Silvia Adamo

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Recent news
I have just been awarded a Young Resercher Fellowship by the Carlsberg Foundation (DKK 4,291,896) for my new research project Law and Private Governance for a New Understanding of Immigrant Integration.

About
Silvia Adamo received her Ph.D. in Law at the University of Copenhagen. She has studied law in Italy (Università di Pisa) and Portugal (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa), and completed her Cand. Jur./LL.M. in Denmark (Københavns Universitet). Silvia Adamo has held visiting fellowships at the Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, Canada (2006); Berkeley School of Law, University of California (2011); and the European University Institute, Florence (2012). Prior to starting her Ph.D. she interned at the European Commission.

Areas of expertise
Danish immigration law
Integration law and policy
Danish nationality law
Citizenship law and theory
Migration and integration in a private/public law context

Memberships
Associate Professor at CEVIA, Center for Enterprise Liability.
Editor, Retfærd, Nordic Journal of Law and Justice.
Contact person at the Faculty of Law, Network for Human Rights Research in Denmark.

Grants
International Network Program (287,574 DKK). Grant by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science for an international research network on integration of immigrants: TIGRE (2017-2019).

Three-year Postdoctoral Fellowship (2,240,000 DKK). Grant by the Danish Council for Independent Research (FSE) for a research project on immigration (2009–2012).

Consortium member in the international collaborative research project bEUcitizen: Barriers towards European Citizenship, funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (2014–2016).

Awards for research from private foundations: Dr. Jur. Max Sørensens Mindefond, C.L. Davids Legat til minde om P.M. Gertz, Julie von Müllens Fond, Axel H’s Rejselegat og Augustinus Fonden.

Courses taught
BA courses: Legal system and legal method, Law, Morality and Politics, Danish constitutional law and EU constitutional law; Tort law and contract law
MA courses: Introduction to international migration law; integration law (at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies, University of Copenhagen)

Contact
Email: [email protected] or phone: + 45 - 35 33 14 05. I answer emails every day after 12 PM.