Alice Lacchei

Alice Lacchei is currently research fellow within the project ACCESS – Gatekeepers to International Refugee Law? – The Role of Courts in Shaping Access to Asylum. More precisely, within the project, she is responsible for conducting research on the role of courts in shaping access to asylum in Italy and Greece.

She recently defended her PhD dissertation titled: "Frontline judges in Italy and France: unveiling discretion in asylum appeals through the lens of the Street-Level Bureaucracy", which focuses on the role of judges in implementing asylum policy, by investigating their discretionary practices on the ground in asylum appeals.