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, ‘Russia’s Use of Demographic Engineering to Affirm Sovereignty Over Adjacent Territories’ (2025) German Yearbook of International Law 66(1)/2023, pp. 177–203
AM Pelliconi, ‘Self-Defence As Remedial Self-Determination: Continuity in Russian Narratives to Justify Imperialism and the Use of Force’ (2024) Netherlands International Law Review
AM Pelliconi, ‘Yesterday’s heroes, today’s criminals: The work of the KSC and the controversial role of criminalisation in transitional justice’ (2023) OIDU – Observatory on International Criminal Tribunals 4/2023, pp. 960-968
AM Pelliconi, ‘Unexpected Maritime Crossroads. The ‘duty to rescue’ and the human rights content of the Law of the Sea’ (2021) International Review of Human Rights Law 6, pp. 1-15
AM Pelliconi, ‘Migrants at Sea and the implications of the “duty to rescue”: human rights perspectives in the light of the Italian case-law’ (2020) Il Diritto Marittimo - Il Mulino 3/2020, pp. 622-638
AM Pelliconi & M Goldoni, ‘The banality of ports closed by Decree. Observations on profiles of legitimacy of the Inter-ministerial Decree 150/2020’ [ITA] (2020) Diritto, Immigrazione e Cittadinanza 2/2020, pp. 218-231
AM Pelliconi, ‘From Internal to Extra-Territorial Administrative Detention of Migrants’ (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)’ [ITA] (2018) Giustizia - Rivista della Scuola Forense V. E. Orlando
AM Pelliconi, ‘Child 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’ [ITA] (2018) Giustizia - Rivista della Scuola Forense V. E. Orlando
Short Publications & Blogs
AM Pelliconi, S Arapiles & P Purswani (eds), ‘Special Issue on Climate-induced (im)mobilities’ (2025) Blog of the Socio-Legal Studies Association
AM Pelliconi & J Odermatt, ‘Benefit v Consent: CJEU’s Front Polisario II Judgment and the Law of Self-Determination’ (2024) Center for International Law Dialogues, National University of Singapore
AM Pelliconi, ‘Unexceptional Exceptionalism: The Use of Force by Great Powers and International Instability’ (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, ‘UK Home Office grants asylum to a Palestinian citizen of Israel amid fears of persecutions in the context of an institutionalised apartheid regime’ (2024) Refugee Law Initiative
AM Pelliconi, ‘Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Demographic Changes, and Forcible Transfer as a Violation of Self-Determination’ (2024) Blog Droit International Pénal
AM Pelliconi, ‘The Italian Constitutional Court’s new decision on state immunity and the ICJ Germany vs Italy No.2’ (2023) Ejil:Talk!
AM Pelliconi, ‘The human crisis in the climate crisis: On the legal limbo of climate-related displacement’ (2023) International Law Blog
AM Pelliconi & F Sironi De Gregorio, ‘New 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’ (2023) Ejil:Talk!
AM Pelliconi, ‘Self-Determination as Faux Remedial Secession in Russia’s Annexation Policies: When the Devil Wears Justice’ (2023) Völkerrechtsblog
AM Pelliconi, ‘The 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’ (2022) Ejil:Talk!
AM Pelliconi, ‘Denial of Right of Return and Demographic Engineering as Potential Crimes Against Humanity’ (2021) International Law Blog
AM Pelliconi, ‘Covid-19 and migrant workers – new problems in old clothes’ (2021) IMISCOE Blog
AM Pelliconi, ‘Covid-19: Italy is not a “place of safety” anymore. Is the decision to close Italian ports compliant with human rights obligations?’ (2020) Ejil:Talk!
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 University of Southampton 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 University of Southampton, 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’s Bar, Italy. Before joining academia, she worked in private practice, with the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), and with the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC).