New visitor at iCourts - Pablo Castillo-Ortiz

Dr Pablo Castillo-Ortiz is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield (UK). He develops interdisciplinary law and politics research about constitutional courts and organs for judicial governance, and about their role in democratic systems and in processes of regional integration (with a focus on the European Union). His research has been published in leading outlets in the disciplines of law and political science (inter alia, European Constitutional Law Review, European Political Science Review, Journal of Law and Society, Comparative European Politics).

At iCourts, Pablo will be researching European far right parties and their position on the primacy of European Union law. To do so, Pablo is carrying out a comprehensive scrutiny of the election manifestos of far right parties in all European Union Member States in the last two decades. The research carried out combines a doctrinal analysis of the positions of these parties about the issue of primacy, an empirical analysis explaining under which conditions these parties resource to sceptic approaches to EU law, and a policy analysis of the implications of this phenomenon for the future of the process of European Integration.