Research Interests

European law
Judicial protection of EU rights
Trade regulation

Subjects Taught

European Union Law I (Spring)

Brief Bio

Andrea Biondi is Professor of European Union Law and the Co-Director of the Centre for European Law at King’s College London. He is a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Warsaw and at Georgetown University. He is a member of the Bar of Florence as well as being an Academic Member of Francis Taylor Buildings Chambers in London. Professor Biondi is on the International Advisory Board of European Public Law, King’s College Law Journal, London Law Review, the European Public Private Partnership Law Review and he is the General Editor of the Kluwer European Law Collection.

Andrea’s research interest is European Union law, with particular emphasis on the judicial protection of EU rights and regulation of trade. He has written extensively on the notion of effective judicial protection and on the pros and cons of harmonisation of procedural rules at the European Level. As regards trade law, he is particularly interested in the free movement of goods and services. His interest in EC State aid law focuses mainly on the question of how an appropriate balance can be struck between trade liberalization and the role of the State in the economy.

Representative Publications

Books

1. Biondi, A., Eeckhout, P., & Flynn, J., (eds.), The Law of EC State Aids, (2003) OUP, Oxford

Other

2. Biondi, A., Recurring Cycles in the Internal Market: some reflections on the law of free movement of services, in Arnull, A., Eeckhout, P., and Tridimas, T., Continuity and Change in EU Law: essays in honor of Sir F.Jacobs, (2007), OUP, Oxford

3. Biondi, A., The notion of State resources in European Community State Aid Law, 30 Fordham International Law Journal, (2007), 501.

4. Biondi, A., The Law of EU State Aid, in Frignani, A., and Pardolesi, R., (eds.), EC Competition Law, Milan (2006)

5. Biondi, A., The rule of reason and national procedural limitations: is it really reasonable?, in Schrauwen, A., (ed.), Rule of Reason: Rethinking another classic EC legal doctrine, Europa Law Publishing, Amsterdam (2005)

6. Biondi, A., Judges in the dock: note on Commission v Italy (2004) Il Diritto dell’Unione Europea 619

7. Biondi, A. and Rubini, L., State aid law: between social objectives and public services, in M. Dougan, M, and Spaventa, E., (eds.), Social Welfare and EU law, Hart, Oxford (2004)

8. Biondi, A., Free trade, a mountain road and the right to protest: European economic freedoms & fundamental individual rights (2004) European Human Rights Law Review 51-61