Biography

Madalina Moraru (PhD in Law) is currently a part-time Assistant Professor at the Centre for Judicial Cooperation of the European University Institute (EUI). She obtained her PhD from the EUI in 2015 with a thesis entitled Protecting (unrepresented) EU citizens in third countries: the intertwining roles of the EU and its Member States. She has a magna cum laude LLM in European Law from Durham University (2008), as well as from the EUI (2010), and a law degree from the Faculty of Law, Bucharest (2007). She has been a Research Policy Officer for the LIBE Committee of the European Parliament; and a Visiting Fellow at the Court of Justice of the European Union. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Law Faculty, Masaryk University in Czech Republic. She has authored numerous publications on the role of courts in shaping refugee and migration law, EU citizenship, migration, rule of law and judicial interactions on fundamental rights. She has been awarded numerous grants from European and national funding agencies. Her CV is available here, and the full list of grant and publications is available on her ORCID profile.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• POLINE
• E-Justice ODR Scheme

Completed

• Citizenship, migration and mobility in a pandemic: a global study of COVID-19 restrictions on human movement
• TRust, Independence, Impartiality and Accountability of judges and arbitrators under the EU Charter

Recent research output

• (2022), TRIIAL national reports Belgium, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, The Netherlands, Working Paper
• CORNELISSE, Galina; MORARU, Madalina Bianca (2022), Judicial interactions on the European Return Directive : shifting borders and the constitutionalisation of irregular migration governance, Article
• MORARU, Madalina Bianca; BERCEA, Raluca (2022), The first episode in the Romanian rule of law saga : joined cases C-83/19, C-127/19, C-195/19, C-291/19, C-355/19 and C-397/19, Asociaţia ‘Forumul Judecătorilor din România', and their follow-up at the national level, Article
• MORARU, Madalina Bianca (2022), The European Court of Justice shaping the right to be heard for asylum seekers, returnees, and visa applicants : an exercise in judicial diplomacy, Article
• FEDERICO, Veronica; MORARU, Madalina Bianca; PANNIA, Paola (2022), Editorial : the growing but uneven role of European courts in (im)migration governance : a comparative perspective, Article
• MORARU, Madalina Bianca (2022), Return directive, Contribution to book

Fields of Interest

• Asylum and refugee law
• EU citizenship and migration
• Fundamental Rights
• Rule of law
• The law and policies of EU external relations
• Public international and comparative law