Biography

Born in 1998 in Milan, Italy, she is currently a University Assistant at the Institute of Italian Law, Department of Italian Constitutional Law, where she is carrying out doctoral research on the topic of unaccompanied foreign minors. From September 2023 to January 2024 she was a student assistant at the Institute for the Theory and Future of Law (Theorie und Zukunft des Rechts) and from March 2021 to September 2024 at the Institute of Italian Law. She began her law studies in 2017 at the University of Milan and completed them in 2024 at the University of Innsbruck as part of the Italian Law programme (run jointly with the Universities of Padua and Trento).

She has attended a course in legal counselling in the field of asylum and migration at Caritas in Vienna (March – December 2024), the Summer School "EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy" at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (30 June – 11 July 2025), the VU Winter School "Climate Change, Migration and Social Control" (19.01–23.01.2026), organised within the Aurora programme of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the Summer School "Comprendere e governare la migrazione climatica e ambientale" at the University of Bari Aldo Moro (Taranto, 14–16 May 2026).

She was a substitute member of the Curriculums-Kommission (CuKo) for the law degree programme from December 2024 to September 2025. She is also a Board member of the IMISCOE PhD Network.

Curriculum Vitae

Main Research Area 

• Italian Constitutional Law
• Asylum and Migration Law
• Children Law

Recent Publications

• A. BUGNOLI, La riforma del sistema Eurodac e il GDPR: quali conseguenze per i minori stranieri?, ADiM Blog, July 2025;

• A. BUGNOLI, "Climate refugees: recognition and protection", in: Guercio L., Gnerre Landini G. (Hrsg.), Building Competencies and Awareness on the International Protection of Children Affected by Armed Conflict. The importance of giving voice to young people, Gambini Editore, 2023 (S. 133–148).

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Recent Presentations (Selection)

• May 7th, 2026, Climate Change and Vulnerability in Migration, as part of the Euregio seminar "Legal Pathways to Climate Action: Between Global Agreements and Local Realities". The seminar was organised by the University of Innsbruck in collaboration with the University of Trento.

• October 20th, 2025, Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection: Safeguarding Foreign Minors Between the GDPR and the Eurodac Reform, during the Artificial Intelligence and Sensitive Data: Challenges, Regulatory Solutions and the Protection of Fundamental Rights Conference, held at the University of Parma;

• May 30th, 2025, La riforma del sistema Eurodac e il GDPR: quali conseguenze per i minori stranieri?, in the panel “Intelligenza Artificiale e immigrazione" during the Migration Conference 2025 organized by ADiM – Academy of Law and Migration and IntoME, held at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo).

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 Teaching (Summer term 2026)

• 325080 UE Costitutional law (Excercise)