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Silvia Adamo

PhD., Master of Laws

  • Karen Blixens Plads 16

    2300 København S

  • Source: Scopus
20072023

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Personal profile

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Silvia Adamo is Associate Professor in Immigration Law and Integration Law. She is the recipient of the 2019 Semper Ardens: Accerelate Fellowship by the Carlsberg Foundation for her research project Law and Private Governance for a New Understanding of Immigrant Integration (2020-2025). Silvia is affiliated with the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law (University of California, Los Angeles). She has also been a member of the Queen Mary Center - Knowledge. Partnerships. Change at UCPH with a research project on foreign doctors in Denmark: Language, expectations and highly skilled international labour force, interdisciplinary research team at the University of Copenhagen (2021–2022).

Silvia Adamo is born and raised in Italy, where she lived the first 21 years of her life. She has since lived in Denmark, Portugal, Canada, and the US. She was the first Italian to complete a LLM (Cand. Jur.) and later a Ph.D. at the Faculty of Law of the University of Copenhagen, under the supervision of Henrik Zahle. Silvia is fluent in Danish, English, Portuguese, French, and Spanish, and is a native speaker of Italian.

She has studied law in Italy (Università di Pisa) and Portugal (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa). 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, Representation in Portugal.

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 CEPRI, Centre for Private Governace.
Editor, Retfærd, Nordic Journal of Law and Justice.

Grants
Semper Ardens: Accelerate (4.291.896 DKK) , Law and Private Governance for a New Understanding of Immigrant Integration. Grant by the Carlsberg Foundation.
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: Immigration Law, Integration Law (at the Faculty of Law); 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.

Keywords

  • Faculty of Law
  • Citizenship Law
  • Political Philosophy
  • Multiculturalism
  • Immigration Law
  • Integration Law
  • Public International Law

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