Marco Antonio Simonelli

Schumann Fellow 2025-2026

Assistant  Professor  of  Constitutional  law  at  the  Universitat  de Barcelona

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marco  Antonio  Simonelli  is  Assistant  Professor  of  Constitutional  law  at  the  Universitat  de Barcelona and a Schumann Fellow at the University of Münster for 2025-2026. He obtained his Ph.D. in Comparative Constitutional Law from the Università di Siena, an LL.M. in European Law from the University of Leiden, and a Law Degree from the University of Pisa. Alongside his academic career he has completed research stays at the Max Plank Institute for Comparative and International  Public  Law  in  Heidelberg  and  at  the  Centre  of  Comparative  and  European Constitutional Studies (CECS) of the University of Copenhagen. He was also an intern at the Rome Criminal Court of Appeal and the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe.

Dr. Simonelli research’s interests currently focus on the multifaceted contemporary challenges to liberal constitutional democracy with particular attention to counter-majoritarian institutions. He is the  author  of  the  book  “European  and  "The  European  Court  of  Human  Rights  and  National Constitutional  Courts:  A  Study  in  the  ECtHR  Case  Law"  (Springer,  2024)  and  co-editor  of "Populism  and  Contemporary  Democracy:  Old  Problems  and  New  Challenges"  (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) as well as several academic articles and commentaries in the field of European constitutional law published in national and international law journals.