PhD in EU Law, Universities of Padova and Innsbruck, 2017
Significant Professional Experience
- Research Fellow, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), 2017 – present
- Professor of EU Law, University of Tuscia, 2020
- Visiting Fellow, European University Institute (EUI), 2019
- Double-PhD in EU Law, Universities of Padova and Innsbruck, 2014-2017
- European Parliament, Legal Service, traineeship, 2015
- Council of Europe, Legal Affaires and Human Rights Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly, traineeship, 2014
Current research
- Main research interests include International and European Union Law, with a particular focus on the areas of human rights, migration and asylum, border controls.
Main publications
- F.L. Gatta, The European and international response to the human rights situation of migrants in Libya: the humanitarian evacuation programmes run by the African Union, the European Union and the United Nations, in Moya D., Kotzur M., Romano A., Sozen U.S., The external dimension of EU migration and asylum policies: human rights, development and neighbourhood policies in the Mediterranean area, 2020, Nomos, forthcoming
- F.L. Gatta, From Soft International Law on B&HRs to Hard EU acts?, in Buscemi M, Lazzerini N., Magi L., Russo D. (eds.), Legal Sources in Business & Human Rights. Evolving Dynamics in International and European Law, Leiden, 2020, Brill, series: Developments in International Law, forthcoming
- F.L. Gatta, Social media and applications to the ECtHR: connecting people in the name of human rights?, in Strasbourg Observers, 4 June 2020
- F.L. Gatta, The problematic management of migratory flows in Europe and its impact on human rights: the prohibition of collective expulsion of aliens in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, in Bruno G.C., Palombino F.M., Di Stefano A. (eds.), Migration issues before international Courts and Tribunals, Rome, 2019, CNR Edizioni, pp. 119-146
- F.L. Gatta, Migration and Rule of (human rights) Law: Two ‘crises’ looking in the same mirror, in Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy, Vol. 15(2019), pp. 99-133
- F.L. Gatta, The trilateral cooperation between the African Union, the European Union and the United Nations on migration and Libya: a successful example of collaboration?, in Federalismi, Focus Africa n. 3/2019, 11 December 2019
- F.L. Gatta, Legal avenues to access international protection in the European Union: past actions and future perspectives, in Journal européen des droits de l'homme - European Journal of Human Rights (JEDH), Vol. 2018, n. 3, pp. 163-201