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Maria Ullits Pallesen Fonseca serves as an Assistant Professor in the Law Department at Aalborg University's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is affiliated with the Nordic Center for Comparative and International Family Law and the SPARC (Social, Public and Administrative Law Research Centre). Her institutional base is at Fibigerstræde 4, 9220 Aalborg East, Denmark, with verified contact via telephone (+4599403026) and email.
Her academic foundation includes a PhD awarded in 2017 for her thesis Judicial review and reasonable case processing times in parental responsibility cases, which exposed critical human rights deficiencies in Denmark's pre-2019 family law system where access cases lacked judicial review – violating ECHR Article 6. Her research demonstrates the independent significance of ECHR Articles 6 and 8 in custody/residence matters, particularly regarding case processing delays.
Her research program centers on family law with specialized focus on the Parental Responsibility Act, Danish family law systems, children's rights, and intersections with social law and human rights. Recent publications analyze Danish child law reforms (2024), consent frameworks in parental responsibility (2024), and presumptions against parental contact (2024), reflecting her expertise in judicial policy and child welfare standards. Her work bridges theoretical human rights principles with practical case processing realities.
As an educator, she teaches family and inheritance law in the law program's 3rd semester, and rules on vulnerable children in social work programs (3rd/6th semesters). She coordinates the 6th-semester elective module on vulnerable children and serves as thesis supervisor for bachelor's/master's students in law and business law programs. Her professional experience includes hands-on work as a Family Court lawyer (2020-2023), providing direct insight into custody, residence, and access case handling.
Her academic engagement spans conference participation (Administrative Law Conference 2024), workshop organization (NorFam's ART-Equal project on reproductive technology), and guest research at the Institute for Human Rights (2014). Her ORCID profile (0009-0007-6484-587X) documents her scholarly output across eight publications since 2013, including journal articles, book chapters, and legislative consultation responses.
