Dr Claudia Severi awarded the sixth edition of the “Andrea Gilioli” Graduation Prize
Balancing legal rigour with attention to environmental and social vulnerabilities was the challenge taken up by Claudia Severi, who graduated with honours in Law at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and is the winner of the sixth edition of the “Andrea Gilioli” Graduation Prize, promoted by the Department of Law together with the “Amici per Sempre di Andrea Gilioli” Association. The award ceremony was held on Tuesday 24 June at the San Geminiano Complex of Unimore.
The prize, worth €1,000, is awarded annually to a master’s thesis in public law submitted by Unimore students, with the aim of recognising the most outstanding academic careers while keeping alive the memory of Andrea Gilioli. Born in Sassuolo in 1992, Andrea was a brilliant and generous young law graduate who sadly passed away prematurely in 2018 due to cardiac arrest while at work. After graduating from the Tassoni Scientific High School, he enrolled in Law at Modena, where he stood out for his passion and commitment, graduating with honours with a thesis in administrative law. He also pursued a career in journalism as a publicist, collaborating with La Gazzetta di Modena and Sassuolo Oggi, and founded Breezy Production. The “Amici per Sempre” Association was established in his memory to transform grief into civil and cultural initiatives, inspired by his motto: per aspera ad astra .
The Scientific Committee of the Prize, composed of Professor Marco Gestri, delegate of the Rector, Professor Elio Tavilla, Director of the Department of Law, Giovanna Maria Venturelli representing the promoting Association, lawyer Maria Cristina Vaccari from the Modena Bar, and Dr Giuseppe Gatti, Head of the University’s Student Benefits Office, awarded this year’s prize to Dr Severi for a thesis entitled “Right to Climate and Climate Migrants”, developed within the course “Theory and Practice of Human Rights” under the supervision of Professor Thomas Casadei. As stated in the award motivation, the thesis “begins by outlining the issues related to the climate emergency, examines climate obligations with particular attention to the role of treaties and international case law in a comparative perspective, reflects on the rights of climate migrants and proposes concrete solutions for their protection, with special reference to European and domestic legal instruments.” The committee highlighted the quality of the argumentation, the relevance of the technical-legal language, and the richness of the bibliography.
“The graduation prize named after Andrea Gilioli,” commented Professor Elio Tavilla, “combines memory and scientific research. It originates from the profile of a talented, curious student who was attentive to the world, and is addressed to those who today seriously tackle the unresolved issues of public law. Claudia Severi’s thesis competently enters a complex field such as that of climate migrants, building a solid and well-documented legal framework. The Department considers this prize an integral part of its work, which is to promote well-founded studies and support those who choose to engage with issues crucial for the present and future. Renewing this initiative every year means giving continuity to a concrete idea of university, based on commitment, research, and responsibility.”
Claudia Severi, born in 1999, is currently a PhD candidate in the Humanities, Technology and Society programme promoted by Unimore together with the San Carlo College Foundation of Modena and the Almo Collegio Borromeo of Pavia. Her research project focuses on the relationship between the climate crisis, education, and digital transformations. She has already undertaken academic activities in Ireland, at Maynooth University, and later in Spain, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Seville. She collaborates with CRID – the Interdepartmental Research Centre on Discrimination and Vulnerabilities at Unimore, where she coordinates the activities of the working group on Digital Pacts within the DET IT Workshop – Law, Ethics, Technologies.
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