I am a legal theorist working at the intersection of jurisprudence, public law, and EU law. I am currently a Teaching Fellow at Swansea University, teaching Public Law, Contract Law, and Law, Professionalism and Ethics, and am awaiting my defence for a PhD in Law at the European University Institute, in which I explored what it means for law to exist, endure, and potentially cease to exist. During my doctoral studies, I also spent a visiting research period at the University of Edinburgh.

My interest in the conditions necessary for law's existence - and how 'existence' itself could be conceptualised - emerged from the rule of law crisis in the European Union. As national institutions increasingly challenged the primacy of EU law, scholars and policymakers began warning that the EU polity and its legal order faced an existential threat. My doctoral research asks whether such developments can meaningfully be described as existential threats and, if so, in what sense.

More broadly, my work explores the phenomenon of the demise of law. I am interested in how different theories of law explain legal continuity, legal identity, and legal failure. A central theme of my research is that jurisprudence offers competing accounts of what law is and how it functions. As a result, the same constitutional or institutional development may appear insignificant from one theoretical perspective and existentially threatening from another. Understanding these disagreements is, I argue, essential if we are to make sense of claims about the survival, breakdown, or transformation of legal orders. My current research seeks to develop a broader theoretical account of legal demise by examining whether law can fail in different ways, how legal systems lose their identity, and whether the conditions for the demise of law differ across municipal, supranational, and transnational legal orders.

Alongside my research, I have taught constitutional law and theory, EU law, and legal research and methodology. I am an editor of the European Journal of Legal Studies and a former coordinator of the Constitutionalism and Politics Working Group at the European University Institute.

I also initiated and coordinate an international research network on the demise of law, bringing together scholars from different theoretical and disciplinary perspectives through workshops and conference panels, including at the World Congress of Constitutional Law and the IVR World Congress.

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