Paolo Sandro

WORK HISTORY

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ABOUT PAOLO SANDRO

I joined the University of Leeds in November 2021 as a Lecturer in Law, having previously worked at the University of Salford (Manchester) and at Liverpool Hope University.I hold a PhD in Legal Theory from the University of Edinburgh and one in Public Law from the University of Roma Tre (Rome). At Roma Tre I also completed my Laurea Triennale (20••••05) and Laurea Specialistica (20••••07) in Law. I am a Michael Beverley Innovation Fellow (23-24), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and have been a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bergamo (Italy).My main areas of research are:legal theorypublic law (UK and comparative)regulation theorypolitical theoryphilosophy of languagephilosophy of action.My first monograph, entitled ‘The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law’, was published by Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury in January 2022, as part of the prestigious Law and Practical Reason series. The book brings all my research interests together. It does so through an integrated jurisprudential methodology, which combines insights from different disciplines (including history, anthropology, political science, philosophy of language, and philosophy of action) while also casting new light on long-standing issues in jurisprudence and public law.The book is now full Open Access (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) and can be freely downloaded from https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=45•••56.You can find our more about the book in my interviews with the IACL-AIDC Blog and with Review of Democracy, as well as in this vlog for Diritti Comparati. You can also watch the recordings of my book presentations at the University of Oxford and University of Belgrade.The book has received so far incredibly generous reviews by Felipe Jimenez in the American Journal of Jurisprudence, by Barbara Levenbook in Jotwell, by Sebastian Lewis in the Modern Law Review, and by Conor Crummey in Jurisprudence. It was also recommended by the Legal Theory Bookworm as one of the blog’s ten favourite books in 2022 and by RevDem as one of the five 2022 key books about the Rule of Law.I regularly provide commentary on salient legal and constitutional issues in the UK and abroad on the UKCLA Blog, on Verfassungsblog, on ICONnect, and for UK in a Changing Europe.My work has been published, among others, in edited collections in legal theory by Springer (open access here) and by Edward Elgar, in Res Publica, and in Rivista Italiana di Diritto Pubblico e Comunitario.