Diego Acosta is an international expert on International, European and comparative Migration law and Professor of European and Migration Law at the University of Bristol in the UK. He is the author of more than 50 publications. His latest monograph The National versus the Foreigner in South America. 200 Years of Migration and Citizenship Law (Cambridge University Press, 2018) is considered as the key reference from a historical and comparative perspective on the region. Acosta has provided his legal opinion to international organisations, governments, and law firms in Europe, the US, South America, the Caribbean, and Africa and testified on migration law reform before parliaments and MEPS in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay. He has also drafted the written opinion in favour of the applicant in several cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union.
