The Department of Political Science and International Relations organizes in the framework of the course “EU Institutions and Policies“ an event titled:
“Silent Justice: Exploring the lack of EU litigation for migrant rights in Greece?”.
The guest lecture will take place on Friday 12 January 2024, at 15:45, in Room 4.
Featured Speaker: Virginia Passalacqua, Assistant Professor, University of Turin
Virginia Passalacqua conducts research on the European Union, migration, and legal mobilization, which she investigates with a law-in-context perspective. She is currently working on her book “Mobilizing EU Justice: Opportunities and Barriers for Migrant Rights”, where she investigates why civil society actors engage in EU litigation for migrant rights in some countries but not in others. By relying on comparative and empirical (qualitative) research, the book uncovers the conditions that favour or hamper mobilization via the Court of Justice of the EU.
Virginia holds a degree in law (cum laude) from the University of Bologna and a Ph.D. in EU law from the European University Institute, where she worked under the supervision of Professor Bruno de Witte. Her dissertation was awarded the Mauro Cappelletti Prize for the Best EUI Thesis in Comparative Law and her paper, “Altruism, Euro-Expertise and Open EU Legal Opportunity Structure: Empirical Insights on Legal Mobilization Before the CJEU in the Migration Field” was awarded the Ius Commune Prize 2020.
Virginia has recently joined the University of Turin where she works as an Assistant Professor. Previously she was an Emile Noël Fellow at NYU, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Utrecht University and at Collegio Carlo Alberto, and an Academic Fellow at Bocconi University. She held visiting positions at the London School of Economics, at Oxford University, and at the University of Copenhagen.
Time / Date: 15:45, 12/01/2024
Location: Αριστοτέλους 1 & Λεωφ. Αθηνών, Κόρινθος, 20100