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ELEANOR SPAVENTA

ELEANOR SPAVENTA
Full Professor
Department of Law

Biographical note

I hold a laurea in law from the Universita' La Sapienza in Rome, an LL.M in European Law from the University of Cambridge, and a D.Phil in European Law from the University of Oxford. I started my academic career as a Norton Rose European Law Lecturer at the University of Cambridge (New Hall, now Murray Edwards, 2000-2004), where I taught European Law, and supervised EU law and UK Constitutional Law. I also acted as Director of Studies for the College. I then moved to the University of Birmingham, where I was a lecturer from 2004-to 2006 and to Durham Law School, where I was first Reader and the Professor of European Union Law (2006-2018). Whilst at Durham I was also the Director of the Durham European Law Institute (2006-2011; and 2016-17).  
I have been visiting professor in several institutions, including the College of Europe in Natolin, and I held fellowships at the European University Institute (Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship) and at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Durham.


About

I have authored and co-authored reports commissioned by the European Parliament PETI committee and by the European Commission (DG EMPL), as well as giving evidence to national policy makers. My work has been quoted by several Advocates General in front of the European Court of Justice.


Research interests

European Union Law, European Union constitutional Law, EU Fundamental Rights, EU internal Market, EU citizenship, Brexit.


Selected Publications


Spaventa, Eleanor
Fundamental rights in EU law
European Union Law, 2017

Eleanor Spaventa
Earned citzenship: understanding union citizenship through its scope
EU citizenship and federalism : the role of rights, 2017



Spaventa, Eleanor
Economic justifications and Union Citizenship: Reallocating welfare responsibilities to the State of origin
P Koutrakos, N Nic Shuibhne & P Syrpis, Exceptions from EU Free Movement Law - Derogation, Justification and Proportionality (Oxford, Hart Publishing), 2016

Spaventa, Eleanor
What is left of Union Citizenship?
Inclusion and Exclusion in the European Union – collected papers, Amesterdam, 2016

Eleanor Spaventa
Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. Who does not belong here anymore? Expulsion measures
Residence, employment and social rights of mobile persons : on how EU law defines where they belong, 2016

Spaventa, Eleanor
A very fearful Court? The protection of fundamental rights in the EU after Opinion 2/13
MAASTRICHT JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN AND COMPARATIVE LAW, 2015

Eleanor Spaventa
The free movement of workers in the twenty-first century
The Oxford handbook of European Union law, 2015