Doctoral thesis award for Virginia Passalacqua for dissertation on EU migration law
Virginia Passalacqua, now a postdoctoral researcher within RENFORCE, at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, has been awarded the Mauro Cappelletti Prize for the Best EUI Thesis in Comparative Law. She received the award for her dissertation
The prize committee, in its evaluation, wrote: "The thesis deals with who mobilizes EU migration law on behalf of migrants through an in-depth study of preliminary references reaching the Court of Justice from Italy, the UK and the Netherlands. It offers a vivid view of the law-in-action, showing how different actors belonging to civil society, to academia, or to the judiciary itself lay at the basis of the national courts’ dialogue with the CJEU. The thesis is very topical, it is written in an engaging and accessible way, and it makes an original contribution to comparative migration law, explaining legal mobilization in the three selected countries and reflecting on the conditions for successful mobilization."
About Virginia
Virginia Passalacqua is a postdoctoral researcher at the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE). Her research is in the field of EU law, EU litigation, migration, and anti-discrimination, which she studies with a law in context perspective. In particular, she investigates how social and political processes shape litigation at the EU level and, vice versa, she examines the effects of EU law on social justice, redistribution, and minorities.
Virginia obtained a Ph.D. in EU law from the European ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Institute in 2020. Before joining RENFORCE, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Collegio Carlo Alberto and at the ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Turin, and an academic fellow at Bocconi ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, where she taught EU law.