New visiting researcher at iCourts - Virginia Passalacqua
Virginia Passalacqua is an expert in EU law, migration, and legal mobilization, which she investigates with a law-in-context perspective.
Virginia is currently working on her book “Mobilizing EU Justice”, where she investigates why civil society actors engage in EU litigation for migrant rights in some countries but not in others. In the book, she uncovers the conditions under which civil society actors use EU litigation for migrant rights and the obstacles that 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 and at Oxford University.