Dr Carlo Panara, Degree in Law, PhD (Perugia, Italy), PGCHE (Hull, UK)

Contact Details -

Address: John Foster Building, 98 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5UZ
Telephone:
Email: C.Panara@ljmu.ac.uk

Teaching

Dr Carlo Panara is Senior Lecturer in EU and Public Law and Research Coordinator for the School of Law.

Research Interests

Carlo is an expert on regionalism, federalism, and European integration. He published a monograph titled ‘German Federalism of the Basic Law from Cooperation to Competition’ (Aracne, Rome, 2008), and is co-editor (with Alexander De Becker) of the book ‘The Role of the Regions in the European Governance’ (Springer, Heidelberg, 2011).

Biography

Carlo originally comes from Perugia, Italy. Prior to joining Liverpool John Moores University in January 2010, he taught at the University of Perugia School of Law and at the University of Hull Law School. He was a Postgraduate Research Fellow of the Istituto Pio della Sapienza and of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at Max Planck Institute of Comparative Law and Public International Law (Heidelberg, Germany). Carlo’s native language is Italian. He is a fluent English and German speaker and despite an excellent teacher, failed to learn Chinese. He likes entertaining his daughter, classical music, football, reading, gardening, and cooking.

Current Research 

a) Edited books:

1. (2011) The Role of the Regions in EU Governance [co-edited with Alexander De Becker], Springer, Heidelberg (for a profile of this publication see http://www.springer.com/law/book/978-3-642-11902-6).  

b) Chapters in edited collections:

2. (2011) Preface ( with Alexander De Becker), in: C. Panara and A. De Becker (eds.), The Role of the Regions in EU Governance, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. v-viii.

3. (2011) Germany – A Cooperative Solution to the Challenge of the European Integration, in: Carlo Panara and Alexander De Becker (eds.), The Role of the Regions in EU Governance, Springer, Heidelberg.

4. (2011) The Role of the Regions in the European Union: The ‘Regional Blindness’ of both the EU and the Member States (with Alexander De Becker), in: Carlo Panara and Alexander De Becker (eds.), The Role of the Regions in EU Governance, Springer, Heidelberg.

c) Journal articles:

5. (2011) In the Name of God: State and Religion in Contemporary Italy, in: Religion & Human Rights, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 75-104.

6. (2011) Lautsi v. Italy: The Display of Religious Symbols by the State, in: European Public Law, Vol. 17, No.1, pp. 139-168.

7. (2010) In the Name of Cooperation: The External Relations of the German Länder and Their Participation in the EU Decision-Making, in: European Constitutional Law Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 59-83.

d) Encyclopaedia entries:
 
8. (2010) Peaceful Coexistence, in: Rüdiger Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law (Oxford: OUP).

e) Conference papers:

9. 23 October 2010, Conference ‘Law as a Unifying Factor of Europe – Jurisprudence and Practice’, Comenius University of Bratislava, Slovakia – Title of paper: The Regions in the Council of the European Union: True Participation is at Home (with Alexander De Becker). 

10. 22 October 2010, Conference ‘From School Exclusion Orders to Anti-Terror Laws: Human Rights and the Use of Law in the Modern State’, British Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, UK – Title of paper: Keep the Barbarians Out of the Empire! The ‘Refoulement’ Doctrine in Italy. 

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