Francesca Galli

Dr. Francesca Galli is a Research Associate at European University Institute.
Her research project examines challenges and future of data retention within the EU, while exploring the socio-legal implications of CJEU recent rulings (Digital Rights Ireland, Schrems and Tele 2-Sverige) as to how the dynamic equilibrium between data retention and protection evolves and why.
Her main area of interest is the relationship between European and national criminal law.
Her researches have developed around the shift towards prevention in the fight against terrorism.
She has first analysed the broader picture of developments in criminal justice in recent years from a comparative law perspective and then brought the analysis of current trends to a European dimension.
Before joining the EUI, she was an Assistant Professor art the Department of International and European Law, at Faculty of Law of the University of Maastricht.
Previously she worked as a FNRS Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institut d’Etudes Européennes of the ULB in Brussels where she has conducted a research Project under the supervision of Prof.
Anne Weyembergh, entitled "L’Union européenne et la prévention du terrorisme : impact sur le droit pénal et redéfinition de la relation entre le droit pénal européen et les droits pénaux nationaux" from 2010 to 2013.
She holds a BA and MPhil in Political Sciences with a specialisation in International and Diplomatic studies (Laurea in Scienze internazionali e diplomatiche) at the University of Trieste (Italy), a Masters of Law of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Master en carrières judiciaires et juridiques, Diplôme de l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques) and a PhD in law at the University of Cambridge.