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Sonia's main area of research currently is EU law and, in particular, Citizenship, Migration and Human Rights within the EU. She also teaches in this area.

• She has taught the EU Law module for 20 years, including special sessions on free movement of people and EU citizenship. She currently teaches EU law for the LLB and the GDL courses; Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Module for undergraduate; EU Social Policy EU Law module, which is currently not running; the optional LLM modules on International Refugees and Migrants and EU law and the Independent Study Module on Human Trafficking.
• Sonia has introduced innovations in teaching using electronic resources, inviting guest speakers and organising trips to the EU institutions in Brussels.
• Sonia acts as External Examiner for European Union Law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the School of Law, University of Bristol and EU and Public Law on the Graduate Diploma in Law, at the School of Law of Manchester Metropolitan University. In April 2012, she acted as external reviewer for the Foundation Course in Law at the Law School of Brunel University. She is currently external examiner for the University of Sussex, School of Law and for Brunel Law School.

Modules taught

LAW5017 LLB European Union Law; LAW6018 European Union Law; LAW6026 GDL European Union Law; LAW6014 Independent Study Module; LAW6022 Law Dissertation; HK005 - European Union Law; LAW6028 Legal Research Project; LAW6003 Nationality, Immigration and Asylum; LAW7010 International Refugees and Migrants.

Supervision

Sonia has supervised and is supervising LLM by research and Doctoral students in many topics on EU law, migration and fundamental rights.  She is happy to supervise new students.

Sonia's research combines empirical findings with theoretical and doctrinal investigations on migration, citizenship, human rights and governance within the EU. Her research foci explore the followings:

• The relationship between European citizenship, migration and fundamental rights. More specifically, equality rights in the context of an enlarging European Union, family migration and the rights of family members and third-country nationals and their EU rights.
• Aspects of regional integration in the international scene: the EU role in shaping other regional integration projects and the EU as a role model for other regional organisations such as the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

Starting from a legal perspective, Sonia has expanded her approach from analysing case-law and legislative developments in the field of free movement of people and citizenship, towards a socio-legal approach of citizenship and migration.

She has had a full submission for the REF and is currently undertaking substantial research activity, research management responsibilities (the Postgraduate Research Tutor for Law and the Convenor of Fundamental Rights, Equality and Diversity (FRED) research group) and external research-related commitments (e.g. as reviewer of the British Academy, Economic and Social Research Council, European Science Foundation, the Estonian Research Council, the Italian Evaluation Agency of the Ministry of Research, the European Law Journal and the European Journal of International Law, OUP and CUP, Committee of Editors of Revista de Derecho de la Unión Europea (REDUE), migration network advisory board). Sonia has also been invited to a number of key-note talks, some very prestigius such as the Academy of European Law (ERA) to provide a training to judges and practitioners on the Charter of Fundamental Rights, in March and November 2017. She has also been visiting Professor at the University of Brescia, Italy and Research Associate at the International Migration Institute, Department of International Development, University of Oxford.

Professor Morano-Foadi was awarded the 2016 Best Taught Module Teaching Award  Oxford Brookes University's Student Led Award and the University Achievement, Contribution and Excellence (ACE) Award in 2020.

She has significant publications in international journals. Her monograph entitled 'Protection of Fundamental Rights in Europe: The Challenge of Integration’, Springer, June 2020 (with S. Andreadakis). The book has received the endorsement of three dignitaries: Mr Dragoljub Popović, Former judge of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg; Jörg Polakiewicz, Legal Adviser, Council of Europe, Professor of Law, Europa-Institut at Saarland University in Saarbrücken and Judge Niilo JÄÄSKINEN, Court of Justice of the EU, Luxembourg.

She has been successful in securing external and internal funding. The most recent successful EU funding grant, which was secured together with colleagues from other schools, is a 295,000 Euro project on human trafficking.

Sonia has presented papers at various international and national conferences in Europe and around the world.

Research group membership

Postgraduate Research Tutor, Oxford Brookes University

Convenor of the Fundamental Rights and Equality Research Group, Oxford Brookes University

Member of the Steering Group, Migration & Refugees Network (MRN)

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK

Member of the UK Society of Legal Scholar (SLS)

Steering Committee Member of the Migration and Law Network composed of UK-based academics in the field, together with a small number of legal practitioners who have taken an interest in the network.

Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law. 

Research grants and awards

• European Commission (HOME/2013/ISEC/AG/THB/Targeted Call 'THB' 2013), on Trafficking of Human Beings September 2014- August 2016 awarded grant for €295,000 (together with Professor Simonetta Manfredi).
• British Academy, Reflections on the Architecture of the European Union after the Treaty of Lisbon: The European Approach to Fundamental Rights, December 2011- November 2012.
• European Science Foundation (ESF) Exploratory Workshop Oxford Brookes University 28th-30th June 2010 entitled "In/equality for third country nationals: implementation and effects of EU directives on migration and asylum"
• ECJ/ECHtHR - Reflections on the Architecture of the European Union after the Treaty of Lisbon: The European Judicial Approach to Fundamental Rights, SSL School Strategy Fund, March 2010-September 2010
• CARICOM/EU - The law-making process within CARICOM (using the EU and the role played by the ECJ as a means of analysing and evaluating recent developments in the law - making process within CARICOM), Central Research Fund, February 2008- November 2008.
• MOBEX Mobility and Excellence in the ERA, ERSC, 2002-2003 (co-applicant).
• MOBISC Equal Pay, Career progression and the Socio-Legal Valuation of Care, European Commission (DG Employment) 2003-2005 (Italian partner).

Internal Grants - 

• Oxford Brookes University, Research Excellence Award, 2018-2019.
• Faculty of Business and School of Law, Labour Market Integration of New Refugees: Entry Channels, Strategies and Experiences (LAMINER Project) 2017-2018.
• Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Events, 2014-2015.
• Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, for research presented at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, 2014.

Research projects

Curretly working on human trafficking, refugees and migrants labour market integration, fundamental rights and equality. Work in progress:
- ‘Resilience versus vulnerability: access to work for refugees” 
- 'Out of sight, out of mind. Reassessing positive obligations towards victims of human trafficking’
- ‘E pluribus unum: insight towards a uniform legal framework for Third Country Nationals (TCNs)

Research impact

Sonia is also working to maximise her research’s future impact. In January/March 2020, she gave a consultancy for the World Bank and Swiss Government to develop an international database of migrant rights, her role involved the state of migrants’ human rights protections in the national law of the United Kingdom. This database has a worldwide spread and a wide reach and its significance is the fact that it is a unique database covering the rights of the migrants.
Her engagement with the European institutions in relation to fundamental rights and migration is ongoing. On 20th April 2016, she was invited by the European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) as an expert to contribute to the public hearing on "Accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR): stocktaking after the ECJ's opinion and way forward" at the European Parliament's premises in Brussels. This event was podcast and it available online. She has drafted together with Dr Stelios Andreadakis and two research assistants involved in the study a document available on the AFCO website. Moreover, key findings from the research on the architecture of Europe after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty were included in the European Parliament Report, which is also included in the REF environment for the Law school.

She was invited by the prestigious Academy of European Law (ERA) to provide a training to judges and practitioners on the Charter of Fundamental Rights, in March and November 2017.
She was also part of the Combat Project (see list of grants) which has influenced the thinking of international policy makers, with the project being cited in a 2017 European Parliament Motion for Resolution (B8-0663/2017) (29/11/2017) proposing that training on signs of human trafficking be a legal requirement for those working in the hospitality sector. (The project ‘constitutes a valuable resource in the fight against human trafficking’). Prior to Combat, there had been no research base to justify this proposal.
She was appointed as part of the Reference Group for the project “Impact on Children of the Family Migration Rules: A Review of the Financial Requirements” commissioned by Office of the Children’s Commissioner (London) and carried out by Middlesex University and Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, May-September 2015.
She served as the convenor of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Migration Section from 2010 to September 2014, and again in September 2017 to organise yearly SLS conferences. The SLS is the main professional body for academic lawyers in the UK, and the conference is one of the biggest generalist academic law conferences.

She acted as the National Reporter for the topic "Migration and Law" for the Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law (Vienna, July 2014). 

Books

• Morano-Foadi S, Andreadakis S, Protection of Fundamental Rights in Europe: the Challenge of Integration., Springer (2020)
  ISBN: 9783030423667
  
• Morano-Foadi S, Vickers L R, Ed., A matter for two courts: the fundamental rights question for the EU, Hart Publishing (2015)
  ISBN: 9781849467070
  

Journal articles

• Morano-Foadi S, 'Solidarity and responsibility: advancing humanitarian responses to EU migratory pressures'
  European Journal of Migration and Law 19 (3) (2017) pp.223-254
  ISSN: 1388-364X eISSN: 1571-8166
  Abstract The principle of solidarity is embedded in the foundations of the European Union (EU) legal system and is integral to the very ethos that has made the Union possible. However, as Member States struggle with contemporary challenges such as high migration flows, terrorism and economic turmoil they have predominantly adopted individualist and protectionist strategies which undermine the character of the Union. Those strategies include, for instance, building walls and securitising internal borders.This contribution argues that solidarity is inextricably linked with responsibility. Solidarity gives rise to responsibility and is a desired consequence of responsibility. Thus, this work suggests that strengthening the binomial of solidarity/responsibility is the solution that will create effective practices in meeting the humanitarian needs of refugees and sharing burdens between Member States.The contribution analyses the EU’s commitment to solidarity/responsibility and calls for Member States to demonstrate their commitment. Three types of Member State solidarity/responsibility are identified: 1) towards refugees and migrants, 2) towards fellow countries and 3) towards the EU itself. The latter finds its legal foundation in the principle of ‘sincere cooperation’ as enshrined in Article 4 (3) TEU and constitutes a means of protecting collective interest and precluding unilateral Member State actions that might jeopardize the entire EU project.Website 
• Morano-Foadi S, Neller J, 'The Status of Human Rights Protection in Europe: It’s complicated'
  Birkbeck Law Review 4 (1) (2016) pp.1-14
  ISSN: 2052-1308 eISSN: 2052-1316
  Abstract The UK has voted to leave the European Union and Prime Minister Theresa May has expressed her aversion to the European Convention on Human Rights, but confusion abounds as to what the current architecture of Europe is, let alone what it might look like in the future. This article seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of the development of supranational human rights protections in Europe and the status of the current quest for greater integration. In particular, the stalled movement towards the accession of the EU to the ECHR is examined and likened to a riddle: to avoid subjecting Member States to conflicting obligations, the ECHR must be granted ultimate authority in the field of human rights, but without compromising the autonomy of EU law. The article concludes with a conversation with Dr Sonia Morano-Foadi, whose extensive research into the European human rights institutions enables her to shed some light on the likelihood of the accession riddle ever being solved and to provide a prognosis for European rights protections in the future.Website 
• Morano-Foadi S, 'Human trafficking and the position of "vulnerability" for victims in Europe'
  International Journal of Migration and Border Studies 2 (3) (2016) pp.289-307
  ISSN: 1755-2419 eISSN: 1755-2427
  Abstract In the light of the key findings of a recent EU project, this paperexamines the complex phenomenon of human trafficking in Europe. The analysis investigates the extent to which human trafficking legislation assists legal and judicial authorities in recognising and protecting victims. Following a review of the various confounding issues around victims’ identification, the
  paper promptly targets the concept of ‘vulnerability’ as a decisive tool for effective intervention in human trafficking. Finally, this paper offers interesting insights into the role of Directive 2011/36/EU and its system of enforcement towards enhanced protection for victims of human trafficking.
  Website 
• Morano-Foadi S, 'Un-nesting the “Matrioska” doll: problems and paradoxes at the intersection between citizenship, migration and human rights (2014)'
  Revista de Derecho de la Unión Europea 27 (2014) pp.301-320
  ISSN: 1695-1085
  
• Morano-Foadi S, 'Fundamental Rights in Europe: constitutional dialogue between the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights'
  Sortuz : Onati Journal of Emergent Socio-Legal Studies 5 (2) (2013) pp.120-144
  ISSN: 1988-0847
  Abstract

  This paper is based on a socio-legal research which evaluates the impact of the Treaty of Lisbon on the area of fundamental rights within the EU. The project’s central core is on the relationship between the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU, as it might be termed the Luxembourg Court) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR, as it might be termed the Strasbourg Court) in the pre and post EU’s accession to theEuropean Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). The work, as informed by empirical findings, questions whether the two Courts’ dialogue in the fundamental rights spherecould be analysed using the language of constitutional pluralism, doctrine elaborated by scholars to describe the multiple claims of authority between the CJEU and thenational courts. The after accession era offers interesting features to revisit the constitutional pluralism doctrine, challenging its appropriateness when granting final authority to the Strasbourg Court in the European human rights field.

  Website 
• Morano-Foadi S, Andreadakis S, 'The convergence of the European legal system in the treatment of third country nationals in Europe: the ECJ and ECtHR jurisprudence'
  European Journal of International Law 22 (4) (2011) pp.1071-1088
  ISSN: 0938-5428
  Abstract

  This article, based on a broader project, focuses on the interaction between the two European Courts (the Court of Justice of the European Union - ECJ and the European Court of Human Rights - ECtHR) and uses the specific area of expulsion/deportation of third country nation - als (non-EU nationals) from European territory as a case study. The work examines the ECJ's and ECtHR's divergent approaches in this area of law, and it then provides some pre - liminary reflections on the potential of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the EU's accession to the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) to achieve a more harmo - nious and convergent human rights system in Europe. It finally argues that the post-Lisbon era has the potential to enhance the protection of fundamental rights within the continent

  Website 
• Morano-Foadi S, Andreadakis S, 'Reflections on the architecture of the European Union after the Treaty of Lisbon: the European judicial approach to fundamental rights'
  European Law Journal 17 (5) (2011) pp.595-610
  ISSN: 1351-5993
  Abstract

  This paper, based on an overarching project, focuses on the role of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) (also known as the Luxembourg Court) in shaping legal integration in Europe. The entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the new legally binding nature of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the future EU's accession to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) bring significant changes to the fundamental rights discourse within the European Union. These developments allow the enhancement of human rights protection within the EU. Based on empirical data collected through interviews with the Court of Justice's judges and Advocates General and recent case-law, the paper offers original insights into the post-Lisbon era of regional integration and reflects on the impact of the Charter on the CJEU jurisprudence.

  Website 
• Duina F, Morano-Foadi S, 'Introduction: the Institutionalisation of Regional Trade Agreements Worldwide: New Dynamics and Future Scenarios'
  European Law Journal 17 (2011) pp.561-567
  ISSN: 1351-5993
  Website 
• Morano-Foadi S, 'EU citizenship and religious liberty in an enlarged Europe'
  European Law Journal 16 (4) (2010) pp.417-438
  ISSN: 1351-5993
  Abstract This article intends to contribute to the theoretical debate on how EU citizenship could be regarded as a bundle of common European individual rights (and, to a lesser extent, obligations) and part of a democratic polity in which every citizen counts equally irrespectively of his/her religious belonging and faith. The EU perceives itself as a community based on shared values. Since there is no European people, nor a European polity, common values play a core role in European polity building. The question, however, is whether common values can be experienced by the EU citizens in daily life and to what extent there are common values in the EU Member States. These issues are explored using the non-discrimination principle on grounds of religion, as a litmus-test for the existence of common values within Europe.Website 
• Morano-Foadi S, 'Third country nationals versus EU citizens: discrimination based on nationality and the equality directives'
  Applied Economics (1729141) (2010) pp.1-26
  ISSN: 0003-6846
  Abstract The creation of an area of freedom, security and justice and the communitarisation of the immigration and asylum policy of the EU are important steps toward integration and fair treatment of Third Country Nationals (TCNs). And yet, EU law presents a number of loopholes in relation to the treatment of non-EU nationals who are subject to discrimination based on nationality and race. These two grounds of discrimination are closely related, and difficult to distinguish and yet important to the development of such a space. The paper discusses the non-discrimination principles on the grounds of nationality and race, respectively based on Art. 18 TFEU (ex Art. 12 EC, as amended) and on Art. 19 TFEU (ex Art. 13 EC, as amended) and their scope of application. It analyses some of the discrepancies in the treatment of TCNs as opposed to EU citizens emerging from the Racial Equality Directive (2000/43/EC) and the Framework Equality Directive (2000/78/EC) (hereafter Equality Directives). The Art., then, considers the approach used by Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) in a relatively recent case Centrum Voor Gelijkheid on racial discrimination and espouses the thesis that the limitations contained in both Directives, together with the current interpretation of Art. 18 TFEU (ex Art. 12 EC, as amended), have created a stratification of entitlements and consequently a hierarchy of people legally resident within the EU. The conclusive section reflects on the potentialities offered by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and its recent effect, as pronounced in the Kücükdeveci case, in providing a more extensive protection to TCNs. Website 
• O'Brien D, Morano-Foadi S, 'The Caribbean Court of Justice and Legal Integration within CARICOM: Some Lessons from the European Community'
  Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 8 (3) (2009) pp.399-429
  ISSN: 1569-1853
  Abstract

  CARICOM, established under the Treaty of Chaguaramas, in 1973, has since its inception suffered from the repeated failure of member states to implement at the national level decisions taken by the Heads of Government at the regional level. The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ,) which has been vested with a compulsory and exclusive jurisdiction to interpret and apply the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, is intended to bridge this implementation gap. This has aroused expectations that the CCJ will play a role similar to that played by the ECJ in promoting legal integration. However, it is important to recognise that the ECJ has functioned within a particular jurisdictional framework and has benefited from the contribution of a diverse range of actors within the wider European legal community. It cannot, therefore, be assumed that the CCJ will be able to replicate the role played by the ECJ. The aim of this article is, accordingly, to review the jurisdictional framework within which the CCJ will function; to explore how this is likely to affect its relationship with the wider legal community within CARICOM; and, finally, to consider how this will impact upon legal integration within the region generally.

  Website 

Book chapters

• Morano-Foadi S, Della Croce, C, Lugosi P, 'Refugees’ integration into the labour market: Discharging responsibility in the UK' in Jesse M (ed.), European societies, migration, and the law: The ‘others’ amongst ‘us’, Cambridge University Press (2021)
  ISBN: 9781108487689 eISBN: 9781108767637
  Abstract

  The State’s legal obligation towards refugees comprises granting protection and conferring post-determination rights. This chapter queries how the UK discharges its legal obligation to facilitate refugees’ engagement with work and whether it contributes towards their ‘othering’. It examines the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) as a case-study, assessing how ‘resettled’ refugees access support to labour market integration through various organisations and actors, comparing the support provided to them with the assistance available to ‘recognised’ refugees. The latter are those who have reached the UK by their own endeavours, applied for asylum, and been granted refugee status. The study has demonstrated how diverse networks of organisations and state actors facilitate or inhibit refugees’ access to the labour market, counterbalancing State actions on integration.
  

  Website 
• Morano-Foadi S, Crifò C, 'Italians Abroad – gli italiani in Inghilterra e la ricerca scientifica' in Annuario di diritto comparato (Comparative Law Yearbook), Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane (2014)
  
• Morano-Foadi S, 'Commentaries on Articles 45 – 48 TFEU' in Smit H, Herzog P (ed.), The Law of the European Union, LexisNexis Matthew Bender (2014)
  ISBN: 9780820569710
  
• Morano-Foadi S, 'The equality clauses in the EU directives on non-discrimination and migration/asylum' in Integration for third country nationals: the equality challenge, Edward Elgar Publishing (2012)
  ISBN: 9780857936813
  
• Morano-Foadi S, 'Citizenship and migration within the European research area: the Italian example' in New Europe, new world? The European Union, Europe and the challenges of the 21st century, Peter Lang (2010)
  ISBN: 9789052016047
  

Monograph
‘Protection of Fundamental Rights in Europe: The Challenge of Integration’, Springer, June 2020 (with S. Andreadakis). The work has been acclaimed by dignitaries as they have endorsed it.
Edited Collections
- A matter for two courts: the fundamental rights question for the EU, Hart Publishing, 2015 (with Lucy Vickers). I have edited most of the work and taken the lead of the introduction and the conclusion. Highly cited.
- Integration for third country nationals: the equality challenge”, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012 (with M. Malena). I have edited more than half of the publication and co-written the introduction and conclusion. A unique book on a topical area.

Journal Articles and Book chapter

- ‘Refugees’ Integration into the Labour Market: Discharging Responsibility in the UK’ in M. Jesse (ed.) European Societies, Migration, and the Law: The ‘Others’ Amongst ‘Us’, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021) 247- 263 (with Della Croce, C., and Lugosi P.)
- ‘Equality Of Third Country Nationals (TCNs) Twenty Years After Tampere: EU And ECHR Protection’, Revista General de Derecho Público Comparado, December 2019 (with Venera Protopapa). This review is one of the best in Europe in EU Law. The publication is in English with a summary in Spanish. 
- 'Solidarity and responsibility: advancing humanitarian responses to EU migratory pressures', European Journal of Migration and Law, Vol 19 (3), 2017, 223-254. Brill | Nijhoff. 2017 
- ‘The Status of Human Rights Protection in Europe: It’s complicated’, Birkbeck Law Review, Vol 4 (1), 2017, 305-318. (with Jen Neller).
- ‘Human trafficking and the position of “vulnerability” for victims in Europe in Special Issue "Judging in the 21st Century: migration and nationality concerns" International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, Vol. 2(3), 2016, 289-307. Interscience Publisher.
- ‘Un-nesting the “Matrioska” doll: problems and paradoxes at the intersection between citizenship, migration and human rights’, Revista de Derecho de la Unión Europea, Vol 27, 2014, 301-320. 
- ‘Italians Abroad – gli italiani in Inghilterra e la ricerca scientifica’, Annuario di diritto comparato, Comparative Law Yearbook, 2014, 621-644. (with C Crifò) - for this publication my contribution is 50%. Impact factor Not known
- ‘Fundamental Rights in Europe: “constitutional” dialogue between the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights’, Oñati Journal of Emergent Socio-legal Studies, Vol 5(1), 2013, 64-88. 
- ‘The convergence of the European Legal System in the treatment of Third Country Nationals in Europe: the CJEU and ECtHR jurisprudence’, European Journal of International Law (2011), Vol. 22 No. 4 , 1071 – 1088, (with S Andreadakis). 
- ‘Reflections on the Architecture of the EU after the Treaty of Lisbon: the European judicial approach to fundamental rights’ in Special Issue edited by S Morano-Foadi and F Duina, entitled "'The Institutionalisation of Regional Trade Agreements Worldwide: New Dynamics and Future Perspectives', European Law Journal, Vol. 17, No. 5, September 2011, 595–610. (with S Andreadakis)
- ‘The Institutionalization of Regional Trade Agreements Worldwide: New Dynamics and Future Scenarios’, Special Issue Regional Trade Agreements Worldwide – Dynamics and Perspectives, Volume 17, European Law Journal, September 2011, 561–567. (with F Duina) 
- Third Country Nationals versus EU citizens: discrimination based on nationality and the Equality Directives, December 2010.
- “EU Citizenship and religious liberty in an enlarged Europe”, European Law Journal, Vol 16(4) 2010, 417-438. European Law Journal ranked 1st for European Law (h5-index 26; h5-median 48)
Books Reviews
- ‘The Future of Europe: Political and Legal Integration Beyond Brexit’, European Law Review, 45, 2020, 751-753. European Law Review ranked 7th for European Law (h5-index 14; h5-median 22)
- ‘The Rise and Decline of Fundamental Rights in EU Citizenship’, European Law Review, 44, 2019, 879-881.
European Law Review ranked 7th for European Law (h5-index 14; h5-median 22)
- ‘The Governance of EU Fundamental Rights’, Common Market Law Review, 54( 6), 2017, 1899-1901.
Common Market Law Review ranked 1st for International law and 2nd for European Law (h5-index 26; h5-median 38)
- ‘Religion and the Public Order of the European Union’ (2011 OUP) in European Law Journal, 18 (1), 2012, 164–173. European Law Journal ranked 1st for European Law (h5-index 26; h5-median 48)
- ‘Migration and Human Rights: The United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights', International Journal of Law in Context Vol 6 (4), 2010, 409–413. Cambridge Journal. 
Book chapters
- Morano-Foadi , ‘Refugees’ Integration into the Labour Market: Discharging Responsibility in the UK’ in M. Jesse (ed.) European Societies, Migration, and the Law: The ‘Others’ Amongst ‘Us’, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021) 247- 263 (with S., Della Croce, C., and Lugosi P).

- ‘The stratification of rights and entitlements – access to residency, welfare and justice by migrants in the UK” (with M. Teclehaimanot, L. Campbell and C. Alves) in M-Cl Foblets and J-Y Carlier, Springer, 2021. 

- “Commentaries on Articles 45 – 48 TFEU”, in Smit & Herzog, The Law of the European Union, LexisNexis Matthew Bender, July 2020.
- “Commentaries on Articles 45 – 48 TFEU”, in Smit & Herzog, The Law of the European Union, LexisNexis Matthew Bender, July 2018.
- “Commentaries on Articles 45 – 48 TFEU”, in Smit & Herzog, The Law of the European Union, LexisNexis Matthew Bender, November 2014.
- “The equality clauses in the EU Directives on non-discrimination and migration/asylum” in S. Morano-Foadi and M. Malena, Integration for third country nationals: the equality challenge”, Edward Elgar Publishing, November 2012 (with Karin de Vries). 
- “Integration policy at the European Union level” in S. Morano-Foadi and M. Malena “Integration for third country nationals: the equality challenge”, Edward Elgar Publishing, November 2012 (with Micaela Malena). 
- Discriminazione su base razziale e sulla nazionalità: protezione giuridica e stratificazione dei diritti dei cittadini dei Paesi terzi nell’Unione Europea, in Le discriminazioni subite dagli stranieri tra diritto europeo e diritto italiano: ai confini tra xenofobia e razzismo?, Armando Editore, Roma, 2011.
- “Citizenship and Migration within the European Research Area: the Italian example” in A. Martínez Arranz, P. Winand, N. Doyle (eds.) ‘New Europe, New Governance, New Worlds’, European Policy Series, Vol. 40. Brussels: P.I.E.-Peterlang, 2010, 91-108.
Textbooks
- S Morano-Foadi (with Jen Neller) Fairhurst, Morano-Foadi and Neller Law of the EU, Pearson, June 2020 
- S Morano-Foadi (with Jen Neller) Fairhurst Law of the EU, Pearson, June 2018 
- S Morano-Foadi (with J Diekmann) European Union lawcards 2011-2012, Routledge 2011 
Reports
- (2018) Final Report of ‘Labour Market Integration of New Refugees: Entry Channels, Strategies and Experiences’ (LAMINAR Project).
- (2014) ‘A Reflection on the Relationship between the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights post Lisbon’, published at Council of Europe's website (with S Andreadakis) 
- (2013) ‘Migration and the Law: A report on the UK experience’ commissioned by the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) for the International Congress of Comparative Law, Vienna in July 2014. The General report on Migration and Law written by J.Y. Carlier MCl Foblets (with L Campbell). 
- (2013) British Academy Report ‘Reflections on the Architecture of the European Union after the Treaty of Lisbon: The European Approach to Fundamental Rights’, February 2013.
- (2011) ‘In/equality of Third Country nationals within the EU: the challenge of equality’, submitted to the European Science Foundation (with M Malena and M Cederberg). 

Areas of expertise

EU Law and migration law.

Conferences

Conference papers (invited talks and seminar papers from 2010)

In 2021 ‘online’ events:
- 5 October, WIN International Conference – AMIF, Labour Integration of Women Victims of Trafficking from Third Countries – Tackling Multiple Vulnerabilities ‘EU legal and policy framework of human trafficking’.

- 25 June, 27th International Conference of Europeanists Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias, E pluribus unum: insight towards a uniform legal framework for Third Country Nationals (TCNs).
The year 2020 has been a peculiar due to COVID-19 all events and conferences have been cancelled.

- 7 May, Book launch, Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Research Conference: “Hopes and Fears”, Protection of Fundamental Rights in Europe: The Challenge of Integration (Springer, 2020)
- 10 May, Brexit Wrecks it? Panellist, University of Naples.
In 2019:
- November 2019, The ‘Others’ amongst ‘Us’ – Refugees’ Integration into the Labour Market’, at the conference ‘Organizing Migration and Integration in Contemporary Societies’ (OMICS), Göteborg.
- 8th May 2019 – Invited talk at the School of Law, University of Sussex, The title “Distributed Responsibility and Refugees’ Integration into the Labour Market”.
In 2017:
- December 2017 – Invited paper to Leiden Law school, on 9-11 December 2017, University of Leiden, Title “The ‘others amongst us’ – Refugees’ Integration into the Labour Market”, Leiden 2017, Conference 'The "Others" amongst "Us": Thoughts on Western Societies, Otherness, and the Law'.
- October 2017 – Keynote speech at the ERA seminar ‘Applying the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union’, in Barcelona 6-7 October 2017, the title of my talk was ‘Freedom of Movement and Residence of Persons within the EU’.
- March 2017 – Keynote speech at the ERA seminar ‘Applying the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union’, in Dublin March 2017, the title of my talk was ‘Freedom of Movement and Residence of Persons within the EU’.
In 2016:
- August 2016, Conference Migration and Social Inequality, Global Perspectives and New Boundaries, 18th Nordic Migration Conference, Chair of the workshop “The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion of Third-Country” and co-presenter of the paper “EU Resilience through Rights: The case of Intra-Corporate Transferees”, Oslo 11-12 August 2016.
- April 2016 – May 2016: A serious of paper presentations and key notes at the University of Brescia, Italy: The right to take collective industrial action: the cases of Viking and Laval (part 1), 26 April and 27 April; General principles of UE Law, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the ECHR: is there a hierarchy?, 3 May. 2016; State Responsibility towards migrants and refugees and the principle of solidarity 10 May 2016; Keynote speech at the symposium entitled: Fundamental Rights in Europe “Constitutional” dialogue between the CJEU and the ECHR, 17 May 2016; Problems and Challenges at the Intersection between Citizenship, Migration and Human Rights, 18 May 2016.
In 2015:
- December 2015 – Invited talk University of Milan, paper “Responsibility of States towards migrants and refugees and the solidarity principle”, 10th December 2015.
- November 2015 – Keynote speech on the Migration Crisis, Birkbeck Law Review Conference-Migration Borders & Violence – London 13-14 November 2015.
- June 2015 - Keynote lecture on ‘Reflections on the rights of mobile researchers and students within the EU” Istituto Politecnico, Viana do Castelo (Portugal), the Ipvc International Week “The Actual Importance of International Mobility in HEIs’, 1st June 2015.
- May 2015 – Paper “The ‘others’ amongst ‘us’: some reflection” (linking European citizenship to the rights of third country nationals), Celebrating Europe Day 2015: “European Citizenship and its current challenges, Ledein 11 May 2015.
- April 2015 – ‘Autonomy of the EU legal order and legal/constitutional pluralism in Europe from the perspective of Luxembourg and Strasbourg’, Workshop/Roundtable “Opinion 2/13: Current and Future Challenges for the Protection of Human Rights in Europe”, 10th April 2015, Law School, University of Lincoln.
- January 2015 – Interactions between legal systems – room for reflections –21st - 23rd January, Faculty of Law, University of Leiden.
In 2014:
- September 2014, SLS Conference “Judging in the 21st Century”, 9th-12th September University of Nottingham.
- August 2014 - 17th Nordic Migration Research Conference in Copenhagen, Chair of workshop 39 (with Dr Micaela Malena) Open Europe or Fortress Europe? The paradigm of integration and equality for non-EU migrants, 13th-15th of August 2014, University of Copenhagen. Paper presented entitled “Fragmentation of statuses: Problems and Paradoxes at the intersection between Citizenship, Migration and Human rights”, 13th August 2014, University of Copenhagen.
- June 2014 – “The Protection of Fundamental Rights in Europe”, 13 June, Council of Europe, Strasbourg.
- April 2014 Invited by the ECHR to take part to a “Town Meeting” looking at the challenges for the future of the UK’s relationship with Europe, London.
- April 2014 – “Judicial reflections on the interplay between human rights and migration”, 25th April, European Social Science and History Conference (ESSHC) “The Role of the Judiciary in the making of Immigration Policies”, Vienna, 23-26 April, University of Vienna.
In 2013:
- December 2013 “Un-nesting the “Matrioska” doll: Problems and paradoxes at the intersection between citizenship, migration and human rights” 20th December 2013, UNED, Madrid.
- September 2013 Chair of the Migration session at SLS Conference, 5th and 6th September 2013, University of Edinburgh.
In 2012:
- September 2012 Chair of the Migration session at the SLS Conference and poster presentation for EU law session entitled “Reflections on the Architecture of the European Union after the Treaty of Lisbon: The European Approach to Fundamental Rights.”, University of Bristol.
- June 2012 “Towards a New Legal Pluralism Theory: Fundamental Rights in Europe”, 3rdConference on the Future of European Law and Policy, Institute of European Law, Birmingham, 28-29 June.
- July 2012, “Fundamental Rights in Europe: the European judicial perspective”, 9th Basque Congress of Sociology and Political Science, 16th to 18th of July 2012, Bilbao (Spain).
In 2011:
- September 2011 “Third country nationals versus EU citizens: discrimination based on nationality and the Equality Directives” SLS Conference “Law in Politics, Politics in Law”, University of Cambridge. I have also chaired the migration session.
In 2010:
- September 2010 “Reflections on the Architecture of the European Union after the Treaty of Lisbon: The European Judicial Approach to Fundamental Rights” SLS Conference Southampton - EU & Competition Section, 16th September 2010.
- June 2010 “Third country nationals versus EU citizens: discrimination based on nationality and the Equality Directives”, ESF Workshop, Oxford Brookes University 28th June 2010.

Other experience

Professor Morano-Foadi has previously held positions including

• Reader in Law, School of Law, Oxford Brookes University (September 2010 to August 2020).
• Senior Lecturer, Department of law, Oxford Brookes University (September 2007 to August 2010).
• Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Leeds (September 2001 - August 2007).
• Seminar leader in EU law (Chair Professor Louise Ackers) at School of law, University of Lancaster (Jan 2001-June 2001);
• Research Fellow at School of Law, University of Leeds (February 1998 - December 1999) working on the TMR and MIGRANT CHILDREN Research Projects, funded respectively by the European Commission and by the European Commission and the Nuffield Foundation.
• Tutor in Environmental Law and Management, Provincia di Foggia (Local Authority), Italy (February 1997 - July 1997)
• Research Fellow at Italian National Research Council, Juridical Studies Institute on the International Community (Rome) (April 1995 - February 1996)
• Scientific Co-ordinator at the Institute for Advance Sciences and Technologies for Development (STESAM), Bari, Italy (September 1994 - January 1995).

Further information

Organisation of the high profile conferences and events:

- October 2019, the symposium entitled ‘The Zero-Sum Game Of Migration In Europe: 20 Years After Tampere’ on 15 October 2019, Oxford Brookes University, School of Law (with the contribution of the Centre for Business, Society, and Global Challenges). The symposium saw numerous, impressive speakers divulging their research on the area, and the key developments since the 1999 Tampere Conclusions. Mr Christos Stylianides, EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management was the keynote speaker
- September 2018,  a series of activities, including one-day workshop opened to policy makers and academics on labour market integration of refugees.
- Spring 2014, the high-profile conference held at the Council of Europe’s seat in Strasbourg to disseminate the findings of a three-year research project, obtained the patronage of the Secretariat of the Council of Europe for the event. 

- January 2013, the high-profile conference which took place at Oxford Brookes University. The conference brought together scholars, judges and policy makers to discuss the legal framework for the protection of fundamental rights in the EU.

Press, publicity and reviews

In January 2011, Professor Morano-Foadi was interviewed, by the Economist and the resulting article, published, quotes on her work on Italian Brain drain

In January 2011, her work was cited by the Sole 24 Ore and in the following articles: “I giovani se ne vanno perché passano solo i raccomandati”, “Fuga di cervelli dall’Italia”, “L’Economist e il dramma italiano della fuga dei cervelli”, “Cervelli italiani in fuga? No, solo emorragia”

In April 2011, journalists from the RAI (National Italian Television) came to Oxford Brookes for an interview on Italian migration and brain drain.

In March 2004 her research was cited by FIRST Finanziamenti per la Ricerca e l’Innovazione

In September 2004, her work was cited by the Guardian in the article “A system in need of surgery”, and La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno.