Mariagiulia Giuffré

Dr Mariagiulia Giuffré (PhD, LLM, FHEA) is a Reader in Law at the Department of Law and Criminology, Edge Hill University (UK), a Schumann Fellow and a WiRe (Women in Research) Fellow at the University of Münster (Germany).

She is a Research Affiliate to the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI), School of Advanced Study, University of London, an Associate to ASGI (Italian Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Member of the Society of Legal Scholars and of the European Union Studies Association, as well as a Member of the Advisory Board of Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Law Review (Turkey). She received her PhD in International and European Law (Distinction and Doctor Europaeus Certificate) from the School of International Studies of the University of Trento (Italy) in May 2014, and has served as an Intern at the Italian Consulate in London

Over the last years, she has been a Research Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford and at the Centre of Migration Law at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. She has been a Guest Lecturer in a number of universities, including University of Oxford, College of Europe, Queen Mary, University of London, the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in Sanremo, Lund University, and Naples University “L’Orientale”. From October 2010 to September 2013, she has been affiliated as a Guest Researcher to the Faculty of Law, Lund University where she has taught on the LLM programs in Maritime Law and International Human Rights Law.

She is part of an international research project on “Administrative Detention of Palestinians in Israel”. She has also taken part to a project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and jointly convened by the Center for International Criminal Justice (Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) and the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London. The title of the project is “Undesirable and Unreturnable? Excluded Asylum-seekers and Other Migrants Suspected of Serious Criminality but Who Cannot Be Removed.”

Dr Giuffré is a Member of the Group of Experts for the Project In Limine led by ASGI, and funded by Open Society (2019-2020). The project aims to conduct research and strategic litigation before Italian and international courts concerning migration in transit zones, including ports, airports and hotspots. She is also part of the Group of Experts for the Project Sciabaca, also led by ASGI and funded by Fondazione Charlemagne (2019-2020). The project explores current practices of externalization of borders with the primary goal to carry out research; train lawyers in African countries of origin of migrants, and prepare strategic litigation on migrants and refugee rights before domestic, foreign and international courts/ UN human rights committees, also together with lawyers in countries of origin/transit of migrants in Africa.

As a Principal Investigator, Dr Giuffré has recently been awarded a Grant by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) to lead an international research team working on “Europe-Africa Cooperation: Refugee Rights and the New Frontiers of Externalization of Migration Controls”. The project includes fieldwork in Ethiopia, Morocco and Tunisia.