Dr Andrea Silipigni
About
I completed my Master of Law by Research at the Kent Law School. Currently, I am a PhD Candidate at the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (ISCSP) – Universidade de Lisboa. In addition to this, I am member of the Centro de Administração e Politicas Publicas (ISCSP), as well as member of the Accademia Diritto e Migrazioni (Università della Tuscia). These two centres provide an inspiring environment which helps in analysing political, economic and social phenomena through critical, as well as original understandings.
Research interests
Consistently with the research conducted during my Master’s degree in the UK (under the supervision of Dr Parfitt and Dr Haslam), I conduct a critical analysis regarding neo-liberalism, the European Union, and its member states. More specifically, I analyse the relevance of nation-states within the EU’s neo-liberal governance via a bottom-up perspective rather than a top-down one. In conclusion, the most part of my research refers to the Italian Republic for a twofold reason: in the first place, it is my native country so I am particularly familiar with political, legal, economic and social dynamics of the country itself; in the second place, Italy has always been an interesting dimension which has normally challenged the mainstream political and legal theories.
PhD research project
Project title: Neoliberal Restructuring in the Eurozone Crisis: ‘New Constitutionalism’ and Italy’s Post-Crisis Legal Transformations, 2014-2016.
Project description: The dissertation seeks to critically analyse the reform process put in – in the aftermath of the 2007 financial and economic crisis – within the European Union and in Italy from a different point of view. Specifically, applying Stephen Gill’s ‘new constitutionalism of disciplinary neoliberalism’ theoretical framework, the reform of the labour market, as well as the institutional reform – proposed and partially implemented by Renzi Cabinet, between 2014-2016 – in Italy do not seem to be a mere ‘domestic’ or ‘internal’ issue. By contrast, this thesis argues that such regulations envisage a neoliberal restructuring of the Italian politico-legal system, which would confirm Gill’s claim that new constitutionalist measures aim to shift nation states from social democratic towards neoliberal orders.