Professor David Edward Zammit LL.D. Ph.D. (Dunelm) is a lawyer and legal anthropologist. He graduated with the LL.D. degree from the University of Malta and a Ph.D. in Legal Anthropology from the University of Durham in 1998. His Ph.D. research focused ethnographically on legal storytelling before the Maltese Courts and he has conducted subsequent research on court delays and on the management of migrants and asylum seekers in Malta. He is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Civil law at the University of Malta, where he lectures and researches mainly in the fields of Legal Anthropology, Tort law and Comparative Law. He is also the founder-director of the
University of Malta Law Clinic; where he supervises law students who offer pro bono
supervised assistance to asylum seekers. In 2018 he won the Malta Human Rights Award
for the best paper on human rights relevant to Malta published over the previous five years with an essay entitled ‘Vernacularizing Asylum Law in Malta’. He is currently conducting research on Smart Contracts in European Private Law in the framework of the Common Core of European Private Law Project; a project for which he won a Research Excellence Award of the University of Malta in 2019. Furthermore, he is also conducting research in the context of a Research Project Funded by the Spencer Foundation entitled: ‘Crossing Borders to Connect Routes’, which explores the deepening of the educational inequities affecting migrants within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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