Bio
Dr. Sílvia Morgades-Gil is Senior Lecturer in Public International Law, at the Department of Law, Pompeu Fabra University (C. Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27, 08005 Barcelona, Spain). She is member of the Research Group on Public International Law and International Relations and the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration (GRITIM-UPF, IMISCOE Member). She is also member of the Barcelona Bar Association and collaborates as legal advisor with CEAR (Comissió Catalana d’Ajuda al Refugiat) and StopMareMortum. She teaches EU Law; Asylum and Refugee Law; and International Migrations Law at Pompeu Fabra University; Universitat de Barcelona and CEI-International Affairs.
She obtained the Extraordinary Prize for her Doctoral Thesis in the Department of Law of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra), and the First Prize in Human Rights for her book Els drets humans com a motor de l'evolució del règim internacional de protecció dels refugiats (Human rights as an engine for the evolution of the international regime of refugee protection, Barcelona, Generalitat de Catalunya, 2008). She has worked as a doctoral researcher at the University Robert Schuman of Strasbourg; and as visiting post-doctoral researcher at the Université Paris 1-Sorbonne; and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies-IHEID, Geneva.
Sílvia Morgades-Gil retains a research interest in the interaction between Public International Law and European Law as regards the legal status of refugees and people in need of protection. Currently she participates as researcher in two Research Projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness: Las politicas de asilo de la UE: Confluencias entre las dimensiones interna y externa (Eurasylum)[The European asylum policies of the EU: External and Internal dimension and confluences; in Deusto University (Bilbao, Spain)] and La construcción de normas globales a examen: el impacto transformador del cosmopolitismo y el resurgir de Westfalia [The construction of global norms: Impact on cosmopolitanism and the revival of Westfalia; in UPF (Barcelona)].
Recent Publiications
- From Refugees to Rejected the Dublin System and the Right to Seek Asylum in the European Union, Tirant lo Blanch, 2021
- “Un espacio de libre movilidad en Europa, ¿Para quién y hasta cuándo?” (An area of freedom of movement in Europe. For whom and until when?), Fernando Guirao, Josep Pich Mitjana (eds.), ¿Una Unión Europea en crisis? Reflexiones para un debate urgente [A European Union in crisis? Reflections for a debate], Madrid: Ediciones La Catarata, 2019, pp. 119-144.
- “Forced Migration management and the right to access to an asylum procedure in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: Human rights between responsibility and solidarity”, Freedom, Security & Justice: European Legal Studies, n.1, 2017, http://www.fsjeurostudies.eu/files/2017.1.-FSJ_Morgades-Gil_7.pdf
- “El interés superior de los menores demandantes de asilo en la jurisprudencia del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea” (The best interest of the child asylum seeker in the jurisprudence of the Cour of Justice of the EU). In Susana Caballero Sanz, María del Mar Molina Navarro (dir.), El interés superior del niño en la jurisprudencia internacional, comparada y española [The best interest of the child in jurisprudence: international, compared, an Spanish], Cizur Menor (Navarra), Aranzadi, 2017, pp. 329-340.
- “Humanitarian Visas and EU Law: Do States Have Limits to Their Discretionary Power to Issue Humanitarian Visas?”, European Papers, vol. 2-3, 2017, pp. 1005-1016: http://europeanpapers.eu/en/system/files/pdf_version/EP_EF_2017_I_044_Silvia_Morgades_Gil_0.pdf
- “La protection internationale des femmes pour des raisons liées au genre en droit international. Interprétations récentes des instruments de droit international soutenant des formes de protection subsidiaire”, Revue Générale de Droit International Public, tome 117, nº. 1, 2013, pp. 37-73.