Sonia Morano-Foadi

Professor Sonia Morano-Foadi is a leading scholar in European Law at Oxford Brookes University’s School of Law and Social Sciences, serving as Postgraduate Research Tutor and convenor of the Fundamental Rights, Equality and Diversity (FRED) research group. She specializes in EU citizenship, migration law, and human rights, integrating doctrinal analysis with socio-legal approaches to examine regional integration, refugee rights, and anti-trafficking frameworks.

Her research explores critical intersections of fundamental rights with migration governance, including:

• EU citizenship and third-country nationals' rights
• Labor market integration for refugees
• Human trafficking vulnerability frameworks
• Comparative regional integration (EU/CARICOM)

Recent work focuses on bottom-up solidarity models for refugee employment and Frontex’s evolving mandate.

Morano-Foadi maintains active engagement with European institutions, having advised the European Parliament on ECHR accession and trained judges at the Academy of European Law. She secured significant grants, including a €295,000 EU project on human trafficking and British Academy funding. Her 2020 monograph Protection of Fundamental Rights in Europe received high-level judicial endorsements.

Awards:

• Best Taught Module Award (2016)
• University ACE Award (2020)

She supervises doctoral candidates researching migration law, hate speech, and labor mobility. As external examiner for multiple UK universities, she shapes legal education nationally.