Ilaria Rivera

Ilaria holds a Phd in Public Law at the University of Pavia. Her dissertation examines the system of protection of fundamental rights in the light of Protocols nos. 14, 15 and 16 of the ECHR, with a focus on the accession of the European Union to the ECHR. She was a postdoctoral research fellow in Juridical Sciences at the Luiss Guido Carli. She’s working on a research project about future generations and sustainability, focused on the role of the market.

She’s held an internship at the Constitutional Court, at the Department of Public Freedoms and Health at the Data Protection Authority and then an internship at the Consumer Protection Division in Consob.

She worked in the Italian Chamber of Deputies first and then in the Italian Senate as a legislative adviser and is currently legal adviser at the Ministry of Economic Development.

Her main areas of interest are the multi-level protection of rights, the dialogue between Supreme and Constitutional Courts and supranational Courts, medically assisted fertilization, the protection of homosexual couples, political parties and the role of Internet, budget constraints and social rights and more recently migratory phenomenon in the shared management between the European Union and Member States.