Prof. Federico Fabbrini

Federico Fabbrini is Full Professor of European Law at the School of Law & Government of Dublin City University (DCU), where he is the founding director of the DCU Brexit Institute (http://dcubrexitinstitute.eu/) and of the Dublin European Law Institute (https://www.dcu.ie/deli ). He is / has been also the Principal Investigator of the EU-funded Jean Monnet Network BRIDGE (2019-2022 https://bridgenetwork.eu/), the EU-funded Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence REBUILD (2022-2025 https://rebuildcentre.eu/ ), the EU-funded Jean Monnet Network PROSPER (2025-2027 https://prospernetwork.eu/ ), the EU-funded Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence COMPETE (2026-2028 https://competecentre.eu/ ), and the EU-funded Jean Monnet Module Post-Brexit Law. He is WP PI in the Horizon Europe project REGROUP (https://regroup-horizon.eu/ ) and of the Horizon Europe project EXPRESS2 (https://express2project.eu/en ).

Federico Fabbrini holds a B.A. in "European & Transnational Legal Studies" from the University of Trento (2006), a J.D. in "International Law" from the University of Bologna (2008) and Ph.D. in "Law" from the European University Institute (2012). He interned as a clerk for Justice Sabino Cassese at the Italian Constitutional Court (2010-2011) and passed the bar, qualified as an attorney at law in Italy (2011). Before joining DCU, he was Associate Professor of "European & International Law" at iCourts (the Center of Excellence for International Courts) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Copenhagen, in Denmark, and Assistant Professor of "European & Comparative Constitutional Law" at Tilburg Law School, in the Netherlands, where he was awarded tenure.

Federico Fabbrini is the author of five monographs in English: "Fundamental Rights Europe: Challenges and Transformations in Comparative Perspective" (Oxford University Press 2014), "Economic Governance in Europe: Comparative Paradoxes and Constitutional Challenges" (Oxford University Press 2016) "Brexit and the Future of the European Union: The Case for Constitutional Reforms" (Oxford University Press 2020), "EU Fiscal Capacity: Legal Integration after Covid-19 an the War in Ukraine" (Oxford University Press 2022) and "The EU Constitution in Time of War: Legal Responses to Russia's Aggression against Ukraine" (Oxford University Press 2025). Moreover, he has edited or co-edited a dozen other volumes, including "The Law & Politics of Brexit" (Oxford University Press 2017), "The Law & Politics of Brexit. Volume II: The Withdrawal Agreement" (Oxford University Press 2020), "The Law & Politics of Brexit. Volume III: The Framework of New EU-UK Relations" (Oxford University Press 2021), "The Law & Politics of Brexit. Volume IV: The Protocol on Ireland / Northern Ireland" (Oxford University Press 2022) and "The Law & Politics of Brexit. Volume V. The Trade & Cooperation Agreement" (Oxford University Press 2024). He is also the author of four books in Italian, including a textbook "Introduzione al diritto dell'Unione europea" (Il Mulino 2018). He has also published dozens of articles in leading law, political science, and history journals.

Federico Fabbrini is in 2026 a Fulbright Schuman Fellow in International Security at the Kennedy School at Harvard University; he has been a Fellow in Law, Ethics and Public Policy at Princeton University, and a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute, and among others a visting professors at Meiji University Tokyo, the University of New South Wales Sydney and University of Virginia Law School.

Federico Fabbrini recurrently engages with EU institutions and national governments and he has been invited to speak, among others the European Central Bank, the European Court of Justice, the European Commission, the European Fundamental Rights Agency, the European Securities Market Authority, the Supreme Court of Ireland, the Ministry of Finance of Ireland, the Central Bank of Spain, and the UK Financial Conduct Authority. Moreover, he has given evidence to the European Parliament Constitutional Affairs Committee, Economic & Monetary Affairs Committee and Budget Committee, as well as the Irish Parliament Joint Committee on EU Affairs and the UK House of Lords. Finally, he has also authored 4 reports on EU affairs at the request of the European Parliament Constitutional Affairs Committee, and another one at the request of the Irish Ministry of Finance / Presidency of the Eurogroup.