2020 dissertation prize online award ceremony with Matteo Bonelli

Last Wednesday, June 23, Matteo Bonelli received from the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation the 2020 Dissertation Prize for his PhD research ‘A Union of Values – Safeguarding Democracy, the Rule of Law, and Human Rights in the EU Member States’. The PhD was written in Maastricht under the supervision of Prof. Monica Claes and Bruno De Witte and defended in June 2019.

The Erasmianum Foundation awards every year five prizes for PhD dissertations in the field of humanities and social sciences. The prize was presented by Prof. Rick Lawson, member of the dissertation prize committee and Professor of European Law at Leiden University.

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