Professor Carmen Draghici • City, University of London

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Professor Carmen Draghici MLG, Myddelton Street Building
City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

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About

Overview

Professor Carmen Draghici joined The City Law School in September 2009. She specialises in Human Rights Law, with a particular interest in the interpretation and application of the European Convention on Human Rights, and Family and Child Law in England and Wales. She is also a Senior Fellow of the UK's Higher Education Academy, an Academic Fellow of the Inner Temple (2018 appointment), a member of the practice-focused Centre for Child and Family Law Reform (since 2010) and a Visiting Professor at the Open University of Catalonia (since 2009). She was formerly a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program (2015), a Visiting Research Scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (2012), and a Leverhulme Visiting Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict, University of East London (2008). Professor Draghici holds a PhD degree in International Law and Human Rights from the University of Rome ‘Sapienza’ (awarded in 2007).

Professor Draghici has authored a monograph on the development of family rights in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights ("The Legitimacy of Family Rights in Strasbourg Case Law: ‘Living Instrument’ or Extinguished Sovereignty?", Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2017), as well as journal articles and book chapters on the right to respect for private and family life, non-discrimination, freedom of expression, the protection of civil liberties in the context of counter-terrorism, and the relationship between international human rights norms and domestic law. Recent titles include: “Unplanned Fatherhood is Not Sperm Donation: The Unduly Moralistic Approach to Natural Fathers in European Convention Case Law” (2022) 2 Child and Family Law Quarterly 123-147; “Adult Children and Elderly Parents in Strasbourg Proceedings: A Misconstrued Approach to ‘Family Life’” (2018) 1 International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 42-62; “Equal Marriage, Unequal Civil Partnership: A Bizarre Case of Discrimination in Europe” (2017) 4 Child and Family Law Quarterly 313-334; “The Strasbourg Court between European and Local Consensus: Anti-Democratic or Guardian of Democratic Process?” (2017) (Jan) Public Law 11-29.

In addition to her academic work and links with the legal profession, Professor Draghici has collaborated since 2011 with the International Federation of Journalists in an advisory capacity, supporting their advocacy efforts at UN level for improved international guarantees for media workers, in particular by preparing and promoting a Draft UN Convention on the Safety and Independence of Journalists and Other Media Professionals.

Qualifications

PhD, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, 2007

Postgraduate training

Post-Graduate Diploma in Higher Education (Technology Enabled), City University London, London, United Kingdom

Administrative roles

Assistant Dean (Research), The City Law School, Sep 2020 – present
Impact Lead for Law, The City Law School, Jul – Sep 2020

Employment

Professor of Law, City, University of London, Aug 2022 – present
Reader in Law, City, University of London, Aug 2018 – Jul 2022
Senior Lecturer in Law, City, University of London, Aug 2012 – Jul 2018
Lecturer in Law, City University of London, Sep 2009 – Jul 2012

Fellowships

Academic Fellow of the Inner Temple, Inner Temple, Nov 2018 – present

Languages

French (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review), Italian (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review) and Spanish; Castilian (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review).

Research

PhD supervision

Carmen welcomes approaches for supervision from prospective PhD students in the areas of international human rights law, public international law and family and child law.

Publications

Publications by category

Book

Draghici, C. (2017). The Legitimacy of Family Rights in Strasbourg Case Law: ‘Living Instrument’ or Extinguished Sovereignty? Oxford: Hart Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5099-0525-6.

Chapters (13)

Draghici, C. (2022). Divorced from Human Rights? English Divorce Law under Human-Rights Scrutiny. In Miles, J., Monk, D. and Probert, R. (Eds.), Fifty Years of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 London, UK: Hart Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5099-4788-1.
Draghici, C. (2022). Putative Fathers in English Law: A Human Rights Perspective. In Gilmore, S. and Sherpe, J. (Eds.), Family Matters. Essays in Honour of John Eekelaar (pp. 595–609). Cambridge: Intersentia. ISBN 978-1-83970-189-4.
Draghici, C. (2021). Chapter 2 : "Assisted dying". In Loveland, I. (Ed.), British and Canadian Public Law in Comparative Perspective (pp. 29–74). Hart Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5099-3109-5.
Draghici, C. (2013). The development of self-contained regimes as an obstacle to UN global governance. International Law in a Multipolar World (pp. 283–302). ISBN 978-0-415-56521-9.
Draghici, C. (2013). Prohibición de la esclavitud y del trabajo forzoso. In Zanghì, C. (Ed.), Jurisprudencia regional comparada de derechos humanos. El Tribunal europeo y la Corte interamericana (pp. 291–320). Valencia: Tirant Lo Blanch. ISBN 978-84-9033-444-7.
Draghici, C. (2012). Las competencias personales del Estado. Derecho internacional publico Valencia: Huygens. ISBN 978-84-15663-11-9.
Draghici, C. (2011). Adoption and the European Court of Human Rights: from Laissez-faire to Judicial Law-Making. In Panella, L. and Spatafora, E. (Eds.), Scritti in Onore di Claudio Zanghì (pp. 255–282). Milan: Giuffrè Editore. ISBN 978-88-348-2580-8.
Draghici, C. (2011). The Human-Rights Compliance of UK Anti-Terrorism Legislation in the Light of Domestic and International Case Law. In Guarino, G. and D'Anna, I. (Eds.), International Institutions and Cooperation: Terrorism, Migrations, Asylum (pp. 673–714). Naples: Satura Editrice.
Draghici, C. (2010). The Human Costs of the Iraq War and US International Responsibility. In Guarino, G. and D'Anna, I. (Eds.), International conflicts and human rights: Caucasus, Balkans, Middle East and Horn of Africa (Napoli Colloquium, 2-4 July 2009) (pp. 733–773). Naples: Satura Editrice. ISBN 978-88-7607-080-8.
Draghici, C. (2009). L’applicazione della dottrina ‘clean hands’ all’esercizio della protezione diplomatica (The Application of the ‘Clean Hands’ Doctrine to the Exercise of Diplomatic Protection). In Panella, L. (Ed.), La protezione diplomatica: sviluppi e prospettive (Diplomatic Protection: Developments and Prospects) (pp. 151–190). Torino: Giappichelli. ISBN 978-88-348-9745-4.
Draghici, C. (2009). The 'Global War on Terror'. In Sriram, C.L., Martin-Ortega, O. and Herman, J. (Eds.), War, Conflict and Human Rights: Theory and Practice (pp. 138–159). London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 978-0-415-45206-9.
Draghici, C. (2009). Las competencias personales del Estado. Derecho internacional público (pp. 261–278). Barcelona: Huygens Editorial. ISBN 978-84-15663-11-9.
Draghici, C. (2005). Le principe de non-discrimination dans la nouvelle Charte arabe des droits de l’homme: une réforme inachevée. In Zanghì, C. and Ben Achour, R. (Eds.), La Nouvelle Charte Arabe des droits de l’homme. Dialogue italo-arabe (pp. 449–488). Turin: Giappichelli. ISBN 978-88-348-5764-9.