Prof Dr. Adele Del Guercio

Presentation Title: The protection of people moving in the context of climate change and environmental degradation

University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy

Past Speaker

Adele Del Guercio is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Naples L’Orientale, where she teaches EU Law and International Environmental Law. She has published a monograph on asylum law and numerous articles on the right of asylum, migration connected with climate change, migration by sea, the protection of minor migrants. She is the local coordinator of the research project PRIN “MOBS. Mobilities, solidarities and imaginaries across the borders: the mountain, the sea, the urban and the rural as spaces of transit and encounters” and she is responsible for a legal clinic on migration and asylum. She is the winner of the PRA (University Research Project) “Anthropocene/Capitalocene and international migrations. of A critical reading”. She is the delegate of Rector for the UNHCR’s project “UNICORE – University Corridors for Refugees”.