Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Sara Mariella Lambertini Martinez, The Fiction of Non-Entry in South American Airports: Evidence from Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador, in Federalismi, April 2026.
Sara Mariella Lambertini Martinez, The Illusion of Safety: Evaluating the U.S.-Ecuador Asylum Agreement, in ADiM Blog, April 2026.
Madalina Moraru and Adel-Naim Reyhani, Evading EU Law Through Summary Returns at Internal Borders: Practice, Legality, and the Role of Courts, in Common Market Law Review, Vol. 63, No.2, 2026.
Chiara Scissa, Evolving asylum deterrence practices in Africa: The case of Tunisia and South Africa, in Rivista di Diritti Comparati, n. 3/2025, 2026.
Mohor Fajdiga, Adel-Naim Reyhani, What Makes a Lawyer a Lawyer? From Michaud v. France to Regvar v. Slovenia, in Völkerrechtsblog, February 2026.
Chiara Scissa, Disaster displacement, trafficking in persons, and asylum in the EU. Insights from the case-law, in Bayes Ahmed and Bishawjit Mallick (eds) Handbook on Climate Mobility. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026.
Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi and Paul McDonough, MSS v Belgium and Greece [2011]: The Interplay between Non-Refoulement and Refugee Protection, in Kirsten McConnachie and Sarah Singer (eds) Landmark Cases in International Refugee Protection. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026.
Chiara Scissa, Mutual trust does not supersede human rights! Italian judges unprecedently recognize the refugee status to an EU citizen, in EU Law Analysis, 2026.
Chiara Scissa, Riconoscimento dello status di rifugiato ad una cittadina europea. Il Tribunale di Bologna fa decadere la presunzione di fiducia reciproca per le gravi violazioni di diritti umani in Ungheria, in Questione Giustizia, 2026.
Book Review by Chiara Scissa of Sebastian Meyer, Salvatore Fabio Nicolosi, Giacomo Solano (eds), The Admission and Integration of Refugees in Europe. Legal and Policy Perspectives, in International Journal of Refugee Law, 2026.
Sara Mariella Lambertini Martinez, The Erosion of Asylum and Due Process in Ecuador’s 2025 LOMH Reforms, in RLI Blog, 2025
Alice Lacchei, Madalina Moraru, Asylum access adjudication: a multi-level framework for socio-legal research, in Journal of Refugee Studies, 2025
Chiara Scissa, EU asylum law and disaster displacement: The Tribunal of Milan’s evolutive yet shaky interpretation of serious harm, in Italian review of international and comparative law, Vol. 1/2025
Madalina Bianca Moraru, Consular Protection and Assistance, in Vincent Chetail, Jittawadee Chotinukul, Giulia Raimondo (eds) Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law. Edward Elgar Publishing, July 2025.
Federica Casarosa, Mohor Fajdiga, Madalina Moraru (eds), Freedom of Expression of Judges. European and National Perspective. Routledge, 2025.
Chiara Scissa, Conflict, health emergencies, and disasters in Somalia: What role can the 1951 Refugee Convention play?, in S. Irudaya Rajan (ed) Handbook of Migration, COVID-19 and Cities. Edward Elgar Publishing, July 2025.
Jane McAdam, Chiara Scissa, How Domestic Courts Are Using International Refugee Law and Human Rights Law in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters, in EJIL:Talk!, November 2024.
Alice Lacchei, Chiara Scissa, The Italy-Albania Protocol: Curbing Migration At All Costs, in Refugee Law Initiative Blog, November 2024
Chiara Scissa, Francesco Luigi Gatta, Access to asylum in times of crises, force majeure and instrumentalization in the EU: Restrictive trends in asylum law and in the case-law, in Freedom, Security and Justice: European Legal Studies, n. 3/2024.
Adel-Naim Reyani, Chiara Scissa, The Court of Justice’s Stance on Safe Countries of Origin: What Implications at the EU and National Levels?, in EU Law Live, 2024.
Review by Chiara Scissa of Il divieto di espulsione collettiva di stranieri nel diritto internazionale e dell’Unione europea by Francesco Luigi Gatta (2023), in Diritto, Immigrazione e Cittadinanza, n. 3/2024.
Madalina Bianca Moraru, Carmen López Esquitino, The Impact of the 2024 CEAS Reform on the EU’s Return System: Amending the Return Directive Through the Backdoor, in EU Migration Law Blog, September 2024.
Alice Lacchei, At the Proof of Time Pressure: Asylum Judges at the Frontline of Asylum Appeals in Italy and France" in Rivista italiana di politiche pubbliche, August 2024.
Chiara Scissa, The role of Courts in the era of EU externalization policies: A focus on Libya, Tunisia, and Niger, in RLI Blog, July 2024.
Adel-Naim Reyhani, Externalization and the Rightlessness of Refugees: An Analytical Framework, Externalizing Asylum, July 2024.
Madalina Moraru, The interplay between the Schengen Borders Code and the Return Directive - another episode in the reintroduction of internal border controls saga - C-143/22, ADDE and others, Eulawlive Op-Ed, 18 October 2023.
Adel-Naim Reyhani, Das BBU-Erkenntnis des VfGH – Interpretationen und Implikationen, Blog Asyl, 13 February 2024.
Cristina Dallara and Alice Lacchei, "Country you go, asylum adjudication you find". Asylum appeals implementation arrangements, actors' discretion, and organizational practices, Review of Policy Research, 23 March 2024.
Madalina Moraru and Adel-Naim Reyhani, Interpreting the Dublin Regulation amid fundamental rights violations at the EU’s border – Reflections on the Judgment of the Court of Justice in X v Staatssecretaris van Justitie en Veiligheid, C-392/22, in EU Law live, 15 April 2024.

WORKING PAPERS

Vijayaraghavan, Hamsa (2026) India National Report. Bologna: University of Bologna, p. 108. DOI: 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/9010, https://amsacta.unibo.it/id/eprint/9010/
Lambertini Martinez, Sara Mariella (2026) Brazil National Report. Bologna: University of Bologna. DOI: 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/9006, https://amsacta.unibo.it/id/eprint/9006/
Scissa, Chiara (2026) South Africa National Report. Bologna: University of Bologna, p. 106. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/8977.
Lambertini Martinez, Sara Mariella (2026) Ecuador National Report. Bologna: University of Bologna, p. 144. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/8978.