Matteo Bonelli (M.)
Matteo Bonelli is Associate Professor of EU Law at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University.
Matteo's research focuses on EU constitutional law, and in particular on the EU's tool to protect its fundamental values. I have published also on other topics of EU institutional, constitutional and fundamental rights' law.
In Maastricht Matteo is a member of the Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL) and the Globalisation and Law Network.
Matteo is course coordinator of the LLM course Advanced European Law and a member of the planning group for the bachelor's course Constitutional Law.
Expertises
• EU Constitutional Law
• EU Democracy and Rule of Law
• EU Institutional Law
• EU Fundamental Rights Law
Career history
Matteo Bonelli (1988) holds a Bachelor and Master's Degree in Law from the University of Torino, Italy (2012) and a LL.M. in European Law (cum laude, 2013) and a PhD (cum laude, 2019) from Maastricht University.
From September 2014 to August 2018, Matteo was s a PhD researcher at the International and European Law Department of the Faculty of Law. He defended his thesis ('A Union of Values: Safeguarding Democracy, the Rule of Law and Human Rights in the EU Member States') in June 2019.
From September 2018 to August 2019, he was a Post-doc researcher at the Faculty of Law of the University of Milan.
He then returned to Maastricht University as Assistant Professor of EU law, where he is a member of the Maastricht Centre for European Law (MCEL) and the Globalisation and Law Network.
Between January and May 2020, Matteo was an Emile Noël Fellow and the Jean Monnet Center of New York Univeristy (NYU). In 2023, he was a re:constitution fellow at the Bocconi Lab for European Studies (BLEST, Bocconi University, Milan) and the Center for Media Freedom and Media Pluralism (Florence).
Matteo is an executive editor of the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law and sits in the editorial board of European Constitutional Law Review (EuConst).