Paula García Andrade

Contact details: paula.garciaandrade@uam.es

Short Bio:

Paula García Andrade is a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow Professor of Public international law and European Union law at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Previously, she has been Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas ICAI-ICADE.

She holds a PhD in Law (Doctor Europeus) from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, for a thesis on the EU external action on migration from the perspective of the distribution of external competences (2012), and a Master’s degree in European Law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2006).

Her research expertise focuses on the external dimension of EU immigration and asylum law, particularly on questions of competences, institutional balance, coherence, and rule of law, as well as on EU external relations law more broadly, with special attention in her work to the system of EU external competences and the EU’s recourse to international soft law. In these fields, she has published a monograph on the vertical distribution of competences on migration (Tirant lo Blanch, 2015) and more than 40 contributions in high-impact prestigious journals (Common Market Law Review) and in collective volumes edited by top-rank publishers (Routledge, Hart, Elgar).

She participates very often in national and international conferences and take part in research projects funded by national entities such as the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness and European institutions, as the Jean Monnet Programme and the European Commission. She participated in the services contract with the European Parliament for the provision of expertise on EU cooperation with third countries on migration, coordinating the project and the resulting high-impact study published in 2015. She is member of the Editorial Board of the Revista de Derecho Comunitario Europeo and has been Associate Editor of European Papers from its creation in 2016 to 2020.

She has been awarded the recognition of two six-year research periods (2010-2015; 2016-2021) by the Spanish Ministry of Education.

Her recent and most relevant publications include:

• ‘Cooperation with third countries within the EU legislative reform on migration and asylum’, EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy Blog, 9 September 2024.
• ‘La reforma de la legislación de la UE sobre asilo: ¿una solución europea basada en la solidaridad?’, La Ley Unión Europea, nº 125 – May 2024.
• with E. Frasca. ‘The Memorandum of Understanding between the EU and Tunisia: Issues of procedure and substance on the informalisation of migration cooperation’, EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy Blog, 26 January 2024.
• ‘Tackling Migration Externally Through the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy: A Question of Legal Basis’, (2023) European Papers, 8(2), 959-984.
• ‘Derecho de la UE y gestión de los flujos migratorios: interacciones con el Derecho internacional y con el Derecho Interno’, in J. Martín y Pérez de Nanclares, D. González Herrera.
  Desafíos jurídicos en la gestión internacional y europea de los flujos migratorios (Tirant lo Blanch, 2023) 149-184.
• El valor de la Convención de Ginebra sobre el estatuto de los Refugiados de 1951 en el ordenamiento jurídico de la UE’, in S. Adroher Biosca, I. Claro Quintáns (eds.). El Derecho Internacional Público en la frontera de los derechos humanos: libro homenaje a la profesora Dra. Cristina J. Gortázar Rotaeche (Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 2023) 217-232.
• (ed.) Interacciones entre el Derecho de la Unión Europea y el Derecho internacional público (Tirant Lo Blanch, 2023).
• ‘The external dimension of the EU migration policy: the legal framing of building partnerships with third  countries’, in P. De Bruycker and L. Tsourdi (eds.), Research Handbook on EU Migration and Asylum Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022) 365-388.
• ‘Respect for Institutional Balance in the Adoption of Non-legally Binding Agreements: France v Commission II’, in G. Butler and R.A. Wessel (eds.), EU External Relations Law. The Cases in Context (Hart, 2022) 443-454.
• ‘The external dimension of the EU immigration and asylum policies before the ECJ’, (2022) 7(1) European Papers, 109-126.
• ‘EU Cooperation with Third Countries within the New Pact on Migration and Asylum: New Instruments for a “Change of Paradigm”?’, in D. Thym and Odysseus Academic Network (eds.), Reforming the Common European Asylum System. Opportunities, Pitfalls, and Downsides of the Commission Proposals for a New Pact on Migration and Asylum (Nomos, 2022) 223-238.
• ‘Outside the opt-out: legal consequences of the UK's withdrawal from the EU for external action in the AFSJ’, in J. Santos Vara and R.A. Wessel (eds.), The Routledge Handbook on the International Dimension of Brexit (Routledge, 2021) 104-116.
• ‘La dimensión exterior de la política de asilo de la UE desde una perspectiva competencial’, in J. Abrisketa Uriarte, Políticas de asilo de la UE: convergencias entre las dimensiones interna y externa (Thomson Reuters/Aranzadi, 2021) 161-189.
• ‘EU external competences on migration: which role for mixed agreements?’, in S. Carrera, J. Santos Vara and T. Strik (eds.), Constitutionalising the External Dimensions of EU Migration Policies in Times of Crisis Legality, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Reconsidered (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 39-56.
• ‘The role of the European Parliament in the adoption of non- legally binding agreements with third countries’, in J. Santos Vara and S. Sánchez Rodríguez-Tabernero (eds.), The Democratisation of EU International Relations through EU Law (Routledge, 2019) 115-131.
• ‘The EU accession to the Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees: LegalFeasibility and Added Value’, (2019) 23 Spanish Yearbook of International Law, 193-210.
• ‘The Duty of Cooperation in the External Dimension of the EU Migration Policy’, in S. Carrera, L. den Hertog, M. Panizzon and D. Kostakopoulou (eds.), EU External Migration Policies in an Era of Global Mobilities: Intersecting Policy Universes (Brill/Nijhoff, 2019) 299-325.
• ‘EU External Competences in the Field of Migration: How to Act Externally When Thinking Internally’, (2018) 55(1) Common Market Law Review, 157 – 200.
• ‘Migrants by sea’, (2017) 21 Spanish Yearbook of International Law, 407-422. ‘Who is in charge? The external representation of the EU on dialogues on immigration and asylum with third countries’ (January 2016) EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy Blog, 13 January 2016.
• with I. Martín, EU cooperation with third countries in the field of migration, Study for the LIBE Committee, (2015) European Parliament, PE 536.469.
• La acción exterior de la Unión Europea en materia migratoria. Un problema de reparto de competencias (Tirant lo Blanch, 2015).