Antoni Abat i Ninet, Ph.D.
Constitutional Law, Founding Principles of the EU, Fundamental Rights and Public Law, Theory of Democracy.
María Zambrano Fellow, UAB
Antoni Abat i Ninet
Antoni Abat i Ninet is currently a visiting professor at the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). Antoni graduated in Law from the University of Girona in 2001 and was awarded a PhD by the University of Barcelona in 2007. Before joining ESADE faculty of law in 2011, he was granted the Juan de la Cierva competitive research scholarship by Spain’s Ministry for Science and Innovation. He taught Comparative Constitutional Law and Ancient Constitutionalism at the State University of New York, the Lincoln Law School of San José and was Visiting Scholar at Stanford University Law School. In 2012, professor Abat joined the CTLS of the law school of Georgetown University where he taught Comparative Constitutional Law and Human Rights. From 2013 to 2020, Antoni has been a full professor and chair of comparative constitutional law at the faculty of law at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark).
Antoni’s research interest:
Constitutional Law
Fundamental Rights / Meta-Constitutional Principles
Philosophy
Human Rights
Theory of Democracy
Legal Theology
Books
Constitutional Crowdsourcing
Revolution, transition, memory and oblivion
The Arab Spring
Constitutional Violence
El Estatuto jurídico de los magistrados del Tribunal Constitucional Español
Hem guanyat, hem perdut
Teoria iusfilosòfica de Jürgen Habermas. Complementació amb l'obra de Bruce Ackerman
Teoria iusfilosòfica de Jürgen Habermas. Complementació amb l'obra de Bruce Ackerman
RESEARCH
KEY PAPERS /CHAPTERS
Book Chapters
- Referendum in Catalonia? in THE LIMITS AND LEGITIMACY OF REFERENDA (Richard Albert and Richard Stacey ed.), (Oxford University Press)
Selected papers
- Distinctive Identity Claims in Federal Systems: Judicial Policing of Subnational Variance (with James Gardner), INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW ICON, 14.2. (2016) 378-410)
- Demagogia and democratic loyalty instead of Oligogia and Constitutional Patriotism, VIENNA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, (2011)
SELECTED CONFERENCES
Antoni Abat i Ninet – The Messianic thought of the rule of law
I-CONnect — Five Questions with Antoni Abat Ninet
Constitutional Crowdsourcing
Charla Antoni Abat: Controversias filosóficas: medidas legales y políticas en la pandemia. 6/4/2021
Constitutional Order
Conferència: «Les competències de les entitats subestatals en el nomenament de magistrats
Catalan Parliament Hearing
Vergadering Werkgroep Institutionele Zaken
HONORS AND AWARDS
– 2019 – (Rapporteur) of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Rule of Law programme Middle East.
– 2019 – Grant of the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, (University of Haifa, Israel) (conference attendance and paper presentation sponsored bythe University of Haifa).
– 2018 – Grant of the Melbourne Institute of Comparative Constitutional Law, Laureate Program.
– 2017 – Grant of the University of Toronto (Canada).
– 2017 – Grant of the Ministry of transparency of the Government of Catalonia. (Conference attendance sponsored by the Government of Catalonia).
– 2017 – Grant of the Max Planck Institute and the University of Warsaw.
– 2017 – Grant of the Public Diplomacy Council of Catalonia.
– (As Supervisor) 2017 – present – Marie Curie – H2020-MSCA- IF-2016 – “Why do we need a Realist Constitutional Theory to Study the Politics of Constitutional Change in the Middle East?” Seal of excellence, European Commission.
– 2016 – Grant of the Islamic Legal Studies Harvard University Law School.
– 2015 – Grant of the Faculty of Law of the University of Naples.
– 2015 – Instituts d´Estudis Autonòmics (Government of Catalonia) (Barcelona): Research on a comparative analysis of the powers of sub-national entities in the appointment of Constitutional Court Justices” GEEC- PR-2015-530.
– 2014 – Grant of the European University Institute, Florence (Italy).
– 2014– Grant of the Diplocat, Public Diplomacy Council of Catalonia and the Universityof Iceland.
– 2011-14 Juan de la Cierva Fellowship, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia – Spanish Government. Three-years Research program – 100.980 € (ranked 1).
– 2011– Grant of the Univeristy Autònoma of Barcelona – Conference attendance.
– 2010 Director and coordinator of the Pluricity Research Program for the Agència Catalana de Cooperació internacional. (Catalan Agency of International Cooperation).
– 2009 Centre d’estudis sobiranistes – “internal enlargement in the EU”.
– 2007 Scholarship of the Bar association of Barcelona and the Frankfurt am Main, Bar Association.
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