麻豆传媒

Qualifications

Laurea in Giurisprudenza University of Florence
MJur University of Oxford
MPhil University of Oxford
DPhil University of Sussex

My research examines how European Union law enables the pursuit of policy choices shaped by local conceptions of shared values, and addresses the tension between this pluralist aspiration and the need to create and maintain a shared European normative space.

My work on EU State aid law and, in particular, my 2012 considered the extent to which the European Commission and the European Court of Justice have shaped key areas of national economic policy, and whether these interventions are compatible with a pluralist understanding of European integration, or whether they amount to the imposition of a specific view of how States should run their economies.

My (past and recent) work on fundamental human rights in EU law seeks to identify interpretive parameters that enable pluralism to flourish without undermining either integration or the foundational values of the EU. In this work, I try to elucidate some puzzling features of the law in this connection. I have examined, in particular: the role of EU fundamental rights review where Member States pursue higher regulatory standards than those set by EU ‘’; the significance and implications of the claim that free movement rights are ‘’; and, more recently, the meaning and purpose of the doctrine of the ‘ of fundamental rights. Drawing on, and expanding, the latter theme, my current research explores the constitutional implications of an illiberal-nativist turn in European mainstream politics.

Postgraduate Supervision

I welcome applications in any area of EU constitutional and administrative law.

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Administrative Law & Human Rights (module convenor, lectures and seminars)

Constitutional Law (seminars)

EU law (seminars)

• Articles

  • De Cecco F. . Common Market Law Review 2023, 60(6), 1551-1578.
  • de Cecco F. . German Law Journal 2014, 15(3), 383-406.
  • De Cecco, F. The Many Meanings of ‘Competition’ in EC State Aid Law. Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 2007, 9, 111 - 131.
  • de Cecco F. . Common Market Law Review 2006, 43(1), 9-30.

• Authored Book

  • de Cecco F. . Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2013.

• Book Chapters

  • De Cecco F. . In: Alicia Hinarejos and Robert Schütze, ed. EU Fiscal Federalism: Past, Present, Future. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, pp.31-56.
  • De Cecco F. . In: Juan Jorge Piernas López; Leigh Hancher; Luca Rubini, ed. The Future of EU State Aid Law. Madrid: EU Law Live, 2023, pp.25-39.
  • De Cecco F. . In: Varju, M, ed. Between Compliance and Particularism: Member State Interests and European Union Law. Cham: Springer, 2019, pp.129-145.
  • De Cecco F. . In: The Reach of Free Movement. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2017, pp.253-271.
  • Gray J, de Cecco F. . In: Laprévote F-C; Gray J; de Cecco F, ed. Research Handbook on State Aid in the Banking Sector. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017, pp.20-53.
  • de Cecco F. . In: Shuibhne, N.N., Gormley, L, ed. From Single Market to Economic Union: Essays in Memory of John A. Usher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp.221-239.
  • De Cecco F. State Aid and Self-Government: Regional Taxation and the Shifting Spaces of Constitutional Autonomy. In: From Single Market to Economic Union: Essays in Memory of John A. Usher. Oxford University Press, 2012, pp.-.
  • de Cecco F. . In: Gray, J; Akseli, O, ed. Financial Regulation in Crisis: The Role of Law and the Failure of Northern Rock. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2011, pp.56-71.
  • de Cecco F. Politiche sociali e divieto di aiuti di stato. In: Sciarra, S, ed. Solidarieta, mercato e concorrenza nel welfare italiano. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007.

• Note

  • de Cecco F. . Common Market Law Review 2021, 58(1), 187-200.

• Online Publication

  • de Cecco F. . UKCLA, 2016. Available at: .

• Reviews

  • De Cecco F. . Common Market Law Review 2018, 55(4), 1283-1284.
  • de Cecco F. . European Law Review 2015, 40(1), 118-120.