Dr Delia Ferri joined the Maynooth University Department of Law in September 2014. She holds a Master in Law (Laurea in Giurisprudenza) awarded 110/110 magna cum laude from the University of Verona School of Law, an LL.M. in International and European Business Law (First Class Honours with Distinction) from Trinity College Dublin, and a Doctorate in European and Italian Constitutional Law from the University of Verona (Italy). Delia is also a qualified attorney at law (Avvocato), enrolled at Verona Bar since 2008.
Before joining the Department of Law, Delia was a Research Associate at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy of the National University of Ireland Galway and lectured at the Irish Centre for Human Rights. She also collaborated with the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento (Italy). In addition, she has worked for a law firm in Verona and carried out substantial activity as an independent legal consultant for different NGOs, research centres, and international law firms, such as Human European Consultancy B.V (The Netherlands), Konrad Stiftung Adenauer Foundation (Italy/Germany) European Foundation Centre (Belgium), Germann Avocats (Switzerland). Since 2004, Delia has taken part in different academic research projects and policy-oriented studies, mainly covering the fields of EU Law, European Constitutional Law, and International and Comparative Disability Law.