Giulia Priora Wins CEU’s Best Dissertation Award

Our Fellow, Giulia Priora has won Central European University’s Best Dissertation Award for the Academic Year 2019/20.

By the decision of the University Doctoral Committee three students received the awards:

• Giulia Priora (Department of Legal Studies), title of dissertation: Distributive Justice in EU Copyright Law: A function-based assessment for a sustainable harmonization;
• Rita Peto (Department of Economics and Business), title of dissertation: Essays in Labor Economics;
• Vujo Ilic (Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations), title of dissertation: Cousins in Arms: Social Structure and Civil War Mobilization in Montenegro.

Giulia Priora is a Fellow at the Center for Media, Data and Society, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Law, Politics and Development (DIRPOLIS) of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa. Her current work focuses on intellectual property law and innovation policies, the impact and evolution of EU copyright law, with particular regards to access to news, scientific and cultural content. She has served as Visiting Lecturer and Researcher in numerous universities in Europe and overseas and collaborates as Of Counsel with law firms and NGOs.

She holds an SJD in International Business Law summa cum laude (CEU), LL.M. in German Law (WWU Muenster), LL.M. in Comparative Law, Economics and Finance (IUC Turin), JD (University of Turin). A list of her publications is available at SSRN and ResearchGate.