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Visiting researchers

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    Katja Laffusa

    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

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    Anna Wolf

    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

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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 2020 RISE project LoGov-secondment

    01/07/2024 – 28/09/2024

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    Prof. Tinashe C Chigwata

    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

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    Dr. Ed Gareth Poole

    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

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    Dr. Ursula König

    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

    Dr. Michael Da Silva

    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

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    Assoc. Prof. Tracy B. Fenwick

    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

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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

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    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

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    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 2020 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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    Greta Gallerano

    Lecturer at the Università degli Studi della Calabria

    Fiscal federalism in Spain and Italy

    10/09/2018 – 18/09/2018

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    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

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