Nuno joined the University of Sussex as a Professor of Law in 2016. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool (2012-2016) and Lecturer at the University of Manchester (2006-2012). He has also been a Visiting Professor at Wuhan University (China) and the School of Law of the University of Lisbon (Portugal), as well as a guest scholar at the University of Girona (Spain) and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Sweden).
Nuno did his undergraduate law studies at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and University of Bologna (Italy), and is a member of the Portuguese Bar. He worked as a legal consultant at the Legal Affairs and Litigation Department of the Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM), and as a research fellow at the Centre of European Law and Politics at the University of Bremen (ZERP) (Germany). He carried out his doctoral studies at the University of Bremen, where he obtained his Dr. jur. title (summa cum laude).
Nuno is a Horizon 2020 ERC Starting Grant recipient, leading the project SOGICA - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum (2016-2020), and co-director of the Sussex Centre for Human Rights Research.
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Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
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University of Sussex
University, Brighton, United Kingdom
Professor of Law -
University of Liverpool
University, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Senior Lecturer in Law -
University of Manchester
University, Manchester, United Kingdom
Lecturer in Law -
Universität Bremen
Other, Bremen, Germany
Research Fellow -
Comissao do Mercado de Valores Mobiliarios
Other, Lisboa, Portugal
Legal consultant
Research
Utterly Unbelievable: The Discourse of ‘Fake’ SOGI Asylum Claims as a Form of Epistemic Injustice
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | International Journal of Refugee Law |
The EU and protracted displacement: providing solutions or creating obstacles?
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira, Pamela Kea, Albert Kraler, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Editorial: Sexuality, Gender and Asylum: Refugees at a Crossroads
| Authors | Nina Held, Christel Querton, Moira Dustin, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Frontiers in Human Dynamics | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Understanding the dynamics of protracted displacement
| Authors | Albert Kraler, Benjamin Etzold, Nuno Ferreira |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Forced Migration Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Queering Asylum in Europe
| Authors | Carmelo Danisi, Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira, ... |
| Year | 2021 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Legal Violence and (In)Visible Families: How Law Shapes and Erases Family Life in SOGI Asylum in Europe
| Authors | Carmelo Danisi, Nuno Ferreira |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Human Rights Law Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Improving SOGI Asylum Adjudication: Putting Persecution Ahead of Identity
| Authors | Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Refugee Survey Quarterly |
| Citations (WoS) | 10 |
An exercise in detachment: the Council of Europe and sexual minority asylum claims
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Queer migration and asylum in Europe | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Queering international refugee law
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira, Carmelo Danisi |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Queering Asylum in Europe: A Survey Report
| Authors | Carmelo Danisi, Vítor Lopes Andrade, Moira Dustin, ... |
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| Year | 2020 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Governing protracted displacement: An analysis across global, regional and domestic contexts
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira, Carolien Jacobs, Pamela Kea, ... |
| Year | 2020 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Queering Asylum in Europe: A survey report
| Authors | Vitor Lopes Andrade, Carmelo Danisi, Moira Dustin, ... |
| Year | 2020 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Working Children in England and Wales: Waking up from Inertia
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | King's Law Journal | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Portuguese Refugee Law in the European Context: The Case of Sexuality-Based Claims
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | International Journal of Refugee Law |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 |
The harmonisation of private law in Europe and children's tort liability: A case of fundamental and children's rights mainstreaming
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | The International Journal of Children’s Rights | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Fundamental Rights, Constitutional Principles, and the Law of Torts: Tortfeasors v. Tort Victims
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira |
| Year | 2009 |
| Book Title | Haftungsrecht im dritten Millennium - Liability in the Third Millennium |
A responsabilidade internacional: evolução na tradição
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Putting the age of criminal and tort liability into context: a dialogue between law and psychology
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The harmonisation of private law in Europe and children's tort liability: a case of fundamental and children's rights mainstreaming
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Roma and European Union citizenship: in search of a humane answer from the EU
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira, Dora Kostakopoulou | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Ferreira, Nuno (2018) Working children in England and Wales: does anyone care about their rights? British Politics and Policy LSE blog, London.
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Ferreira, Nuno (2016) [Review] Tarunabh Khaitan (2015) A theory of discrimination law. International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, Volume: 16 issue: 4, page(s): 247-250
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Brexit: Using Gender and Queer Lenses
| Authors | Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira, Susan Millns | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Reforming the Common European Asylum System: enough rainbow for queer asylum seekers?
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Canada’s guideline 9: improving SOGIE claims assessment?
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira, Moira Dustin | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The reform of the Common European Asylum System: Fifteen recommendations from a Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Perspective
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira, Carmelo Danisi, Moira Dustin, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The EU free movement of persons from a Spanish perspective: Exploring its evolution and derogations
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Queering Asylum in Europe: A Survey Report
| Authors | Vítor Lopes Andrade, Carmelo Danisi, Moira Dustin, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Davies, Chantal, Ferreira, Nuno, Morris, Anne and Morris, Debra (2016) Editorial: The Equality Act 2010: five-years on. International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, Vol 16(2-3), 61-65
| Authors | Chantal Davies, Nuno Ferreira, Anne Morris, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Danisi, Carmelo, Dustin, Moira and Ferreira, Nuno (2017) Queering brexit. The UK in a Changing Europe.
| Authors | Carmelo Danisi, Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Interview: Nuno Ferreira
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
O Quinto Poder: o Crime Organizado, como Elemento Perturbador do Livre Desenvolvimento da Pessoa Humana e da Paz Social, e a Cooperação Luso-Brasileira
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira, Sofia Cardoso | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Revisiting euthanasia: a comparative analysis of a right to die in dignity
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Working children in Europe: a socio-legal approach to the regulation of child work
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Testing liberal norms: the public policy and public security derogations and the cracks in European Union citizenship
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira, Dora Kostakopoulou | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Portuguese report
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira, Susana Almeida | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Testing the untestable: The CJEU’s decision in Case C-473/16, F v Bevándorlási és Állampolgársági Hivatal
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira, Denise Venturi | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
An exercise in detachment: the Council of Europe and sexual minority asylum claims
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Utterly Unbelievable: The Discourse of ‘Fake’ SOGI Asylum Claims as a Form of Epistemic Injustice
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Ferreira, Nuno and Venturi, Denise (2017) Tell me what you see and I’ll tell you if you’re gay: analysing the advocate general’s opinion in case C-473/16, F v Bevándorlási és Állampolgársági Hivatal.
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira, Denise Venturi | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Portuguese refugee law in the European context: the case of sexuality-based claims
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Queering Brexit: What’s in Brexit for Sexual and Gender Minorities?
| Authors | Carmelo Danisi, Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Fundamental rights, constitutional principles, and the law of torts: tortfeasors v. tort victims. In: Liability in the third millennium : liber amicorum Gert Brüggemeier. Nomos, pp. 49-84
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Testing liberal norms: the public policy and public security derogations and the cracks in European Union citizenship. Working Paper. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-18, University of Warwick
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira, Dora Kostakopoulou | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Latest legal and social developments in the euthanasia debate: Bad moral consciences and political unrest
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Working children in England and Wales: waking up from inertia
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Supreme Court in a final push to go beyond Strasbourg
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Refugees and asylum seekers in Portugal: an assessment and the case of LGBTI individuals
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Evaluating the ‘new culture’ of human rights in European Private Law
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira, Patrick O’Callaghan | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Conclusion: Brexit, gender justice and the Overton Window
| Authors | Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira, Susan Millns | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
R.A. Elman (2007) Sexual equality in an integrated Europe: virtual equality
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The EU and protracted displacement: providing solutions or creating obstacles?
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira, Pamela Kea, Albert Kraler, ... | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A Roma European crisis road-map: A holistic answer to a complex problem
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Better Late Than Never? SOGI Asylum Claims and 'Late Disclosure' Through a Foucauldian Lens
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Commentary on R (on the Application of Begum) v Head-teacher and Governors of Denbigh High School [2006] UKHL 15
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira |
A guarda conjunta: notas comparativas sobre as soluções legais em vigor na União Europeia e no Brasil
| Authors | Maria Aglaé Tedesco Vilardo, Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A eutanásia: entre o debate jurídico e a evolução da opinião pública
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Brexit, sexual orientation and gender identity: What about the people?
| Authors | Carmelo Danisi, Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Child labour and EU law and policy: a regional solution for a global issue
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
'Sexuality and citizenship in Europe: sociolegal and human rights perspectives' [Review] Francesca Romana Ammaturo (2017) European Sexual Citizenship: Human Rights, Bodies and Identities.
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The human face of the European Union: are EU law and policy humane enough? An introduction
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Better Late Than Never? SOGI Asylum Claims and 'Late Disclosure' Through a Foucauldian Lens
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Putting the Age of Criminal and Tort Liability into Context: A Dialogue between Law and Psychology
| Authors | Nuno Ferreira |
| Year | 2008 |
| Journal Name | The International Journal of Children’s Rights | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |