Virginia Passalacqua

Ricercatore/Ricercatrice a tempo determinato di tipo A

Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza
SSD: IUS/14 - diritto dell'unione europea
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-3834-6966

Contatti

Prodotti della ricerca selezionati

Legal Mobilization for Migrant Rights: Opportunities and Barriers at the European Court of Justice
2025-01-01 Virginia Passalacqua https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/2061470

Explore the Silence: The Absence of Preliminary References from Greek Courts on Migration and Asylum
2024-01-01 Passalacqua, Virginia https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/2052370

The law and facts of the preliminary reference procedure: a critical assessment of the EU Court of Justice’s source of knowledge
2023-01-01 Virginia Passalacqua; Francesco Costamagna https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1941777

Who Mobilizes the Court? Migrant Rights Defenders Before the Court of Justice of the EU
2022-01-01 Virginia Passalacqua https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1890697

Has the seasonal workers directive missed its target? Evidence from Italy during the pandemic
2022-01-01 Virginia Passalacqua https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1890699

Legal mobilization via preliminary reference: Insights from the case of migrant rights
2021-01-01 Virginia Passalacqua https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1890656

Diritto di residenza per il cittadino dell’unione che dispone di risorse sufficienti derivanti da attività lavorativa illegale
2021-01-01 Virginia Passalacqua https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1890720

Revoca dello stato di lungo soggiornante e ordine pubblico: Secondo tentativo per le corti spagnole
2021-01-01 Virginia Passalacqua https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1890723

Homophobic Statements and Hypothetical Discrimination: Expanding the Scope of Directive 2000/78/EC: ECJ 23 April 2020, Case C-507/18, Associazione Avvocatura per i diritti LGBTI
2020-01-01 Virginia Passalacqua https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1890648

Advancing EU equality law in Italy: Between unsystematic implementation and decentralized enforcement
2017-01-01 Virginia Passalacqua https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1890710

El Dridi upside down: a case of legal mobilization for undocumented migrants' rights in Italy
2016-01-01 Virginia Passalacqua https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1890703

Insegnamenti

Diritto del processo e del contenzioso dell'UE (GIU0844)
Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza
European Union Law (M-Z) (GIU0757)
Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza
Politiche ambientali e agricole dell'UE (a distanza) - Cuneo (GIU0917)
Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

Diritto dell'Unione Europea e politica agricola (a distanza)

Temi di ricerca

Virginia Passalacqua conducts research in the fields of European Union law, migration, and legal mobilization, which she investigates with a law-in-context perspective. In 2025, she has published a book with Oxford University Press, tited “Legal Mobilization for Migrant Rights: Opportunities and Barriers at the European Court of Justice”, where she investigates why civil society actors engage in EU litigation for migrant rights in some countries but not in others. By relying on comparative and empirical (qualitative) research, the book uncovers the conditions that favor or hamper mobilization via the Court of Justice of the EU.

Virginia holds a degree in law (cum laude) from the University of Bologna and a Ph.D. in EU law from the European University Institute, where she worked under the supervision of Professor Bruno de Witte. Her dissertation was awarded the Mauro Cappelletti Prize for the Best EUI Thesis in Comparative Law and her paper, "Altruism, Euro-Expertise and Open EU Legal Opportunity Structure: Empirical Insights on Legal Mobilization Before the CJEU in the Migration Field" was awarded the Ius Commune Prize 2020.

Virginia works as an Assistant Professor at the University of Turin, where she teaches EU law. Previously, she was an Emile Noël Fellow at NYU, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Utrecht University and at Collegio Carlo Alberto, and an Academic Fellow at Bocconi University. She held visiting positions at the London School of Economics, at Oxford University, and at the University of Copenhagen.