Local Governance in Multi-Layered Systems A Comparative Legal Study in the Federal-Local Connection

Prof. Matteo Nicolini , PhD, is Associate Professor of Public Comparative Law, Department of Law, University of Verona (Italy), where he teaches Comparative Constitutional Traditions and Global Comparative Law. He is also Visiting Lecturer at the Newcastle University Law School (UK), and External Partner of the Centre for the Study of Law in Theory and Practice (LTAP), Liverpool John Moores University (UK).

Prof. Alice Valdesalici , PhD, is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Comparative Federalism of Eurac Research. She was a visiting scholar at the Instituts d’Estudis Autonòmics in Barcelona and at the Deutsche Forschungsinstitut für öffentliche Verwaltung Speyer. She was awarded the ‘Ronald Watts Young Researcher Award 2016’, by the International Association of Centres for Federal Studies (IACFS), and the ‘Award for Federal and Regional studies 2016’, by the Austrian Landtagspräsidentenkonferenz and the Institute for Federalism (IFÖ - Innsbruck).