Lecturer
Dottore in Giurisprudenza (Bologna), LL. M (Durham), Ph.D (Durham)

Email: eugenia.caracciolo@leicester.ac.uk
Telephone: 0116 252 2307

After graduating from the University of Bologna (1993), Eugenia spent one year at the Centre for European Law at the University of Oslo (1993-94) as a visiting researcher working on the institutional aspects of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. She then obtained an LL.M (1995) and a Ph.D. (2000) from the University of Durham.

Before her present position, she was a tutor in European Law at the University of Durham (1996-1999) and a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex (1998-2000). At the University of Leicester she is course convenor for the Family Law option on the LL.B. and for the European Family Law module on the EU Distance Learning programme.

Eugenia is currently supervising Ph.D. theses on several aspects of international and domestic child law. She welcomes enquiries from people wishing to undertake a Ph.D. in any of the areas of her research interests.

Research Interests

Eugenia’s main interest is the impact of the principle of gender equality on various aspects of law and policy at both domestic and EU level. She is also interested in family law, in particular child’s law. Her research is largely interdisplinary and it relies on a socio-legal approach.

Her current research brings together aspects of EU, employment and family law and policy.

See the publication list below for full research output.

Selected Publications

• Reconciling Work and Family Life in EU Law and Policy , Pagrave McMillian 2009, with A. Masselot, University of Canterbury, NZ
• New Labour New Dads – the Impact of Family Friendly Legislation on Fathers, (2007) 36 The Industrial Law Journal 318-328
• The Principle of Equality, the Goods and Services Directive and Insurance: a Conceptual Approach, (2006) 13 The Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 339-350

Complete research output/Publication list (PDF)