Josep Maria CASTELLÀ ANDREU
Full Professor of Constitutional Law (2019), University of Barcelona.
Education
PhD. in Law, with Extraordinary Doctoral Award and “European Doctor” mention, University of Barcelona (1996).
Bachelor of Law (Licenciatura en Derecho), University of Barcelona (1990).
Teaching activities
Courses on Spanish Constitutional Law (Law degree), Constitutional Theory (Political Sciences degree), and Constitutional Comparative law (Law degree).
Main research fields
Democracy, representation and participatory rights; Spanish decentralization and Comparative Federalism and Regionalism; Constitutional democracy and populism.
Publications (selection)
- “The reception in Spain of the Reference of the Supreme Court of Canada on the Secession of Quebec“, in DELLEDONNE, G. & MARTINICO, G. (eds.), The Canadian Contribution to a Comparative Law of Secession, Palgrave MacMillan, 2019
- “Constitution and Referendum on Secession in Catalonia”, in LÓPEZ BASAGUREN, A. & ESCAJEDO, L. (eds.), Claims for Secession and Federalism, Springer, 2019
- Estado autonómico: pluralismo e integración constitucional, Marcial Pons, Madrid, 2018.
- “El Senado ante el debate de su reforma ¿continuidad, reforma o ruptura del modelo constitucional vigente?“, Revista General de Derecho Constitucional, núm. 24, 2017
- “El referèndum sobre el Brexit: una historia inacabada”, Revista de Derecho Político, núm. 97, 2016
- “Tribunal Constitucional y proceso secesionista catalán: respuestas jurídico-constitucionales a un conflicto político-constitucional”, Teoría y Realidad Constitucional, núm. 37, 2016
- “El referéndum en la Constitución, ¿es necesario un replanteamiento constitucional de la institución?”, in CASCAJO, J.L. y MARTÍN DE LA VEGA, A. (coords.): Participación, representación y democracia, XII Congreso de ACE, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2016
Edition of books (selection)
- Derecho Constitucional Básico, Huygens, Barcelona, 5 ed. 2019
- With TUDELA, J., EXPÓSITO, E. and KÖLLING, M., Libro blanco sobre la calidad democrática, Macial Pons, Barcelona, 2018.
- Parlamento, ciudadanos y entes territoriales ante la reforma constitucional ¿quién y cómo participa?, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2018
- With PAJNO, S., RIVOSECCHI, G and VERDE, G., Autonomie territoriali, riforma del bicameralismo e raccordi intergovernativi, Ed. Scientifica, Napoli, 2018
Visiting scholar at foreign universities
- Università di Pisa (Italy);
- Université de Montréal and McGill University (Canada);
- UNAM (Mexico);
- Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium);
- Senshu University (Japan);
- Boston College (USA);
- Universidad de Chile and Universidad Católica de Chile;
- Oxford University
Other relevant activities
- Member of the Venice Commission (since 2014).
- Director of the Group of Studies on Democracy and Constitutionalism (GEDECO) (since 2014).
- Director of the Revista Catalana de Dret Públic (2012-16).
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Coucil of the Institute for Comparative Federalism, EURAC, Bolzano (Italy) (since 2017)
- Member of the Advisory Council of the Global Network on Electoral Justice (since 2018).