Violeta Moreno-Lax is ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona and Full Professor of Law (on leave) at Queen Mary University of London, where she has served as inaugural director of the (B)OrderS Centre and founding co-director of CEILA. She specialises in international and EU law, border violence, global security, and human rights. She regularly consults for UN agencies, the EU institutions, and other organisations in these fields. Her work has been cited by leading courts, including the CJEU or the Belgian Conseil d’État. She is Visiting Professor of the College of Europe, legal adviser and founding member of de:border, and sits in the Editorial Boards of European Journal of Migration and Law and International Journal of Refugee Law. Her research has been supported by a Ramón y Cajal grant, the NYU Emile Noël programme, a Fernand Braudel Senior Research Fellowship at the EUI, the EU Jean Monnet and H2020 programmes, the British Academy, and the Leverhulme Trust.

Professor Moreno-Lax is generally interested in:

-International and European refugee law and critical IR, migration, borders, and security studies;

-Public international law, especially the study of jurisdiction, the responsibility of States and international organisations, regime relations and constitutionalisation / fragmentation processes, the law of the sea, and the law of treaties;

-EU law, with a particular focus on values, constitutional foundations and general principles, external relations and the external aspects of border and migration policy, EU citizenship, the free movement of persons, and justice and home affairs at large;

-Human rights, including universal and regional systems of protection and the philosophical foundations of individual liberties.