Ms Maria Federica Moscati, LLB (Italy), LLM (SOAS), Lawyer (Italy)

Lecturer in Family Law

Location: Mile End
email: m.f.moscati@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7882 3945

Maria Federica Moscati teaches Family Law at Queen Mary, University of London and is currently in the final stage of her PhD in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Her research, which draws on themes in Comparative Family Law, Access to Justice and ADR is entitled: Pasolini’s Premonitions: Legal, Procedural and Social Issues of Same-Sex Unions and Same-Sex Disputes in Comparative Perspective.

Maria Frederica is a qualified lawyer admitted to the Rome Bar Association in Italy and a former Programme Officer for Save the Children Italy.

Ms Moscati, who also gained her LLM in London, participated in several specialised courses including the Summer School on Sexual Orientation and Law, organised by the Williams Institute of UCLA and held in Amsterdam in 2008. Ms Moscati is a member of Avvocatura LGBT (Lawyers for LGBT rights) an Italian association for legal support for, and implementation of, LGBT rights. She also affiliated to the Research Centre on Comparative Family Law of the University of Shantou – PRC. Ms Moscati has been also nominated Expert for the National Committee of Nepal on Sexual Orientation and Same-Sex Marriage.

Maria Federica is Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS where she is the principal lecturer on courses: ADR, and Access to Justice & Dispute Resolution: Special Applications.

Publications:

Key Publications

  • Maria Federica Moscati (2010) ‘Trajectory of Reform: Catholicism, the State and the Civil Society in the Development of LGBT Rights’, Liverpool Law Review, Vol.31, Number 1, pp.51.
  • Maria Federica Moscati (2009) ‘Individual Autonomy, Public Wrongs, and Sexual Orientation: The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective’, Journal of Comparative Law, 2009, Vol. IV, Issue 2, pp.29.
  • Maria Federica Moscati & Hari Phuyal (2009) Case Note: ‘The Third Gender Case’ Decision of the Supreme Court of Nepal on the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual and Intersex People’, Journal of Comparative Law, 2009, Vol. IV, Issue 2, pp.291.
  • Maria Federica Moscati (2009) Book Review: William Twining, W (2009) General Jurisprudence. Understanding Law from a Global Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Journal of Comparative Law, 2009, Vol. IV, Issue, 2, pp.305.
  • Maria Federica Moscati (2009) ‘Ethiopia’, in Chuck Stewart (ed) The Greenwood Encyclopaedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide, Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, Vol. 3, pp.46.

Key Presentations

  • ‘Il riconoscimento di matrimoni contratti all’estero, e il matrimonio dello straniero in Italia. Aspetti di Diritto Internazionale Privato’ (The recognition of marriage celebrated abroad, and the marriage of not Italian people. Aspect of Private International Law), Salerno Bar Council, Salerno, 22 May 2008.
  • ‘L’assegno di mantenimento per i figli: aspetti comparati’ (The maintenance for children after divorce: comparative aspects), National Bar Council, Rome, 11 June 2008.
  • ‘Children’s Rights, Legal Scholarship and the Implementation of the United Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)’; Society of Legal Scholars-Annual Conference-Family Law Panel. London School of Economic, London, UK, 15-17 September 2008.
  • ‘From Resistance to Acceptance. Same-Sex Unions in Comparative Perspective: Italy, Colombia and Spain’, ILGLAW Conference, William Institute, UCLA-University of California, Los Angels, California, 11-14 March 2009.
  • ‘Trajectory of Reform: Catholicism, the State and the Civil Society in the Development of LGBT rights’, the Socio-Legal Studies Association, Annual Conference, University of Leicester, UK, 7-9 April 2009.
  • ‘Il diritto, l’antropologia e le altre scienze sociali’ (The law, anthropology and other social sciences), ReteLenford-Lawyers for LGBT rights, Genova, Palazzo Ducale, 28 May 2009.
  • ‘Individual Autonomy, Public Wrongs and Sexual Orientation: The Italian Case in Comparative Perspective’, Notre Dame University in London, ‘Global Wrongs and Private Law Remedies and Procedures’, London, 28-29 July 2009.
  • ‘The concept of ‘Legal Culture’ as the answer to the question: Is the law following culture or vice versa? University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland, 2-4 October 2009.
  • ‘Genitorialita’ Sociale: Aspetti di Diritto Comparato’ (Social Parenthood: Aspects of Comparative Law), Rete Lenford-Lawyers for LGBT rights, Rome, Court of Cassation, 27-28 November 2009.
  • ‘Sexual Orientation, Gender and Access to Justice’, SLSA-Annual Conference 2010, Bristol, 30th March 2010.
  • ‘Let’s make a move: legal culture from theory to practice’, Journal of Comparative Law, Workshop: The use of Legal Culture, Venice, 20-21 May 2010.

Research interests:

Research Interests

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution and Access to Justice
  • Comparative Legal Studies
  • Comparative and International Family Law
  • English Family Law
  • Human Rights (Focus on Children’s Rights and the rights LGBT people)