Institute for Comparative Federalism - Guest researchers
Guest researchers
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Assoc. Prof. Ana Herrero-Alcalde
Associate Professor in Economics, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Equalization transfers, devolution of welfare state policies
Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Project n.PID2021-125710OB-C21
05/06/2023 - 02/07/2023
Evelyne Brie© Evelyne Brie
Asst. Prof. Evelyne Brie
Assistant Professor in Political Science, Western University
Social cohesion and political inequalities
EU Horizon 2023 RISE project LoGov-secondment
04/06/2023 - 14/06/2023
Nicholas Aroney© The University of Queensland
Prof. Nicholas Aroney
Professor of Constitutional Law, Director (Public Law) Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law, The University of Queensland
Constituent Power in Federal Systems: Theory, Comparison and Case Selection
Australian Research Council Discovery Project 2022-2025 (Constituent Power in Federal Constitutions)
02/06/2023 - 10/06/2023
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Prof. Nico Steytler
Dullah Omar Institute of Constitutional Law, Government and Human Rights, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Federalism in the Global South and local government in federal systems
EU Horizon 2023 RISE project LoGov-secondment
14/05/2023 – 28/07/2023
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Assoc. Prof. William Myers
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies, University of Tampa, FL, USA
Intergovernmental Relations, Judicial Politics, Political Behavior
08/05/2023 - 19/05/2023
Iris Reus© Eurac Research
Iris Reus
PI of the research project “Democracy and Diversity in German Federalism – The ‘unitary federal state’ in times of crisis”, funded by the VolkswagenStiftung, at the University of Leipzig
Representation of federalism in the media during the Covid-19 pandemic - An evaluation of positions, connotations and evaluations in German daily newspapers
04/04/2023 - 06/04/2023
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Assoc. Prof. Nikos Skoutaris
Associate Professor in EU Law, University of East Anglia, UK
EU law, comparative constitutional law, conflict resolution theory
Federal Scholar in Residence-award-winning manuscript: ‘Accommodating secession within the EU constitutional order of states’
Federal Scholar in Residence 2023
06/02/2023 – 24/02/2023
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Assoc. Prof. Rebecca Nelson
Associate Professor of Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Multi-level governance in environmental and natural resources regulation
Federal Scholar in Residence-award-winning manuscript: 'Regulating Cumulative Environmental Change in Multi-layered Legal Contexts'
Federal Scholar in Residence 2020
16/01/2023 – 27/01/2023
Aleksa Nikolić
Lecturer and PhD Candidate in Constitutional Law at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law (Serbia)
Systems of Government in Modern Federations
16/01/2023 - 30/01/2023
Nicole De Palmenaer
PhD Candidate at the Institute for Political Science at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH-Aachen) - Germany
Three regional autonomies in comparison: German-speaking Community, Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen, Autonomous Province of Åland
Comparative federalism, autonomies in multi-level systems, territorial and cultural autonomy, protection of minorities
12/09/2022 – 23/09/2022
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Lidia Bonifati
PhD Candidate in Law, University of Bologna (Italy) and University of Antwerp (Belgium) Teaching Assistant in Comparative Constitutional Law, Department of Legal Studies, University of Bologna. Junior Researcher, Research Group on Government and Law, University of Antwerp.
Comparative constitutional design for divided societies: a model to explain constitutional asymmetries
05/09/2022 – 28/10/2022
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Alessia Setti
PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
European integration, EU multi-level governance, European cross-border cooperation
STSM grant, COST Action / IGCOORD “Intergovernmental Coordination from Local to European Governance”
04/07/2022 – 29/07/2022
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Thabile Chonco
Researcher and LLD candidate, Dullah Omar Institute, and lecturer in the Department of Public Law & Jurisprudence, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
One size does not fit all: An examination of the legal and policy framework for differentiated powers and functions of municipalities in South Africa
EU Horizon 2020 RISE project LoGov-secondment
03/06/2022 – 26/08/2022
Chiara Salati
PhD candidate in Global studies. Justice, rights, politics, University of Macerata (Italy) - Researcher, research group Government and Law, University of Antwerp (Belgium)
EU cities, civic participation, urban commons, horizontal subsidiarity principle
23/05/2022 - 22/07/2022
Lucas González
Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and the Argentine Catholic University, Full Professor at the National University of San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Federalism, subnational politics, fiscal relations, subnational extractivism, Latin American politics and political economy
EU Horizon 2020 RISE project LoGov-secondment
16/05/2022 – 18/08/2022
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Romina Del Tredici
Doctoral researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, Universidad Católica de Córdoba y Universidad Nacional de San Martín
Civic Participation, Subnational Inequality, Perceptions of Inequality
EU Horizon 2020 RISE project LoGov-secondment
16/05/2022 – 18/08/2022
Prof. Erin Delaney
Professor of Law with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
Constitutionalism in comparative perspective, focusing on federalism and judicial design in federal systems
Federal Scholar in Residence-award-winning manuscript: 'The Federal Case for Judicial Review'
Federal Scholar in Residence 2022
16/05/2022 – 20/05/2022
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Assoc. Prof. Martin Horak
Associate Professor of Political Science at Western University, Canada
Urban policy-making, multilevel governance of cities, relationship between daily urban life and politics
EU Horizon 2020 RISE project LoGov-secondment
09/05/2022 – 24/05/2022
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Karel Reybrouck
PhD Researcher in Constitutional Law at KU Leuven (Belgium)
Federalism, Division of powers in multilevel systems
11/04/2022 – 27/05/2022
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Miguel Ángel Sevilla Duro
Lecturer and PhD Candidate in Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law of Albacete, University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
Supranational integrations, Federalism and regionalism, multilevel governance
Research grant: Ayuda para la Formación del Profesorado Universitario (FPU), Ministry of Universities of Spain.
07/03/2022 – 21/05/2022
Dani Cetrà© Dani Cetrà
Dr. Daniel Cetrà
Research Fellow, Centre on Constitutional Change, Edinburgh
Nationalism, territorial politics, and linguistic and minority rights
Federal Scholar in Residence-award-winning manuscript: 'State Nationalism and Territorial Accommodation: Founding Moments and their Legacies in Spain and India'
Federal Scholar in Residence 2021
05/10/2021 – 23/10/2021
Yonatan Fessha© Eurac Research
Prof. Yonatan Fessha
Professor and research fellow, Dullah Omar Institute under the SARChI in Multilevel Government, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Federalism, intergovernmental relations, multilevel government, provincial and local governments
EU Horizon 2020 RISE project LoGov-secondment
03/08/2020 – 31/01/2021
Marina Andeva, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Political Science, University American College, Skopje, North Macedonia
Transborder policies, non-territorial autonomy, European policy making, European integration
COST Action / ENTAN
23/02/2020 – 07/03/2020
Patricia Popelier© Patricia Popelier
Prof. Patricia Popelier
Full professor, Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp, Director of the research group of government and law
Federalism, multilevel governance, constitutional review, legislative studies; dynamic federalism
22/02/2020 – 03/03/2020
Asst. Prof. Dr. Natalija Shikova
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, International Balkan University, North Macedonia
Non-territorial autonomy, international law, EU law
COST Action / ENTAN
03/02/2020 – 09/02/2020
Oleksii Kolesnykov
Representative of the Ukrainian think tank – Association for Community Self-Organization Assistance
Decentralization issues in Ukraine and worldwide
Internship / International Renaissance Foundation
26/09/2019 – 09/10/2019
Lucas I. González© Petra Malfertheiner
Asst. Prof. Lucas I. González
Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and the Argentine Catholic University, Associate Professor at the National University of San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Federalism, Latin American politics, development studies, fiscal relations, and political economy
EU Horizon 2020 RISE project LoGov-secondment
09/08/2019 – 06/09/2019
Óscar Moreno Corchete© Petra Malfertheiner
Óscar Moreno Corchete
Lecturer and Researcher in Training at the Faculty of Law and at the Research Center for Global Governance, University of Salamanca
Regional identity, federalism and regionalism, local governments. PhD working title: 'Identity as basis of the territorial organisation of the state'
Guest researcher / grant, Ayuda para la Formación de Profesorado Universitario (FPU)
01/07/2019 – 30/09/2019
Michelle Rufaro Maziwisa© Petra Malfertheiner
Michelle Rufaro Maziwisa
Postdoctoral research fellow, Dullah Omar Institute under the SARChI in Multilevel Government, University of the Western Cape
Multilevel government, provincial and local governments, economic development, trade and investment facilitation, gendered dimensions of economic governance
EU Horizon 2020 RISE project LoGov-secondment
03/07/2019 – 30/08/2019
Andrew Harding© Andrew Harding
Prof. Andrew Harding
Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Asian, especially South East Asian Legal Studies, Comparative Law, Constitutional Law, and Law and Development
Federal Scholar in Residence-award-winning manuscript: 'The Constitutional Dimensions of Decentralisation and Local Self-Government in Asia'
Federal Scholar in Residence 2019 and EU Horizon 2023 RISE project LoGov-secondment
29/04/2019 – 17/05/2019
Greta Gallerano© Petra Malfertheiner
Greta Gallerano
Lecturer at the Università degli Studi della Calabria
Fiscal federalism in Spain and Italy
10/09/2018 – 18/09/2018
Lucas I. González© Petra Malfertheiner
Asst. Prof. Lucas I. González
Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and the Argentine Catholic University, and Associate Professor at the National University of San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Federalism, Latin American politics, development studies, fiscal relations, and political economy
Federal Scholar in Residence-award-winning manuscript: 'Federalism, Inequality, and Redistribution in Latin America'
Federal Scholar in Residence 2018
13/06/2018 – 27/06/2018
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Patrick Utz
Researcher at the Centre on Constitutional Change, University of Edinburgh
Party Europeanization and Minority–Kin-state Relations
PhD title: Kin-minority parties in a (dis)integrating Europe: Cross-border cooperation and irredentism in the European Union
31/05/2018 – 30/06/2018
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Katharina Crepaz, PhD
Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich, Germany
National and "new" minorities in the EU; Europeanization; Political participation of people with disabilities; Regionalism and Federalism; Participation, Diversity and Inclusion in the European Multi-Level-Governance System; European and national Social Policy; Comparative Policy Analysis; Transnational civil society and advocacy networks
30/04/2018 – 27/07/2018