Delia Ferri
Lecturer
Law
National University of Maynooth
Ireland
Biography
Dr. Delia Ferri is a Lecturer in Law at Maynooth University, where she lectures primarily in the fields of EU law and International and European Disability Law. She is a member of the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute (MUSSI), and a fellow of the Maynooth Centre for European and Eurasian Studies. She is an affiliated researcher at the Dirpolis Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Italy) within the research cluster on social rights, social inclusion and disability, and a fellow at the Burton Blatt Institute of Syracuse University (USA). She holds a J.D. in Law (Laurea in Giurisprudenza) awarded 110/110 magna cum laude from the University of Verona School of Law (Italy), a LL.M. in International and European Business Law awarded First Class Honours with Distinction from Trinity College Dublin, a Doctorate in European and Italian Constitutional Law from the University of Verona (Italy), and a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education (PGDHE) from Maynooth University. Delia is also qualified attorney at law (Avvocato), enrolled at Verona Bar since 2008. Before joining Maynooth University, Delia was Research Associate at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy of the National University of Ireland Galway and lectured at the Irish Centre for Human Rights. She also collaborated with the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento (Italy). In addition, between 2006 and 2014 she worked as of counsel for a law firm in Verona and carried out substantial activity as independent legal consultant for different NGOs, research centres and international law firms, such as Human European Consultancy B.V (The Netherlands), Konrad Stiftung Adenauer Foundation (Italy/Germany) European Foundation Centre (Belgium), Germann Avocats (Switzerland). Since 2004, Delia has taken part into different academic research projects and policy-oriented studies mainly covering the fields of EU Law, European Constitutional Law and International and Comparative Disability Law.
Research Interest
EU Law, European Constitutional Law and Comparative Disability Law.
Publications
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2017 '‘L’accomodamento ragionevole per le persone con disabilità in Europa: dal “Transatlantic Borrowing†alla “Cross-Fertilization' Ferri D. (2017) '‘L’accomodamento ragionevole per le persone con disabilità in Europa: dal “Transatlantic Borrowing†alla “Cross-Fertilization'. DIRITTO PUBBLICO COMPARATO ED EUROPEO, (2)
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2017 'The Role of the European Union in Protecting the Rights of Asylum Seekers with Disabilities’' Ferri D. (2017) 'The Role of the European Union in Protecting the Rights of Asylum Seekers with Disabilities’' In: S. Baldin, M. Zago (eds). Europe of Migrations. Trieste: Trieste University Press (EUT).
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2008 La costituzione culturale dell’Unione europea [The Cultural Constitution of the European Union]. Ferri D. (2008) La costituzione culturale dell’Unione europea [The Cultural Constitution of the European Union]. Padova: CEDAM.
