Elena Patrizi holds a Master of Law from the University of Urbino, Italy (2013) and an LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from the Geneva Academy, Switzerland (2016). She is PhD candidate at the University of Geneva’s Centre for Children’s Rights Studies in Sion, Switzerland, where she works as research associate (Collaboratrice scientifique). 

Her doctoral research focuses on the emerging fields of children’s rights studies and transitional justice. She previously assisted Prof. Karl Hanson in the teaching of three courses of the Interdisciplinary Master’s in Children’s Rights (2017-2023). She also worked as assistant for the 2017 Geneva Summer School “Children at the heart of human rights” and for the Master of Advanced Studies in Children's Rights (MCR).

PATRIZI, Elena. Redressing forced removals of Yenish children in Switzerland in the 20th century: An analysis through transitional justice lens. In Childhood. December 2021, p. 1-15.

 

PATRIZI, Elena. Communication 115/2020: A.E.A. v. Spain - Violation of the right to education of an undocumented child living in Melilla. In Leiden Children's Rights Observatory, 14th October 2021.