Sara Poli

Sara Poli is Full Professor of European law at the University of Pisa where she teaches EU law and the law of EU external relations. She is part of the board of the PhD programme in law. She is a member of the EUDIPLO (EU diplomacy) and of the EUCTER Jean Monnet networks (EU counterterrorism). In 2013 she was awarded a Jean Monnet Chair which focused on the European neighbourhood Policy. Previously, she has worked at the European University Institute (Fiesole) as Marie Curie Fellow where she did research on the external dimension of the area of freedom, security and justice. She has been Robert Schuman Fellow at the same institution in 2002-2003. Sara has been assistant professor at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ and teaching and research fellow at the University of Trieste. She has been lecturer of European Law at the University of Southampton and teaching assistant of the College of Europe (law department) in Bruges (1999-2001). She obtained her Master of legal studies degree at the College of Europe, and her PhD from the Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari and perfezionamento S. Anna (Pisa) where she also did her undergraduate studies. She has carried out various European projects funded by the Jean Monnet action and has received a number of grants, including the Fulbright-Schuman and DAAD fellowships. She has worked as expert of the Commission to review research projects. Sara has published in leading EU law journals in several areas of EU law, in particular in the field of EU external relations. Her most recent co-edited book is L’Azione esterna dell’Unione europea, 2021 (co-editor E. Bartoloni); she has also published a book on EU restrictive measures (2019) and she has co-edited other books on the European neighbourhood policy, the external dimension of area of freedom, security and justice and on the EU’s management of global emergencies.