Silvia Scarpa

 

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Silvia Scarpa teaches Human Rights, Contemporary Slavery and Human Trafficking, International Law, and International Migration at John Cabot University. She holds a Laurea cum laude in Political Science (LUISS Guido Carli University), a Master in International Protection of Human Rights (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”) and a Dottorato di Ricerca cum laude in Political Science - Human Rights (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna). In 2009 and 2010 she worked as trainer and consultant in Ankara (Turkey) in the framework of the Phare Twinning Project “Training of Jandarma Officers on European Human Rights Standards” and, she still works as a trainer for law enforcement officials, personnel who will be deployed in peace-support operations (PSOs), and border guards of multiple nationalities, in the framework of training courses organized by various institutions. Her previous professional experiences include the work done as: Post-Doctorate Research Fellow in International Human Rights Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa (2009 - 2011); Lecturer in Public International Law at the University “La Tuscia” of Viterbo (Italy) for the Academic Years 2007-2008 and 2008-2009; and Research Fellow at the International and Comparative Law Laboratory (LIDER-LAB) of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa (2007 - 2008). In the summer of 2010 she participated to the prestigious Research Programme on “International Migration” held at Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations of the Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague, The Netherlands.
 

Her publications include:

Books

SCARPA S. (2008) Trafficking in Human Beings: Modern Slavery, OXFORD: Oxford University Press, vol. 1, p. 1-240, ISBN: 9780199541904.
SCARPA S (2012) An Introduction to International Human Rights Standards for Law Enforcement Authorities, ROMA: UniversItalia, p. 1-256, ISBN: 978-88-6507-385-8.

Selected Articles

SCARPA S., Assessing the Effects on Students’ Awareness and Actions Produced by the Course "Human Trafficking and Contemporary Slavery" In AAVV. Special issue of the The Protection Project Journal of Human Rights and Civil Society (2012), p. 81-98, available at http://www.protectionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/TPP-J-HR-Civ-Socy_Vol-5_2012-w-cover1.pdf.
SCARPA S., “Fighting Against Human Trafficking for Commercial Sexual Exploitation: the Action in Western Europe” Revue Internationale de Droit Penal (2011), vol. 3-4, 563-587.
SCARPA S., “Politiche dell’Unione Europea di tutela dei diritti umani delle donne. Il caso della tratta”, in M. G. Rossilli (ed), I Diritti delle Donne nell’Unione Europea. Cittadine, Migranti, Schiave (Ediesse, 2009) at 139 - 161.
SCARPA S., “Gli standard e i meccanismi internazionali di tutela dei diritti umani”, in Regione Toscana, Sessantesimo anniversario della Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti Umani (Regione Toscana, 2008) at 34 – 47.
SCARPA S., “La tutela internazionale delle vittime di tratta di persone, in particolare donne e bambini” in F. Carchedi, V. Tola (eds), All’aperto e al chiuso, Prostituzione e tratta: i nuovi dati del fenomeno, i servizi sociali, le normative di riferimento (Ediesse, 2008) at 375 - 417.
SCARPA S., “La Tutela dei Diritti Fondamentali nell’Unione Europea ed il Modello Sociale Europeo” in Eurispes, Il Modello Sociale Europeo – Una grande sfida aperta (Eurispes, 2007) at 85 - 97.

Selected Book Reviews

SCARPA S., “Book Review: Anne T. Gallagher, The International Law of Human Trafficking, Cambridge University Press, 2010, 535 pp., $ 49.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781107624559” PLURILOGUE (2013)  available at http://www.plurilogue.com/2013/01/the-international-law-of-human.html.
SCARPA S., “Book review:  Joel Quirk. The Anti-Slavery Project: From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking” 25 LEIDEN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (2012) 1036-1039.

Contributor

Ministero degli Affari Esteri - Direzione Generale per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo (2013) “Patrimonio Culturale e Sviluppo: Verso la Formulazione di una Strategia Italiana” http://www.cooperazioneallosviluppo.esteri.it/pdgcs/Documentazione/PubblicazioniTrattati/2013-01-31_L.G.Patrimonio.Prep.pdf.
Ministero degli Affari Esteri - Direzione Generale per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo (2013) “Linee Guida della Cooperazione Italiana su Patrimonio Culturale e Sviluppo” http://www.cooperazioneallosviluppo.esteri.it/pdgcs/Documentazione/PubblicazioniTrattati/2013-01-31_L.G.Patrimonio.Culturale.pdf.