Practice Profile

Andrea practice experience is in the area of the judicial protection of EU rights and regulation of trade. In particular, he has acted for several Italian companies in state aid and free movement of services cases.

Academic Profile

• Professor of European Union Law and Co-Director, Centre of European Law, King's College London
• Visiting professor at the College of Europe in Warsaw and at Georgetown University
• Academic Member since 2003
• Member of the International Advisory Board of European Public Law, King's College Law Journal, the European Public Private Partnership Law Review, the European State Aid Law Quarterly.
• General Editor of the Kluwer European Law Collection.

Recent Publications

• ‘When the state is the owner: the European Court of Justice Strategy', in U.Bernitz & G. Ringe,  
• ‘Economic Protectionism and EU Law, OUP, 2010,97.
• State aid control: an orthodox view', in Cambridge Yearbook of EU Law, 2010, 219.
• ‘In praise of Francovich', in M.Poiares Maduro (ed), The Past and Future of EU Law, The Classics of EU law Revisited on the 50th Anniversary of the Rome Treaty' (2010)
• ‘EU Liability Law', Kluwer, European Law Collection, Dordrecht (2009)
• ‘How to go ahead as EU Law national judge', in 14 European Public Law, 2009, 1.
• ‘Recurring Cycles in the Internal Market: some reflections on the law of free movement of services'' in A.Arnull, P.Eeckhout & T Tridimas, Continuity and Change in EU Law: essays in honour of Sir F.Jacobs, OUP, (2008)
• ‘Some reflections on the notion of State resources' in European Community State Aid Law' in 30 Fordham International Law Journal, 2007, 501
• ‘The Law of EU State Aid'' in A. Frignani & R.Pardolesi (ed.), EC Competition Law, Milan, (2006), 415
• ‘State aid law: between social objectives and public services' (with L. Rubini) in M. Dougan & E. Spaventa (eds.), Social Welfare and EU law, Hart, Oxford (2004), 79
• A. Biondi, P. Eeckhout & J. Flynn (eds.), The Law of EC State Aids, OUP, Oxford (2003)

Qualifications and Appointments

• 1996 Ph.D. in Comparative Law, University of Florence
• 1992 Master in Parliamentary and Constitutional Law, University of Florence
• 1990 Juris Doctor (Laurea), First Class (110/110), University of Florence