About
Andrea is an expert in public international law and teaches international human rights law, international criminal law, and the law of the European Union. She writes about demographic engineering, forced displacement, and climate-related mobility.
Research
Research groups
Current research
Publications
Peer-reviewed Articles
AM Pelliconi, 鈥楾he Demographic Battle for Palestine in the Settler-Colonial Project and the Promise and Peril of International Law. A Review of The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity by Ardi Imseis' (2025) 16(1) Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies
AM Pelliconi, 鈥楽elf-Defence As Remedial Self-Determination: Continuity in Russian Narratives to Justify Imperialism and the Use of Force鈥 (2024) Netherlands International Law Review
AM Pelliconi, 鈥楻ussia鈥檚 Use of Demographic Engineering to Affirm Sovereignty Over Adjacent Territories鈥 (2023) 66(1) German Yearbook of International Law, pp. 177鈥203
AM Pelliconi, 鈥榊esterday鈥檚 heroes, today鈥檚 criminals: The work of the KSC and the controversial role of criminalisation in transitional justice鈥 (2023) 4 OIDU 鈥 Observatory on International Criminal Tribunals, pp. 960-968
AM Pelliconi, 鈥楿nexpected Maritime Crossroads. The 鈥榙uty to rescue鈥 and the human rights content of the Law of the Sea鈥 (2021) 6 International Review of Human Rights Law, pp. 1-15
AM Pelliconi, 鈥楳igrants at Sea and the implications of the 鈥渄uty to rescue鈥: human rights perspectives in the light of the Italian case-law鈥 (2020) 3 Il Diritto Marittimo - Il Mulino, pp. 622-638
AM Pelliconi & M Goldoni, 鈥楾he banality of ports closed by Decree. Observations on profiles of legitimacy of the Inter-ministerial Decree 150/2020鈥 [ITA] (2020) 2 Diritto, Immigrazione e Cittadinanza, pp. 218-231
AM Pelliconi, 鈥楩rom Internal to Extra-Territorial Administrative Detention of Migrants鈥 (2019) Federalismi - Human Rights Focus, pp. 1-28
AM Pelliconi, 'Comment to the sentence of the European Court of Human Rights, Grand Chamber, G.I.E.M. S.R.L. and others v. Italy (Rec. NN. 1828/06, 34163/07 E 19029/11)鈥 [ITA] (2018) Giustizia - Rivista della Scuola Forense V. E. Orlando
AM Pelliconi, 鈥楥hild pornography in the private sphere and the crime of virtual pedopornography. Critical considerations in the light of Judgement No. 22265/2017 of the Italian Court of Cassation鈥 [ITA] (2018) Giustizia - Rivista della Scuola Forense V. E. Orlando
Short Publications & Blogs
AM Pelliconi, S Arapiles & P Purswani (eds), 鈥楽pecial Issue on Climate-induced (im)mobilities鈥 (2025) Blog of the Socio-Legal Studies Association
AM Pelliconi & J Odermatt, 鈥楤enefit v Consent: CJEU鈥檚 Front Polisario II Judgment and the Law of Self-Determination鈥 (2024) Center for International Law Dialogues, National University of Singapore
AM Pelliconi, 鈥楿nexceptional Exceptionalism: The Use of Force by Great Powers and International Instability鈥 (2024) E-International Relations
(shortlisted as a finalist in the 2024 E-International Relations Article Award, sponsored by Edinburgh University Press, Polity, Sage, Bloomsbury and Routledge)
AM Pelliconi & V Kattan, 鈥楿K Home Office grants asylum to a Palestinian citizen of Israel amid fears of persecutions in the context of an institutionalised apartheid regime鈥 (2024) Refugee Law Initiative
AM Pelliconi, 鈥楽ettlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Demographic Changes, and Forcible Transfer as a Violation of Self-Determination鈥 (2024) Blog Droit International P茅nal
AM Pelliconi, 鈥楾he Italian Constitutional Court鈥檚 new decision on state immunity and the ICJ Germany vs Italy No.2鈥 (2023) Ejil:Talk!
AM Pelliconi, 鈥楾he human crisis in the climate crisis: On the legal limbo of climate-related displacement鈥 (2023) International Law Blog
AM Pelliconi & F Sironi De Gregorio, 鈥楴ew universal jurisdiction case filed in Germany for crimes committed in Myanmar before and after the coup: On complementarity, effectiveness, and new hopes for old crimes鈥 (2023) Ejil:Talk!
AM Pelliconi, 鈥楽elf-Determination as Faux Remedial Secession in Russia鈥檚 Annexation Policies: When the Devil Wears Justice鈥 (2023) 痴枚濒办别谤谤别肠丑迟蝉产濒辞驳
AM Pelliconi, 鈥楾he Trilateral Agreement between Turkey, Finland and Sweden and the Silence of Human Rights: The Need to Apply the MoU in Light of Human Rights and Refugee Law Protections鈥 (2022) Ejil:Talk!
AM Pelliconi, 鈥楧enial of Right of Return and Demographic Engineering as Potential Crimes Against Humanity鈥 (2021) International Law Blog
AM Pelliconi, 鈥楥ovid-19 and migrant workers 鈥 new problems in old clothes鈥 (2021) IMISCOE Blog
AM Pelliconi, 鈥楥ovid-19: Italy is not a 鈥減lace of safety鈥 anymore. Is the decision to close Italian ports compliant with human rights obligations?鈥 (2020) Ejil:Talk!
Publications
Teaching
- International Human Rights Law
- Globalisation and the Individual
- Public Law
- The Law of the European Union
Biography
Andrea Maria Pelliconi is a lecturer in Human Rights Law at the 黑料社 and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA). She is the co-convenor of the ICON-S Interest Group on Migration and Climate Change, and the head of the Programmes Committee of the Young International Criminal Lawyers Association (AYICL). Her research focuses on demographic engineering under international law, exploring the intersection between public demography, forced displacement, and genocide. Andrea is also interested in climate-related involuntary mobility.
Andrea holds a PhD in International Law (The City Law School, University of London), an Advanced Master in International Protection of Human Rights (Sapienza University, Rome), and a combined Bachelor and Master of Law with a major in Public International Law (Bocconi University, Milan). She is the winner of the 2024 Georg Schwarzenberger Prize in International Law.
Before joining the 黑料社, Andrea worked as a Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham. During her doctoral studies, she worked as a Teaching Assistant at various institutions, including the London School of Economics (LSE), City, University of London, the University of Hertfordshire, and the University of West England (UWE). She held research fellowships at the University of Bologna (ESIL Young Investigator Training Programme), and at the Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law in Luxembourg (2023 MPI guest fellowship).
Andrea is a qualified lawyer (non-practicing) at the Rome鈥檚 Bar, Italy. Before joining academia, she worked in private practice, with the International Bar Association鈥檚 Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), and with the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC).