Fields of interest:

• EU judicial networks and their role in promoting a global model of justice
• Judicial and anti-corruption reforms in democratizing countries
• EU enlargement

Cristina Dallara is permanent researcher in Political Science at the Research Institute on Judicial Systems of the Italian National Research Council (IRSIG-CNR) based in Bologna. She was Jean Monnet fellow at EUI in 2011-2012 working on Transnational Judicial Networks, with a special focus on the Council of Europe Venice Commission. She was trained as a political scientist at the University of Bologna. Later on, she hold a PhD in Political Science at the University of Florence, defending a thesis on the effects of EU policies in promoting judicial and anti-corruption reforms in Romania, Serbia and Ukraine. She was employed in several international research projects on the role of the EU, the Council of Europe and other international organizations in promoting judicial reforms in the post-communist area. She was also involved as expert by Cepej-CoE and OSCE in studies and programmes on quality of justice and judicial independence in transitional countries