (2018-09-01). "Rumors and Refugees: How Government-Created Information Vacuums Undermine Effective Crisis Management". International Studies Quarterly. 62 (3): 671–685. doi:10.1093/isq/sqy018. ISSN 0020-8833.
  16. 1 2 Carlson, Melissa; Jakli, Laura; Linos, Katerina (2018). "Refugees Misdirected: How Information, Misinformation, and Rumors Shape Refugees' Access to Fundamental Rights". Virginia Journal of International Law. 57 (3) – via SSRN.
  17. 1 2 Linos, Katerina; Chachko, Elena (2022). "Refugee Responsibility Sharing or Responsibility Dumping?". California Law Review. doi:10.15779/Z38ST7DX91 – via SSRN.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. ↑ >"CASBS People Katerina Linos". Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Retrieved 2026-07-29.
  19. 1 2 Deli, Janka; Linos, Katerina (2027). "Silver Linings of the EU Migration Pact: Progressive Elements, Binding Solidarity, and Their Limits". In Iris Goldner Lang and Janine Silga (ed.). Challenges of European Refugee and Asylum Law and Policy. Oxford University Press.
  20. 1 2 Linos, Katerina (2025). "Financing Climate Mobility – from Duty to Investment". American Journal of International Law Unbound. 119: 107–112. doi:10.1017/aju.2025.10007. ISSN 2398-7723.
  21. 1 2 Linos, Katerina (2015). "How to Select and Develop International Law Case Studies: Lessons from Comparative Law and Comparative Politics". American Journal of International Law. 109 (3): 475–485. doi:10.5305/amerjintelaw.109.3.0475 – via SSRN.
  22. 1 2 Carlson, Melissa; Kempf, Elena; Linos, Katerina (2023). "Qualitative Methods in Comparative Human Rights Law". In Neha Jain and Mila Versteeg (ed.). Oxford Handbook on Comparative Human Rights Law. Oxford University Press.
  23. 1 2 Linos, Katerina; Chachko, Elena (2022). "Qualitative Methods in the Study of Migration and Refugee Law". In Kevin Cope, Stella Burch Elias, and Jill Goldenziel (ed.). Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law. Oxford University Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
  24. 1 2 Linos, Katerina; Carlson, Melissa (2017). "Qualitative Methods for Law Review Writing". University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 213, 2017. 84: 213 – via SSRN.
  25. 1 2 "Qualitative Social Science Methods for Legal Scholarship: From Complex Data to Compelling Narratives". Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting. 119: 73–87. 2025. doi:10.1017/amp.2025.10066 – via SSRN.
  26. ↑ "Borderlines Archives". Berkeley Law. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
  27. ↑ "Digital Markets Act". Berkeley Law. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  28. ↑ "Behind the Bench with ICJ's Former President Joan Donoghue". UC Berkeley Law. Archived from the original on 2026-04-17. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
  29. ↑ "Reimagining Democracy with George Papandreou". UC Berkeley Law. Archived from the original on 2026-05-11. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
  30. ↑ "European Union Court of Justice Interviews Archives". UC Berkeley Law. Archived from the original on 2026-03-07. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
  31. ↑ "Katerina Linos | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences". casbs.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
  32. ↑ Guzman, Andrew T; Linos, Katerina (2014). "Human Rights Backsliding". California Law Review. doi:10.15779/Z387R68.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  33. ↑ Linos, Katerina; Twist, Kimberly (2016). "The Supreme Court, the Media, and Public Opinion: Comparing Experimental and Observational Methods". The Journal of Legal Studies. 45 (2): 223–254. doi:10.1086/687365. ISSN 0047-2530.
  34. ↑ Chilton, Adam; Linos, Katerina (2021-07-27). "Preferences and Compliance with International Law". Theoretical Inquiries in Law. 22 (2): 247–298. doi:10.1515/til-2021-0023. ISSN 1565-1509.
  35. ↑ Chachko, Elena; Linos, Katerina (2022). "Ukraine and the Emergency Powers of International Institutions". American Journal of International Law. 116 (4): 775–787. doi:10.1017/ajil.2022.57 – via SSRN.
  36. ↑ "Back to Basics: The Benefits of Paradigmatic International Organizations | Harvard National Security Journal". harvardnsj.org. Retrieved 2026-07-20.
  37. ↑ Daugirdas, Kristina; Linos, Katerina (2023-12-20). "Are International Organizations Obsolete?". International Organizations Law Review. 20 (3): 263–267. doi:10.1163/15723747-20030001. ISSN 1572-3739.
  38. ↑ "William & Mary Law Review". wmlawreview.org. Retrieved 2026-07-20.
  39. ↑ Kempf, Elena; Linos, Katerina (2024). "NGEU: A New Marshall Plan for Europe and a Template for Global Finance". American Journal of International Law Unbound. 118: 151–156. doi:10.1017/aju.2024.23. ISSN 2398-7723.
  40. ↑ Bradford, Anu; Chilton, Adam; Linos, Katerina (2025). "The Limits and Promise of Global Antitrust Law". SSRN. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
  41. ↑ Chilton, Adam; Linos, Katerina; Malani, Anup; Tabassum, Zainab (2025-10-18). "Forced migration and women's empowerment: evidence from Rohingya refugees". Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 52 (9): 2135–2164. doi:10.1080/1369183X.2025.2535451. ISSN 1369-183X.
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