I received my Ph.D. in Law from EUI (Florence, Italy) in 2009. Since then, I have worked as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Tilburg, as an Assistant Professor at Maastricht University (The Netherlands) and as a Senior Research Fellow at the LSE. Currently, I am Professor of European Constitutional Law at the University of East Anglia (UEA). 

My work analyses how the EU constitutional order recognises and accommodates different aspects of the right to self-determination. My first monograph explained how the EU engages politically and economically with an unrecognised entity that has exercised its right to external self-determination and lies within its borders. My forthcoming book examines how the European constitutional landscape accommodates internal self-determination—regions that enjoy legislative autonomy. Recently, my research has focused on the implications of Brexit for the right to internal and external self-determination of the UK constituent nations that voted to remain in the EU. I have acted as an adviser to the European Parliament’s GUE/NGL Parliamentary Group for Brexit related issues. 

You can find more information in my website 'On Secessions, Constitutions and EU law' 

EU Law; Comparative Constitutional Law; Brexit; EU External Relations Law; Conflict Resolution; Federalism; Self-Determination; Secession; Balkans; Catalonia; Cyprus; Greece; Northern Ireland; Spain; Scotland; Turkey

EU Law; Brexit; EU Constitutional Law; EU External Relations Law; Comparative Constitutional Law; Federalism; Secession; Self-Determination