Carlo Tovo

Professional experience

• 10/2024 - : Tenure-track Researcher in European Union Law at the Department of Sociology and Business Law of the University of Bologna;
• 01/2020-10/2024: Legal Secretary (référendaire) at the Court of Justice of the European Union, in the chambers of Judge L.S. Rossi;
• 10/2018-12/2019: Legal Administrator (administrateur juriste) at the Court of Justice of the European Union, in the chambers of Judge L.S. Rossi;
• 10/2015-09/2018: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in European Union Law, at the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna;
• 10/2015-10/2023: Adjunct Professor at the Université Catholique de Lille, China-EU School of Law (CESL), LUISS Guido Carli University, and the University of Bologna;
• 01/2012-05/2015: PhD Candidate in European Law and Public Law at the University of Bologna and the University of Strasbourg;
• 09/2010-06/2014: Local parliamentary assistant to a Member of the European Parliament.

Education

• 05/2021: National scientific qualification as Associate professor of EU law;
• 05/2015: PhD in European Law and Public Law at the University of Bologna and the University of Strasbourg (co-tutorship agreement);
• 07/2012: Academy of European Law at the European University Institute;
• 12/2011: Master's Degree in Law (110/110 cum laude) at the University of Bologna;
• 08/2009-01/2010: Erasmus at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands).

Publications

• monograph on 'The decentralized agencies of the European Union' (Naples: Editoriale Scientifica, 2016);
• articles in international (Common Market Law Review, European Law Review, Review of European Administrative Law) and national (Il Diritto dell'Unione europea, Federalismi.it, Eurojus, Rivista del contenzioso europeo, ...) journals;
• book chapters in international (OUP, Brill, Edward Elgar) and national (Editoriale scientifica, Treccani) series;
• study for the European Parliament on 'Mapping the funding gaps in the market surveillance and customs enforcement'.

Teaching

• a.y. 2026/2027: EU Judicial Protection (EN, 6 ECTS), European Law Moot Court Competition Seminar (EN, 3 ECTS);
• a.y. 2025/2026: Modules in the EU Internal market law (EN, 7 ECTS) and European Union law (IT, 9 ECTS) courses, European Law Moot Court Seminar (EN, 3 ECTS); 
• a.y. 2024/2025: EU Constitutional Law (EN, 6 ECTS);
• a.yy. 2015/2016 - 2023/2024: Modules on EU labour law (IT), effects of EU law in national legal orders (IT) and Internal market law (EN).

Research

• Staff member of Jean Monnet projects: JM Module "TOPs - Towards Ten Years of the European Pillar of Social Rights" (2025-2028), JM Network "LAwTTIP – Legal Ambiguities withstanding TTIP" (2016-2018), JM Project "YES! Young Europeans at School" (2014-2017);
  
• Research projects on "The distinction between shared and supporting EU competences: Member States’ and EU institutions’ powers" (2017-2018) and "The independence of the EU Agencies and the principle of equality of Member States before the Treaties" (2015-2017);
• Visiting researcher at the Universities of Strasbourg (2014), Maastricht (2015) and Paris-Panthéon-Assas (2018).

Conferences and seminars

• Numerous seminars and conference contributions, as a speaker or discussant, at Italian (Universities of Bologna, LUISS, Milan, Messina, Rome La Sapienza, Ferrara and Tuscia; Higher School for the Judiciary) and international (Universities of Oslo, Paris-Panthéon-Assas, Maastricht, Rennes, Tours, Ghent, Luxembourg and Hamburg; EIPA; EUI) universities and research institutions.

Affiliations

• 04/2015 - : member of the Italian Society of International Law and European Union Law - SIDI;
• 09/2019 - : member of the Italian Association of European Union Law Scholars - AISDUE;
• 09/2025 - : member of the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Social Rights of the University of Bologna - CRIDS.

Awards

• 'Riccardo Monaco' award (2016) for the best doctoral thesis on the legal aspects of European integration, awarded by the Italian Society of International Law and EU Law (SIDI).