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, London Law Review, the European Public Private Partnership Law Review
  
• General Editor of the Kluwer European Law Collection.

Publications

• ‘EU Liability Law', Kluwer, European Law Collection, Dordrecht (2008)
  
• ‘Some reflections on the notion of State resources' in European Community State Aid Law' in 30 Fordham International Law Journal, 2007, 501
  
• ‘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, (2007)
  
• ‘Francovich, fifteen years later', 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' (2007)
  
• ‘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
  
• ‘Justifying state aids: the financing of service of general economic interests' in T. Tridimas (ed.), European Union law for the 21st century, Hart , Oxford (2004), 259
  
• ‘The Gardener and other stories: the peregrinations of cultural artefacts within the European Union', in R. Crauford-Smith (ed.), The cultural policy of the EU: law, identity and integration, OUP, Oxford (2004), 153
  
• ‘Free trade, a mountain road and the right to protest: European economic freedoms & fundamental individual rights' in European Human Rights Law Review, 2004, 51
  
• A. Biondi, P. Eeckhout & J. Flynn (eds.), The Law of EC State Aids, OUP, Oxford (2003)
  
• A. Biondi, M. Lee, M. Cecchetti & S. Grassi (eds.), Scientific Evidence and European Environmental Rule Making, Kluwer, Dordrecht (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