Professor Ivan Sammut
Associate Research Fellow
B.A.(Melit.),LL.D.(Melit.), M.Jur.(Melit.), M.A.(Birm.), LL.M.(Bruges), Ph.D.(Lond.)
University of Malta

Research Interests
- European private law
- European private international law
- EU Internal Market law
- EU legal translations & drafting
- EU Competition law
- Justice & Home Affairs law
- EU aviation law
- Family law
- Parental Alienation Studies
- Human Rights
Additional Professional Information
- Associate Professor at the University of Malta
- Jean Monnet Chair
- Chamber of Advocates Malta
- Member of European Law Institute
- Member of FIDE (European Law) Steering Committee
Selected Publications
2025 (forthcoming)
Sammut I, (2025) Internal Taxation in the EU's Internal Market: Is Article 110 TFEU All About Protectionism?, in Sammut, I & Mifsud, I. (eds.) (2024). The EU Internal Market in the Next Decade – Quo Vadis? (pp. 263-273) Brill Publishing, the Netherlands.
Sammut I, (2025) The Legal Basis for European Contract Law and the Tools to Achieve the EU's Internal Market, in Sammut, I & Mifsud, I. (eds.) (2024). The EU Internal Market in the Next Decade – Quo Vadis? (pp. 250-262) Brill Publishing, the Netherlands.
Sammut I, (2025) The Transformation of European Private Law, Harmonisation, Consolidation, Codification or Chaos?, in Sammut, I & Mifsud, I. (eds.) (2024). The EU Internal Market in the Next Decade – Quo Vadis? (pp. 57-80) Brill Publishing, the Netherlands.
Sammut I, (2025) Lost in Translation – Legal Certainty in the EU's Internal Market, in Sammut, I & Mifsud, I. (eds.) (2024). The EU Internal Market in the Next Decade – Quo Vadis? (pp. 39-58) Brill Publishing, the Netherlands.
Sammut I, (2025) Introduction, in Sammut, I & Mifsud, I. (eds.) (2024). The EU Internal Market in the Next Decade – Quo Vadis? (pp. 1-4) Brill Publishing, the Netherlands.
Sammut, I & Mifsud, I. (eds.) (2025). The EU Internal Market in the Next Decade – Quo Vadis? Brill Publishing, the Netherlands.
2024
Sammut, I. (2024). Id-dritt Ewropew fis-sistema legali Maltija wara għoxrin sena ta' sħubija. In Court of Justice of the European Union (Luxembourg) (Ed.), Malta u l-Qorti tal-Ġustizzja tal-Unjoni Ewropea: 2014-2024 (pp. 57-64). Luxembourg: Court of Justice of the European Union.
Sammut, I & Mifsud, I. (eds.) (2024). Human rights issues in migration and border management: challenges and perspectives. The Hague: Eleven International Publishing.
Sammut, I. (2024). The primacy of EU law in the Maltese legal system. In T. Borg & J. Stanton (Eds.), The constitution of Malta at sixty (pp. 279-302). Malta: Kite Group.
Sammut, I. (2024). EU migration law: from Schengen to the externalisation of border control – quo vadis? In I. Sammut & I. Mifsud (Eds.), Human rights issues in migration and border management (pp. 23-41). Netherlands: Eleven International Publishing.
Sammut, I. (2024). The great migration and asylum games: from the Serengeti to the Mediterranean – which law prevails? In I. Sammut & I. Mifsud (Eds.), Human rights issues in migration and border management (pp.101-110). Netherlands: Eleven International Publishing.
Sammut, I. (2024). From St Paul to Feilazoo v Malta, from asylum law to the sale of citizenship – how Malta and EU law lost l'esprit de l'Europe and the way forward. In I. Sammut & I. Mifsud (Eds.), Human rights issues in migration and border management (pp. 205-208). Netherlands: Eleven International Publishing.
Sammut, I. (2024). Introduction. In I. Sammut & I. Mifsud (Eds.), Human rights issues in migration and border management (pp. 17-18). Netherlands: Eleven International Publishing.
2023
Sammut, I. (2023). Lawyers ethics in parental alienation. European Journal of Parental Alienation Practice, Issue 2 (Autumn 2023), 91-106.
2022
Sammut, I. (2022). Managing legal pluralism in the Maltese legal system: processes, driving forces and effects - a 'loving' marriage of legal systems or a curse? European Journal of Law Reform, 24(2), 163-177.
2021
Sammut, I. (2021). The Transposition and Implementation of European Union Directives: A case study of the Maltese Legal Order. In I. Sammut, & J. Agranovska, (Eds.), The Implementation and Enforcement of European Union Law in Small Member States - A case-study of Malta (pp. 89-112). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sammut, I., (2021). EU Law and Maltese Law - An Integration of Illegal Irritants. In I. Sammut, & J. Agranovska, (Eds.), The Implementation and Enforcement of European Union Law in Small Member States - A case-study of Malta (pp. 11-45). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sammut, I., (2021). Legal Translations: The Translation of EU Law into the Maltese Language - Quo Vadis? In I. Sammut, & J. Agranovska (Eds.), The Implementation and Enforcement of European Union Law in Small Member States - A case-study of Malta (pp. 113-133). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sammut, I. (2021). Introduction. In I. Sammut, & J. Agranovska (Ed.), The implementation and enforcement of European Union law in small member states (pp. 1-10). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Sammut, I., & Agranovska, J. (Eds.) (2021). The Implementation and Enforcement of European Union Law in Small Member States. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Sammut, I. (2021). The effect of Multilingualism in the EU on European legal translation. The International Journal of Law, Language & Discourse, 9(2), 6-22.
2020
Sammut, I. (2020). Crimes against the Financial Interest of the EU. In I. Sammut and J. Agranovska (Eds.), Implementing and Enforcing EU Criminal Law - Theory and Practice (pp. 25-38). Hague: Eleven International Publishing.
Sammut, I., (2020). Legislation in Malta. In H. Xanthaki, & U. Karpen (Eds), Legislation in European - a Country by Country Guide (pp. 325-336). Dublin: Hart Publishing
Sammut, I. (2020). An Open Method of Coordination (OMC) for European Criminal Law? In I. Sammut, & J. Agranovska (Eds.), Implementing and Enforcing EU Criminal Law - Theory and Practice (pp. 15-24). The Netherlands: Eleven International Publishing.
Sammut, I., & Agranovska, J. (Eds.) (2020). Implementing and Enforcing EU Criminal Law - Theory and Practice. The Hague: Eleven International Publishing.
Sammut, I., & Agranovska, J. (2020). Comparative Analysis. In I. Sammut and J. Agranovska (Eds.), Implementing and Enforcing EU Criminal Law - Theory and Practice (pp. 301-316). Hague: Eleven International Publishing.
Sammut, I. (2020). EU law and criminal law - The legal basis. In I. Sammut, & J. Agranovska (Eds.), Implementing and Enforcing EU Criminal Law - Theory and Practice (pp. 01-14). Hague: Eleven International Publishing.
Sammut, I. (2020). Governance and the Transformation of European Private Law. European Review of Private Law, 28(2), pp. 275-292.
Sammut, I. (2020). A tug of War between rights and obligations: the case of migration from Malta's perspective. In F. Ippolito, G. Borzoni, & F. Casolari (Eds.), Bilateral Relations in the Mediterranean, Prospects for Migration Issues (pp. 48-65). Oxford: Edward Elgar Publishing.
2019
Sammut, I. (2019). The EU, From a Common Market to the Charter on Human Rights: The Evolution of Fundamental Rights. In R. MANGION (Ed.), The UN Declaration of Human Rights 70 years on (pp. 111-117). Malta: Fondazzjonijiet Celebrazzjonijiet Nazzjonali.
2018
Sammut, I., (2018). The Translation of EU trademarks – a special type of Intellectual Property Translation. International Journal of Legal Discourse, 3(1), 1-26.
Sammut, I. (2018). Developments in the internal market during Malta's presidency. In M. Harwood, S. Moncada, & R. Pace (eds.), Malta's EU Presidency: a study in a small state presidency of the Council of the EU (pp. 27-40). Msida: Malta University Press.
Sammut, I. (2018.) The Context for European Private Law – Comparative Law, Legal Transplants & Mixed Legal Systems. The European Legal Forum, 18(1), 1-12.
Sammut, I. (2018). The Effect of Multilingualism in the EU on European Legal Translation. The International Journal for the Rule of Law, Courtroom Procedures, Judicial Linguistics and Legal English, 2(1), pp. 30-52.
2017
Sammut, I. (2016). Interpreting the law in a Mixed Jurisdiction: The Professor vs the Judge, Peers or Rivals'. Loyola Law Review, 62(Fall 2016), 777-807.
Sammut, I. (2016). Constructing Modern European Private Law: A Hybrid System. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2014
Sammut, I. (2014). Malta report in the area of EU procurement law. In U. Neegard (Eds.), XXVI FIDE Congress Copenhagen 2014 Reports, Public Procurement Law: Limitations, opportunities, and Paradoxes (587-608). Denmark: University of Copenhagen.
Sammut, I. (2014). Legal Engineering at the services of European Private Law (EPL). International Journal of International Law, 1(1), 1-31.
Sammut, I. (2014). Malta: At the Crossroads of Immigration'. In F. Medved (Ed.), The proliferation of Migration Transition: Selected New EU Member States (212-237). Brussels: European Liberal Forum.