Biography

Maria Antonia Panascì is a CIVICA post-doctoral fellow at the European University Institute and a post-doctoral researcher at the Bocconi Lab for European Studies (BLEST), which she joined in 2021 with a project on the impact of Next Generation EU (NGEU) on EU fiscal integration. She is also an Academic Fellow at Bocconi University, where she teaches European Union Law, and a member of the Bocconi Institute for European Policymaking (IEP).

Maria Antonia’s research interests lie in EU constitutional law, in particular in the fields of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), EU citizenship, and welfare law. In her current research project, she draws on the broader constitutional implications of NGEU to explore questions of constitutional change, redistribution, and transformation of legal and social integration patterns within the EU. Her research has been published in the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, the Italian Review of International and Comparative Law, and the Common Market Law Review. Her public engagement activities include a podcast episode and a TEDx talk aimed at disseminating EU law topics to a wider audience.

Maria Antonia holds a PhD in Law from Durham University (2021), where she was a Teaching Fellow in International/EU Law (2021-2021) and Co-Director of the Durham European Law Institute (2021). She was also a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at New York University (2018-2019). For her doctoral studies, she received funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

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