Biography

Madalina Moraru (PhD in Law) is currently a part-time Assistant Professor at the Centre for Judicial Cooperation of the European University Institute (EUI). She obtained her PhD from the EUI in 2015 with a thesis entitled Protecting (unrepresented) EU citizens in third countries: the intertwining roles of the EU and its Member States. She has a magna cum laude LLM in European Law from Durham University (2008), as well as from the EUI (2010), and a law degree from the Faculty of Law, Bucharest (2007). She has been a Research Policy Officer for the LIBE Committee of the European Parliament; and a Visiting Fellow at the Court of Justice of the European Union. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Law Faculty, Masaryk University in Czech Republic. She has authored numerous publications on the role of courts in shaping refugee and migration law, EU citizenship, migration, rule of law and judicial interactions on fundamental rights. She has been awarded numerous grants from European and national funding agencies. Her CV is available here, and the full list of grant and publications is available on her ORCID profile.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• POLINE

Completed

• Citizenship, migration and mobility in a pandemic: a global study of COVID-19 restrictions on human movement
• TRust, Independence, Impartiality and Accountability of judges and arbitrators under the EU Charter
• E-Justice ODR Scheme

Recent research output

• CASAROSA, Federica; FAJDIGA, Mohor; MORARU, Madalina Bianca (2025), Should judicial voices be heard? : judicial interactions between national and European courts reframing freedom of expression as a tool to protect the European rule of law , Contribution to book
• CASAROSA, Federica; FAJDIGA, Mohor; MORARU, Madalina Bianca (2025), Freedom of expression of judges : European and national perspectives , Book
• FEDERICO, Veronica; MORARU, Madalina Bianca; PANNIA, Paola (2022), Editorial : the growing but uneven role of European courts in (im)migration governance : a comparative perspective , Article
• LUTZ, Fabian; MANANASHVILI, Sergo; MORARU, Madalina Bianca (2022), Commentary of the return directive , Contribution to book
• MORARU, Madalina Bianca; CLEMENT, Marc (2022), Judicial interactions upholding the right to be heard of asylum seekers, returnees and immigrants : the symbiotic protection of the EU Charter and general principles of EU law , Contribution to book
• MORARU, Madalina Bianca (2022), Return directive , Contribution to book

Fields of Interest

• Asylum and refugee law
• EU citizenship and migration
• Fundamental Rights
• Rule of law
• The law and policies of EU external relations
• Public international and comparative law