New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellow at iCourts - Pedro Cuesta Garcia
Pedro Cuesta García is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellow under the framework of the GEM-DIAMOND PhD fellowship, part of the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. Pedro holds a Bachelors of Laws (LLB) from the University Carlos III de Madrid, and a "European Public Law & Governance" Masters of Laws (LLM) from the European Law School of Maastricht University. His joint PhD journey starts at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome and continues at iCourts, the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence for International Courts, at the University of Copenhagen. His supervisors are Professor Giovanni Piccirilli, from Luiss University, and Professor Mikael Madsen, from the University of Copenhagen.
Academic interest
His academic interests are centered on various areas of EU law:
- the constitutional aspects of EU law; constitutional pluralism, the construction of the EU polity, the fundamental values of the EU, and the protection of fundamental rights among others;
- the Law of the Economic and Monetary Union, including the banking union, and
- the Law of the Common Commercial policy,
Thesis' topic
His Ph.D. Thesis investigates the gaps in the cooperation between the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and national courts, especially constitutional and supreme courts. In particular, the focus is on how such gaps, due to misunderstandings at times and open conflicts at others, have challenged the primacy of EU law and whether this phenomenon affects the autonomous nature of the EU legal order and the primacy of EU law. In a nutshell, his thesis analyzes what motivates the resistance of some constitutional/supreme courts to the primacy of European Union law, and more broadly the judicial activism of the CJEU.
Pedro Cuesta Garcia will be staying at iCourts from 20 August 2023 to 30 June 2024.