Dr Chiara Berneri

Lecturer In Law

chiara.berneri@open.ac.uk

Biography

Professional biography

Dr Chiara Berneri is a Law Lecturer and joined The OU in September 2021. Her interests focus on EU law, International Law, Human Rights and Constitutional Law. Chiara holds a law degree from Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy), an LLM in European Union law from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD from City, University of London. Chiara published two books with Hart. She also published in leading journals, such as the European Journal of Migration and Law and the European Journal of Law and Economics.

Research interests

Chiara research interests focus, in particular, on the intersection between immigration law, human rights, state sovereignty and citizenship. She welcomes PhD supervision in this field.

Teaching interests

Chiara is committed to delivering excellence in teaching.

She has been involved in the following undergraduate and postgraduate modules:

W111 Criminal law and the courts

W203 Public law and Criminal law

W330 European Union Law

W350 Exploring legal bounderies

W800 The law dissertation

W821 Exploring the boundaries of international law

She is also currently supervising a PhD project in the field of EU law and Economic Citizenship.

Impact and engagement

External engagement:

Guest speaker at Inaugural Lecture LLM EU Law University of Edinburgh, “Private Sponsorship of Refugees in Europe”, University of Edinburgh, 14 September 2022
Invited speaker at Communion and Law conference, “Immigration and Artificial Intelligence”, Sophia University Institute (Florence), 9-11 September 2022
SLSA Conference 2022, “Private Sponsorship of Refugees in Europe”, University of York, 6-8 April 2022
Invited speaker, “Family Reunification: an EU Law Perspective”, University of Ghent, 11 October 2019.
Invited speaker, “EU citizenship @ 25: main achievements and future challenges”, Centre for Migration Law, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 28-29 June 2018.
“King’s College Postgraduate Conference”, King’s College, London, May 2012.
“SLSA 2011 Conference”, University of Sussex, Brighton, 11 April 2011.

External collaborations

Chiara has been one of the organizer of the series of seminars “New Frontiers of Human Rights” at Sophia University Institute (Italy), promoted by Institute on Religion, Law and Lawyer’s Work (Fordham University), Observatorio de Derechos Humanos (Universidad de Valladolid) and The Center for Research in Politics and Human Rights (Sophia University Institute) since 2021.