Paola Pannia is Assistant Professor in Comparative Public Law at the University of Milan. Her research mostly concerns immigration law, cultural diversity, judicial reasoning, Courts and the balance of power, from a comparative, socio-legal perspective. After her Ph.D. in “Individual Person and Legal Protection” at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, she worked as a consultant for UNHCR and Defence for Children, and as a research fellow at the University of Florence, taking part in national and international projects focused on immigration, integration and children’s rights. She was a visiting researcher at King’s College, the City University in London and the Utrecht University (University College Roosevelt). Since 2012 she has been volunteering at the “Associazione Progetto Arcobaleno”, as pro bono immigration lawyer.