Angela Tacea

Angela Tacea is a FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) postdoctoral fellow. She is affiliated with the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). She is also an associated researcher at the Center for European Studies and Comparative politics (CEE), Sciences Po. She has been appointed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to act as a deputy judge to the French National Court of Asylum (CNDA).

Her postdoctoral project, ‘Who wins the legislative battle? Tracing legislative change and policy ideas in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice’, conducted in partnership with the VUB’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, aims to understand the balance of powers between the main European institutional actors in context of legislative decision-making in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ).

Her research and teaching interests are broadly in European decision-making process and constitutional law, with special focus on institutional actors and procedure, fundamental rights and justice and home affairs policies, e-government, civic techs and artificial intelligence.

Before joining the VUB, she has been a temporary Lecturer in public law and political science at Université Paris 2 Panthéon- Assas. Angela completed her PhD at Sciences Po (2010-2017). Her dissertation explains how national parliaments contribute to the decision-making process and the defense of human rights and civil liberties in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.

Research Interests

Political Institutions ; Constitutional Law ; Legislative Studies ; Border Control ; Free movement of persons, Immigration ; Area of Freedom, Security and Justice