Madalina Bianca Moraru

Madalina Moraru is Associate Professor of EU Law in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna.

She is also an Asst. Prof. at the Centre for Judicial Cooperation of the European University Institute, where she coordinates the research and legal training on asylum, immigration and rule of law. She has been an EU citizenship expert for the European Commission; and a Visiting Fellow at the Court of Justice of the European Union, and invited expert for EJTN and EUAA.

Her research focuses on: EU citizenship, refugee and immigration law; judicial interactions in the field of fundamental rights and rule of law; the law of EU external relations; consular and diplomatic protection; and comparative judicial systems.

As PI of the ERC-funded ACCESS project, she investigates how domestic and supranational courts across the world assess the compatibility of State developed barriers to accessing asylum with the Refugee Convention and other human rights instruments.