Professor Federico Fabbrini, who defended his PhD thesis at the Law Department in 2012, has been awarded funding from the European Commission to establish and lead a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence called REBUILD, ‘Recovery of Europe, Budget of the Union: Integration, Law & Democracy’ at DCU.
Funded under the EU Erasmus+ programme, REBUILD is a multi-disciplinary research centre coordinated by DCU’s Brexit Institute, with the aim to examine in depth one of the most ground-breaking developments in European integration, the Next Generation EU (NGEU) Recovery Fund. “The award of this grant,” shared Fabbrini, “builds on the research and policy successes of the Brexit Institute,” an initiative of DCU that acts as a knowledge and research hub for the academic and political analysis of Brexit.
During the three-year project, REBUILD will investigate the EU’s response to the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Led by the project’s principal investigator, Professor Fabbrini, the REBUILD team can count on the expertise of other former members of the EUI community, including Law Alumna and former Research Associate at the EUI Florence School of Banking and Finance, Christy Ann Petit, Law Alumna, Janine Silga, and former Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre, Ian Cooper.
Federico Fabbrini is currently Professor of European Law at Dublin City University and Founding Director of the Brexit Institute. He holds a PhD and LLM in Law from the European University Institute. His research focuses on EU law, spanning from the field of fundamental rights to Economic and Monetary Union, up to Brexit and the future of Europe. He has published articles in leading international legal journals; contributed to and edited a number of legal volumes; and authored three books in Italian. More recently, he has been selected to be a European Young Leader in the Friends of Europe’s cohort for 2022.