COMANDE', Daniela

Max Weber Fellow 2011-2012, 2012-2013 

Email Daniela.Comande@EUI.eu  
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 671
Office VF 41

European University Institute
Max Weber Programme
Via delle Fontanelle 10
I-50014 San Domenico

Departmental affiliation: Law  
Mentor: Dennis Patterson    

My main research interests and specialisations lie in the fields of labour law, industrial relations and European law. Prior to joining the EUI as a Max Weber Fellow, I was a Research Fellow in Labour Law at the University of Catania, where I was a teaching assistant for the course of Labour Law, EU Labour Law and Labour Law and the Public Administrations at the Faculties of Law and Political Science. As an Adjunct Professor I have taught Labour Law at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Catania (A.Y. 2009/2010).

I hold a Ph.D. in European Labour Law at the University of Catania, for which I discussed a thesis on the European autonomous bargaining process and its link with the social right to collective bargaining. The Ph.D. was awarded summa cum laude by the unanimous vote of the jury. The quality of my research has been recognised by the Italian Society of Labour Law (AIDLASS) with a Special Mention.

During the Max Weber Fellowship I will focus on the impact of the new EU industrial relations system on the European integration process. The development of the new model of supranational collective bargaining in relation with the evolution of the European legal system could prove to be the most fertile soil to increase pluralist European governance, inspired by the principle of democratic participation.

I have also worked on a number of funded research projects which cover a wide range of issues concerning relevant aspects of national and EU legislation and jurisprudence: training contracts and federalist developments, job regulation in the public and private area and temporary agency work. I’m also involved in a research network funded by the Italian Ministry of Education on the social rights in written constitutions and living law. I have published articles and essays on various topics of labour law in many important journals of labour law. 

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