People

Sabrina Ragone teaches comparative law at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, where she holds the post of head of international relations. She is Senior Research Affiliate of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), where she pursued her research between 2015 and 2017. Previously, she was García Pelayo Fellow at the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales – Madrid (2012-2015) and researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (2011-2012).  

She is ROLLBACK Jean Monnet Chair Holder (2023/2026), as well as the coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module EU_SOCIAL (2022/2025) and the PI of the national project SPACE “Swinging Peripheries And Centers in Europe: Comparative Legal Dimensions of Territory", funded by the Italian Ministry of Education (2023/2025). She was also the coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module CRISES (2018/2021). 

She is a member of the Advisory Board of the “Initiative on Global Law and Policy for the Americas” (GLPA), University of Houston Law Center Faculty, of the Scientific Committee of Istituto Cattaneo and of the Scientific Committee of the University’s Collegio Superiore and Istituto di Studi superiori. 

María Díaz Crego currently works as référendaire at the Spanish Constitutional Court. Before joining the Court, she worked as policy analyst specialised in institutional and constitutional affairs at the European Parliamentary Research Service of the European Parliament (2018-2023). From 2006 to 2018, she was Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Alcala (Spain) and Visiting Fellow at several other universities and research institutes, including Harvard Law School and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. She holds a PhD in Law (Doctor Europeus) from the Complutense University in Madrid and conducted part of her doctoral research at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy).

Caterina Drigo is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna, where she teaches Fundamental Rights and Regional Law and where she is also the Coordinator of the Degree Course in Legal Advisor in Business and Public Administration

At the Department of Cultural Heritage of the same University, she teaches Systems of Protection of Fundamental Rights.

Her research activity is oriented towards the study of fundamental human rights, environmental law, national and comparative constitutional law and regional law. She is the author of two books and co-editor of several others, as well as the author of numerous articles and essays in volumes and national and international journals. 

Anuscheh Farahat is Professor of Public Law, Migration Law and Human Rights Law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 2022, she was appointed Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, where she leads the research project ‘Just Migration: Labour migration regimes in transnationalised contexts’. She is also a Senior Research Affiliate at the MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg. From 2017–23, she led an Emmy-Noether research group on transnational solidarity conflicts in Europe. She publishes widely on issues of European and European constitutional law, German and international migration and citizenship law, international Human Rights Law and comparative constitutionalism.

Adoración Galera Victoria is Senior Lecturer in Constitutional Law at the University of Granada. Her scientific interests lead her to examine European law, regional systems, the impact of globalisation and Artificial Intelligence on fundamental Rights. Researcher in more than a dozen competitive research projects financed with national and European public funds, she is the author of more than 60 publications. Her academic activity has led her to participate actively in scientific meetings and conferences. She has carried out research visits to the European Court of Human Rights and to universities in Europe (Cambrigde,
Bologna, Rome, Düsseldorf) and Latin America (Externado, Nordeste and Federal de Paraiba).

Bogdan Iancu is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest (Department of Political and Constitutional History and Theory).  His teaching and writing focus on Romanian and comparative constitutional law, EU constitutionalism and emerging rule of law conditionalities, history of constitutionalism and constitutional theory. He obtained his LL.B. at the Al. I. Cuza University of Iași (1996), Romania; LL.M. (1997) and SJD/Dr. iur. (2006) (CEU, Budapest).He has conducted research at various law faculties and institutes in Europe and North America, including Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Toronto and Yale Law School, 2000-2001; Boulton Fellowship at McGill University, Faculty of Law, 2002-2004;  Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Bremen and Berlin, 2008-2010, Max Planck Fellowship (2018) and Humboldt Return Fellowship (2021) at MPI Heidelberg. Has led and participated in numerous research projects (currently PI of the ROLPERIPHERAL project , https://nec.ro/programs/rolperipheral/ , hosted by New Europe College, Bucharest).

Mario Kölling is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the UNED and researcher at the Manuel Giménez Abad Foundation. From 2011 to 2014 he was García Pelayo researcher at the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales in Madrid. Mario Kölling has been a visiting researcher at the Centre for European Integration at the Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Science in Berlin and the European University Institute in Florence. Mario Kölling has been involved in several research projects. Since 2022 he is Working package leader of the LEGITIMULT project, funded by the Horizon Europe programme. Since 2021 he is lead researcher with Cesar Colino of the project: Institutional reforms in multilevel systems: (PID2020-116659GB-I00).

Francesco Niccolò Moro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University (Europe). His research focuses on collective violence, with reference to the strategies and organizational features of armed groups (and organized crime), on the relationship between violence and governance, and on national security policies. Francesco has been teaching and/or researching at the University of Warwick, University of Florence, the University of Milan-Bicocca, LUISS Guido Carli, Istituto Italiano di ScienzeUmane, MIT, Italian Air Force, and the Fondazione Bruno Kessler.

Perju is a professor of constitutional, comparative and EU law at Boston College Law School. He has a doctorate from Harvard Law School, an LLM summa from the European Academy of Legal Theory (Belgium), and law degrees from the University of Bucharest and University of Paris 1. He served as the Chair of the Section on EU Law of the Association of American Law Schools, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and, for a decade, the Director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at BC. Some of his representative publications include: Reason and Authority in the European Court of Justice (awarded the Ius Commune Prize), Cosmopolitanism and Constitutional Self-Government , Against Bidimensional Supremacy in EU Constitutionalism, On Uses and Misuses of Human Rights in European Constitutionalism, Constitutional Transplants, Borrowing and Migrations, Elements of a Doctrine of Transnational Constitutional Norms.