Chiara Berneri
PhD Title: The Issue of Family Reunification between EU citizens and Third Country Nationals
School/Centre: The City Law School
Email: Chiara.Berneri.1@city.ac.uk
Chiara's PhD thesis looks at the issue of family reunification between EU citizens and third country nationals. The main task of this research is to underline the EU approach on this issue and to highlight critically the problems that this approach could trigger both at national and European level.
Chiara studied her undergraduate degree at the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (giurisprudenza) and went on to take her LLM in European Law at the University of Edinburgh.
Previously, she worked for LCG law firm in Milan from 2007 -2008) before undertaking a internship at the Immigration Advisory Service in summer 2009 as paralegal.
Publications
- Il diritto dei familiari extracomunitari di cittadini dell'Unione a risiedere in uno stato membro, in Quaderni Costituzionali, 2009(2), 413-415
- Chiara Berneri, "Le pronunce Zambrano e McCarthy: gli ultimi sviluppi giurisprudenziali sulle unioni famigliari tra cittadini comunitari ed extracomunitari", in Quaderni Costituzionali, 2011
- Chiara Berneri, "Chen e la cronaca di una rivoluzione: la Cittadinanza dell'Unione Europea" (book chapter), in M. Cartabia Dieci casi sui diritti in Europa. Uno strumento didattico, ed. Mulino, 2011.
Conferences attended:
- Paper presented entitled: "Family Reunifications between EU citizens and third country nationals: a new conceptual development" in April 2011 at SLSA conference in Brighton
- Paper presented entitled: "Family Reunifications between EU citizens and third country nationals: a new conceptual development" in June 2011 at City University PHD conference in London
- Participated in the International Graduate Legal Research Conference (April 2012, King's College London)
Conferences chaired:
- Organised and chaired a talk entitled "The Cross Examination: seeking a solution to the religious symbol dilemma in Europe" held in March 2011 at Notre Dame University, London. Speakers: Marta Cartabia and Nicholas Hatzis.
