Jenny Orlando-Salling

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Jenny Orlando-Salling is a PhD Fellow in Law at the Centre of Excellence for International Courts and Governance (iCourts), University of Copenhagen. Her current research engages critical and historical approaches to EU legal studies, with a specific focus on (post-)colonialism and constitutionalism. She holds an LLM from the University of Copenhagen, an MSc in Politics and Government in the European Union from the London School of Economics and Political Science as well as an LLB with Honours from University College London. She has previously been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Milan (Department of Legal History), Princeton University (Department of History) and the University of Cambridge (Faculty of Law).

Before joining the University of Copenhagen, Jennifer was Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Malta in Egypt as well as Nicolaidis Representative (Foreign Affairs) at the Permanent Representation of Malta to the EU during its Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2017. She has additionally worked as a trainee at the European Parliament, the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Jenny lectures undergraduate students at the Faculty of Law in Criminology and Global Challenges in International Law, and is open to supervising BA and LLM theses in a variety of subjects. 

Her PhD project is part-funded by the TESS Scholarship (Malta) for the period 2020-2024. 

Keywords: European constitutionalism, constitutionalism, comparative constitutionalism, constitutional history, critical historical approaches, coloniality, post-colonialism, decolonial approaches, core-periphery, memory and identity, rule of law; histories of the rule of law.