Country of residence

Italy

Brief introduction

Research Fellow, Università di Cagliari

Education

PhD in Law, 2010, University of Essex

Academic profile

My research interests are in the area of international human rights law in general, and more specifically I am interested in the law related to the rights of minorities; prohibition of discrimination (especially on racial grounds); in cultural rights and the right to culture. My doctoral thesis is becoming a book, to be published by Brill, and among my most recent publications there is a paper to be published on the next issue of the European Yearbook of Minority Issues.

Publications

• The Protection of the Cultural Identity of Minorities in International Law: Individual versus Collective Rights, European Yearbook of Minority Issues volume 9 (2010)
• Keeping the Criminality Myth Alive: Stigmatisation of Roma through the Italian Media, published on The Roma Rights Quarterly n. 1, 2005, also available at http://www.errc.org/cikk.php?cikk=2168
• Book: Collective rights and the cultural identity of the Roma: A case study of Italy, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers/Brill Academic, 2012

Keywords

Racial discrimination, cultural identity, minorities, freedom of expression

Contact

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