Role
Researcher in International Law at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.
Bio
Francesca De Vittor is a tenured researcher in international law at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Milan (since November 2013), and previously at the University of Macerata. Currently a lecturer in Human Rights at the Catholic University, between 2006 and 2013 she taught courses in International Law, European Union Law, International Organization Law , International Protection of Human Rights, and Immigration Law at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Macerata.
After graduating in Law from the University of Bologna (1999, with a grade of 110/110 cum laude), he attended the DEA program in International Law at the Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg. In 2004, following a joint doctorate between the Federico II University of Naples and the Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg, he obtained a double degree, both as a PhD and as a Doctor of Law, with a thesis on "State Immunity from Jurisdiction and the Protection of Fundamental Human Rights" (judicial judgment with honorable jury favors).
From 2005 to 2006, she was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. From 2009 to 2012, she was a member of the Italian Republic's defense team in the dispute concerning Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v. Italy: Greece intervening ) before the International Court of Justice.
He currently focuses on immigration and asylum law, with a particular focus on issues related to border externalization and rescue at sea.