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Dr Vito Breda



Dr Vito Breda

Position: Lecturer
School: Law

Tel: +44 (0)29 208 76101
Fax: +44 (0)29 208 74097
Email: BredaV@cf.ac.uk
Ext: 76101

Point of contact: Linda Bailey


Interests
   Identity, Citizenship,
   Jurisprudence, Constitutional Theory, Habermas

Links
   Alunni, Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh

Introduction

Dr Breda   main research interests lies on constitutional patriotism   as a method of   accommodation of identity based constitutional claims such  as the one promoted by national identity  groups (in Britain, Spain and Italy) , religious communities In particular, Vito is interested on the benefits, by a way of comparison to their in advance exclusions, of  considering these claims as elements of a modern (highly diversified) liberal  democracy.  Dr Breda holds a fellowship from the British Higher Education  Academy.


In 2010 he was appointed visiting fellow  at the Center for European Studies at Canberra Australia National University. Since 2008 he has been visiting professor  in comparative thought  at  Madrid  Law School (Comillas Pontifical University) and  Bilbao (University of Deusto).  


Before joining the Cardiff Law School, Dr Breda worked as researcher for the Scottish Parliament.  He studied for his PhD at the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh, obtained his Master degree from the Academy of Legal Theory in Brussels - Katholieke Universiteit Brussels, and received his Honour degree (Dottore in Giusprudenza, indirizzo forense)  from the Universita’ degli Studi di Milano,  Facolta di Giurisprudenza.


Publications:


Breda V. - How to reverse the Italian Brain Drain, Immigration, Refugee, & Citizenship Law, 13 (16), (2012)


Breda V. - Balancing Secularism with Religius Freedom: in Lautsi v Italy the European Court of Human Rights Evolved , (Eds Manogue A) Legitimizing Human Righs,  Ashgate, Oxford, (2012), ISBN 978-1-4094-5002-3


Breda V. - Constitutional patriotism: A reasonable theory of radical democracy? Constitutional Patriotism and Identity (Eds Zagor M), Australian National University  Press, Canberra, (2012),


Breda V. - An Odd  Partnership : Identity Base Constitutional Claims in Modern Democracy,  Alliance and Identity in a Globalised World (2012) vol II, (Eds Rubinstein K ), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, (2012), 


Breda V. - The Odd Case of LEFO, Journal of Commonwealth Law and Legal Education, 8 (1) 59 - 89 ISSN: 1776 – 1401, (2011),


Breda V. - Constitutional Identities in a Liquid Society, in Priban (Ed), Liquid Society and Its Law, Ashgate, ISBN 7546 7072 4, (2007),


Breda V. - A European Constitution in a Multinational Europe or a Multinational Constitution for Europe? European Law Journal, 12 (3),  330 -344, (2006),


Breda V. - The Incoherence of the Patriotic State, in Res Publica, (3) 247 – 265, (2004),


Reviews: 


Breda V. - Jurisprudence of National Identity in New Zeeland, by Nan Seuffert, Social and Legal Studies, 18/4 , 567- 569, (2011),


Breda V. -  Constitutional Futures Revisited, Britain's Constitution to 2020 (ed Hazell) Public Law , (2),  446 – 449 (2011),


Breda V. -  Public Law and Politics by Emilios Christodoulidis and Stephen Tierney, Modern Law Review  72 (6),  (2009),


Breda V. - Constitutional Dilemmas: Conflicts of Fundamental Legal Rights in Europe and the USA, by Zucca. L. Modern Law Review 72 (2) 325 -327 (2009), 


Recent presentations:


20 October 2011, FP7 Ethics Review, how to pass it?,  Cardiff.


15 August 2011 The Concept of Objectivity, Human Rights in the UK and Europe. Frankfurt am Main,


19 of July 2011 Identity Claims in Modern Constitutional Democracy,  Centre for international and Public Law  Workshop ANU  National Identity and Ideal Constitutional Systems  ANU Canberra.


14  of July 2010,  Identity Claims in Modern Constitutional Democracy,   Center for the Interdisciplinary Studies of Law UNSW Sydney


19 March 2010: The odd case of British Constitutional Patriotism, Belgrade Law School


20 Sept 2009; Identity, Normativity: A decline gambit, World Congress of Legal Philosophy, Beijin.


15 June 2008; Constitutional Polities in a Cosmopolitan Societies, Swansee Law School, Swansee


3 May 2008; The United Kingdom Constitutional Devolution: A New Development in Constitutional Theory? Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid


3  February 2008; Ostriches and Foxes; the Constitutional Accommodation of Sub-State National Identities Claims, Bangor, Wales.


3-6 October 2007: Cosmopolitanims and Identity in Europe, II EU-Consent Plenary Conference Brussels.


3-5 September 2007: Constitutional Identities and the case for a UK Constituional Reform, SLS Conference Durham2-7  August 2007:A Reasonable Constitutional Theory and a Radical Politics of Identity, 23rd IVR World Congress. Law and Legal Cultures in the 21st Century: Diversity and Unit, Cracow.


24-29 July 2007: Constitutional Identities in a Globalised Society; Idiosyncrasy or Synergy? The Challenge of Multiculturalism and Interdisciplinarity to Constitutional Rights, Joint Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (ISA).


15 - 16 June 2006, Reflecting on the European quest for a Constitution; the Epistemic Limbo between State-Sovereignty and European Legitimacy , II EU-Consent Plenary Conference Brussels.


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