Profile
Maria Federica Moscati (Marica) joined the University of Sussex in 2015. She holds a PhD from SOAS and is an Italian advocate and trained mediator. Before undertaking her doctorate she worked for Save the Children Italy where she specialised in children’s rights. She is co-director of the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health at University of Sussex . She is Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her main research interests lie in issues relating to Dispute Resolution, Access to Justice, Comparative Family Law, Children's rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Sexual Reproductive Health and Justice and their intersection. Her methodology is informed by ethnographic sensibility and comparative analysis. She combines academic interests with activism in support of LGBTI+ people, and children. Her research interests have resulted in both academic and wider impact publications and attracted public funding.
Publications
(2022) ‘Trans* identity does not limit children’s capacity: Gillick competence applies to decisions concerning access to puberty blockers too!, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09649069.2022.2028410
(2022) ‘Gender Identity and Family Mediation: reflections on trans* and non-binary partners in family mediation,’ February [2022] Fam Law 242.
(2021) ‘Children’s Rights and Gender Identity: a New Frontier of Children’s Protagonism?,' with F. Ammaturo, Nordic Journal of Human rights, Vol. 39, Is. 2, pp. 146-162, in Special Issue on New Frontiers in Children’s Rights – Between Protection and Empowerment.
(2020) Comparative Dispute Resolution, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (Co-edited with Michael Palmer and Marian Roberts).
(2020) Family Mediation: Contemporary Issues, London: Bloomsbury Professional (Co-edited with Marian Roberts).
(2017) 'R (on the Application of Begum) v Governors of Denbigh High School' in Helen Stalford; Kathryn Hollingsworth, and Stephen Gilmore, (eds.) Rewriting Children’s rights judgments. From Academic Vision to New Practice, Hart, Oxford, pp.352-361.
(2014) Pasolini’s Italian Premonitions: Same-Sex Unions and the Law in Comparative Perspective, London: Wildy, Simmonds & Hill.
(2027) Rainbow after the Storm: Mylo and his dads go to the mediator. Available at http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/64093/1/MOSCATI_CHILDREN_FAMILIES_MEDIATION.pdf
