Professor Frances Camilleri-Cassar is the first woman to attain Full Professorship in the Faculty of Laws.
Throughout her thirty years in academia, Professor Camilleri-Cassar has researched and published widely, and routinely presents papers to scholars and more general audiences, both in Malta and abroad. Her research interests centre around social policy and equality law, and connect with European and International colleagues working within a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields. Her recent monograph titled 'Academic Research Methods for the Law Student: a practical guide' was published by the Faculty of Laws in 2018. Professor Camilleri-Cassar chairs the Research Ethics Committee, and is a member on the Human Rights Law Platform.
Besides her research output, Professor Camilleri-Cassar has a sustained record of lecturing at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the University of Malta; and the University of Nottingham as Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy until 2014. In 1995, she set up and coordinated the Gender and Development Course for the University of Malta until 2006.
Between 2000 and 2004, Professor Camilleri-Cassar was adviser on gender issues to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Social Policy, and Minister's delegate on the Commission for the Advancement of Women. During this time, she compiled the first three periodic reports for Malta under the UN Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women. She also served as Chairperson for the Coordinated Response Team Violence against Women under the Ministry for Social Policy (2002 - 2005); and as Chairperson for the Committee on Gender Issues for the University of Malta (1996 - 1999).
Events of significance include a Doctorate awarded without conditions, with a thesis titled 'Gender Equality in Maltese Social Policy? Graduate women and the male breadwinner model' published as a book in 2005; nominations by the US Embassy in Malta for The Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's International Council on Women's Business Leadership in 2011; and, The Women in Leadership Programme under the International Visitor Leadership Programme in 2010.
