On April 15th, 2025, the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Carpi issued three awards for the best theses of 2024 within the Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, for students residing in the area. We are proud to say that the winner under the humanities and economics field, Alessia Palladino, partly developed her thesis here at Maynooth University.
Alessia worked with Dr. Orla Kelleher and Dr. Mary Dobbs as part of her Erasmus+ Traineeship and the research she conducted informed her thesis, titled “The recognition of Rights of Nature in the European Union legal order - Il Riconoscimento dei Diritti alla Natura nel panorama legale dell'Unione Europea”, supervised by Prof. Marco Gestri.
With the help and support of Dr. Dobbs and Dr. Kelleher, Alessia was able to present the initial research for her thesis at UCC Postgraduate Research Symposium on Environmental Law, implementing in her thesis the feedback received therein.
The prizes will be officially presented at a public event on May 14th.
We wish to congratulate Alessia on this wonderful achievement.