Visiting researchers

Post-doctoral researcher in Comparative Constitutional Law at LUMSA University of Rome

Italian and comparative constitutional law, federalism and minority rights, with special reference to 'arbëreshë' linguistic minority

20/01/2025 – 31/01/2025

PhD Candidate at School of Law and Criminology, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia

Indigenous language rights in Australian law, in a comparative perspective, including a focus study on the Noongar settlement

01/09/2024 – 13/12/2024

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 2020 RISE project LoGov-secondment

01/07/2024 – 28/09/2024

Associate Professor, Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Multilevel government in Africa: The potential to realize development, deepen democracy and sustain peace

EU Horizon 2020 RISE project LoGov-secondment

01/06/2024 – 01/08/2024

Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University, UK

Does nation-building trump short-term tax innovation in the use of fiscal powers by autonomist regions?

14/05/2024 – 14/06/2024

Ximpulse, Bern, Switzerland

Conflict mediation and participatory processes

EU Horizon 2020 RISE project LoGov-secondment

30/03/2024 – 16/04/2024 and 29/06/2024 – 12/07/2024

Lecturer at the University of Southampton School of Law, UK

Constitutional and administrative law, legal and political philosophy, health law, policy, and ethics

Federal Scholar in Residence-award-winning manuscript: ‘Judicial Review and the Basic Architecture of Federalism‘

Federal Scholar in Residence 2024

04/02/2024 – 16/02/2024

School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Federalism and the Welfare State in Comparative Perspective, focusing on the politics of poverty alleviation in Latin American federations

Australian Centre for Federalism, Researcher Exchange Program

25/09/2023 - 13/10/2023

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

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

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

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 2020 RISE project LoGov-secondment

14/05/2023 – 28/07/2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PhD Researcher in Constitutional Law at KU Leuven (Belgium)

Federalism, Division of powers in multilevel systems

11/04/2022 – 27/05/2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lecturer at the Università degli Studi della Calabria

Fiscal federalism in Spain and Italy

10/09/2018 – 18/09/2018

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

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

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