Professor Francesca Strumia

Overview

Professor Francesca Strumia joined the City Law School in August 2022, from the University of Sheffield where she had spent 8 years as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, leading the School of Law relations with international law firms, and serving as the Director of Internationalisation from 2020 to 2022.

Professor Strumia is a leading expert on citizenship and nationality. She has written extensively on the relation between citizenship, migration and mobility, bringing into conversation questions about European supranational citizenship and the theory of transnational and multi-level citizenship. She is the author of more than 20 articles and 2 books on these subjects. Her work on European citizenship is cited in the major US and EU textbooks on EU law, as well as in the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU. Professor Strumia's research also explores the relation between citizenship, migration and cosmopolitanism ('The Citizen as Other: the Case from Within for Cosmopolitan State Duties and Freedom to Migrate, Common Market Law Review 2024). A strand of Professor Strumia's work focuses on skilled migration, and in particular on investment migration ('Opening the Ranks of Constitutional Subjects: Immigration, Identity and innovation in Italy and Canada' - co-authored with Prof. Asha Kaushal, German Law Journal 2017; 'New Generation Skilled Migration Policies: Talent as Output, High Regard Guests and Citizens in Absentia' in Investment Migration in Europe and the World: Current Issues (D Kochenov, M Sumption and M van den Brink eds 2025).

Professor Strumia's teaching spans EU Law, Immigration Law and Public Law. As an educator, professor Strumia is committed to co-production with students and to searching for ways to integrate research, academic inquiry, and legal practice. At the University of Sheffield, she designed and co-led the Project on the Internationalisation of the Legal Profession, a joint staff-student research project that enabled students to interact with, and interview lawyers in a range of overseas jurisdictions while on their exchange year. At City St. George's she has co-designed with Prof. Tammy Hervey and co-leads with her the HELKC module (Higher Education Legal Knowledge Co-production) a final year elective that offers students the opportunity to work on research, education or leadership projects with staff members and external partners. Based on her teaching and work with students, Professor Strumia was twice nominated for the Oxford University Press Law Teacher of the year, and shortlisted in 2017 for the University of Sheffield Student Union Liberation and Diversity award. She is committed to social mobility and over the years has mentored several students and alumni seeking careers in transnational dimensions of the practice of law.

Professor Strumia is a member of the New York Bar and of the Italian Bar and has practiced corporate and commercial law in major international law firms in London and Milan prior to starting her academic career. She continues to provide consulting and advisory services from time to time, mostly but not exclusively on citizenship and migration related matters. An alumna of Harvard Law School, she sits on the board of the Harvard Law School Association of the UK. 

Modules taught:

LU2018 Immigration Law (leader, LLB)

LU3156 HELKC (Higher Education Legal Knowledge Co-production) (co-leader, LLB and GELLB)

LG2002 Constitutional and Administrative Law (co-leader, GELLB)

LU2010 Foundations of EU Law (LLB)

 

Qualifications

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Advance HE
• SJD, Harvard Law School, United States
• LLM Program, Harvard Law School, United States
• PhD in Comparative Analysis of Law, Economics and Institutions, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
• Laurea in Giurisprudenza, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

Employment

• Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, August 2017 - June 2022
• Lecturer, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, June 2014 - July 2017
• Associate, Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton, Italy, September 2012 - December 2013
• Research Fellow, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy, May 2012 - April 2014
• Associate, Kirkland and Ellis International LLP, United Kingdom, December 2009 - May 2012
• Adjunct Professor of Law, New England Law Boston, United States, January 2008 - May 2009
• Trainee Lawyer, Allen & Overy (now A&O Shearman), Italy, January - June 2004

Fellowships

• Visiting Research Fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, Italy, February - June 2019

Memberships of professional organisations

• Talented Italians in the UK, November 2017 - present
• Ordine degli Avvocati di Torino, Avvocato, March 2010 - present
• New York State Bar, Attorney and Counselor at Law, June 2006 - present

Award

• Italian Chamber of Commerce in the UK (2017). Young Talented Italians Award
  One of eight UK-resident Italians under 40 to receive the prize for “outstanding contributions to the relations between Italy and the UK”

Languages

English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review), French (can read, understand spoken), German (can read, write, speak), Italian (can read, write, speak, understand spoken, peer review) and Spanish; Castilian (can read, write, speak, understand spoken)

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