Adriana DI STEFANO
Adriana Di Stefano is Associate Professor of European Union Law and International Law at the University of Catania where she researches and teaches core areas of public international law and EU Law. Adriana holds a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy and Human Rights and has been visiting scholar at Universiteit van Amsterdam, Tel Aviv University, Melbourne Law School, the Australian National University College of Law and University of Michigan Law School. She is Dean of the Class of Humanities and Social Sciences at the School of Advanced Studies (Scuola Superiore di Catania) and Rector’s delegate for Equal Opportunities. She also serves as Director of the “Cohesion and Law” Centre, a professional network bringing together lawyers and experts committed to EU law practice-oriented issues, and as Head of the Clinical Programme of Catania School of Law, dealing with human rights and access to justice of marginalised and vulnerable groups.
Areas of Interest include: international responsibility and denial of justice; international human rights law; migration and refugee law; critical approaches to international law; gender issues and international legal standards; transnational law and political philosophy; redistributive justice; supranational democracy and citizenship; legal interpretation of EU law; solidarity and conditionality patterns in EU Law; legal spaces, territories and good neighbourliness in international and EU Law; regional and cross-border cooperation in the Mediterranean area.
Academic Year 2021/2022
- DEPARTMENT OF LAW
Master's Degree in Law - 2nd Year
LAW OF THE EUROPEAN UNION A - L
Academic Year 2020/2021
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Languages for International Cooperation - 2nd Year
INTERNATIONAL LAW
Academic Year 2019/2020
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Languages for International Cooperation - 2nd Year
INTERNATIONAL LAW - DEPARTMENT OF LAW
Master's Degree in Law - 2nd Year
LAW OF THE EUROPEAN UNION A - L
Academic Year 2018/2019
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Languages for International Cooperation - 2nd Year
INTERNATIONAL LAW - DEPARTMENT OF LAW
Master's Degree in Law - 2nd Year
LAW OF THE EUROPEAN UNION A - L - DEPARTMENT OF LAW
Master's Degree in Law - 2nd Year
TRANSNATIONAL LAW
Academic Year 2017/2018
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Languages for International Cooperation - 2nd Year
INTERNATIONAL LAW - DEPARTMENT OF LAW
Master's Degree in Law - 2nd Year
LAW OF THE EUROPEAN UNION A - L - DEPARTMENT OF LAW
Master's Degree in Law - 2nd Year
TRANSNATIONAL LAW
Academic Year 2016/2017
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Languages for International Cooperation - 2nd Year
INTERNATIONAL LAW - DEPARTMENT OF LAW
Master's Degree in Law - 2nd Year
LAW OF THE EUROPEAN UNION A - L - DEPARTMENT OF LAW
Master's Degree in Law - 2nd Year
TRANSNATIONAL LAW
Academic Year 2015/2016
- DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Master's Degree in Languages for International Cooperation - 2nd Year
INTERNATIONAL LAW - DEPARTMENT OF LAW
Master's Degree in Law - 2nd Year
LAW OF THE EUROPEAN UNION A - L - DEPARTMENT OF LAW
Master's Degree in Law - 2nd Year
SELECTED TOPICS IN PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
Research Projects
ExTemPoRe: Exceptionally Bad Times. Memory, Policy and Regulation of Transnational Crisis (2020-2022)
(PI) Solidarity: The Quest for Founding Utopias of International Law (2020-2021), co-funded by the Young Investigator Training Program 2019 (ACRI, Rome)
(PI) Judging the past. Historical and judicial truths before the European Courtof Human Rights (2019-2021)
(PI) The Paradoxes of European Solidarity: in the Factory of the Global Welfare State (2016-2019)
(PI) Living in between Laws: toward a transnational model of ius migrandi (FIR 2014/2015)
In progress: The Legal Reasoning of the EU Court of Justice (2020)
In progress: The Good Neighbouliness in international and EU Law (2021)
In progress: Migration and Culture: Shaping Cultural Rights of Migrants (2021)
Gender Issues and International Legal StandardsFundamental Values in the EU. Problems and Challenges