María Teresa Gil Bazo, Chair Jean Monnet ad personam at programs of study Europeans

Professor María Teresa Gil Bazo, Professor of International Law and International Relations, has received a Jean Monnet ad personamChair in programs of study Europeans. The Chairs Jean Monnet is awarded by the European Union and can be applied for by professors attached to universities around the world who demonstrate a track record of excellence at research and teaching at programs of study Europeans.

The main goal of the Chairs Jean Monnet is to support university institutions in the deepening of the teaching of programs of study European within official programs of study plans, as well as to provide a more qualified teaching on European topics by specialists.

This Chair is accompanied by a three-year funding period for the development of a project of activities of teaching, research and transfer of knowledge. Professor Gil Bazo will thus carry out activities in the framework of the European Union's policies on asylum and migration, and specifically in the context of the New Pact on Asylum and Migration adopted by the European Union in June this year, a package of nine legislative instruments that radically transforms the asylum regime in Europe and modifies instruments in subject of immigration and border control.

Collaborating with this Chair will be the professor of the School of Philosophy and Letters, Carolina Montoro, in her subject PPE Lab (service-learning in partnership with the Red Cross in attention to immigrants) of the Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics-PPE; as well as the professor of the School of Law, Joseba Fernández Gaztea, in the framework of the subject Law of the European Union, which he teaches in the Degree in International Relations.

Expert in International Human Rights and Refugee Law

Professor María Teresa Gil Bazo has a specialized career in this area of Law and International Relations, developed for 16 years in British universities of the Russell group and for five, in Brussels, in which stands out the obtaining by merit competition of the place of Professor of International Human Rights Law and International Refugee Law at the University of Oxford (2004-2007). She was appointed as External Expert of the European Union Asylum Agency (EUAA, formerly EASO, 2015-2019); chair, together with Judge Bostjan Zalar, of the group Fundamental Rights of the European Law Institute; and it should be noted her membership as Research Associate at the African Centre on Migration and Society of the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa), a university participating in numerous projects funded by the Horizon Programme of the European Union.

Some of his publications have been selected by publishing house Oxford University Press as advanced materials for reference letter in International Refugee Law and its interdisciplinary research , funded by committee researcher on economic and social issues (ESRC, now UKRI, the UK's independent body for awarding research public funds to British universities), and carried out at partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières on the impact of the asylum system in South Africa on the psycho-social health of asylum seekers, has been selected by publishing house as research of high impact. María Teresa Gil Bazo has been part of Spanish OSCE and UN missions with NATO in Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina.