Dr. Elisenda Casanas Adam

Biography

Elisenda Casanas Adam is a Senior Lecturer at the Edinburgh Law School, specializing in Public Law and Human Rights. She currently serves as the Director of the Centre for Constitutional Law and heads the subject area of Public Law. Her main research interests include comparative analysis in public law, particularly focusing on plurinational constitutionalism, referendums on self-determination, devolution, federalism, judicial review, and the protection of human rights in multi-level systems. She has a special interest in public law as it relates to Scotland and the United Kingdom, as well as Catalonia in Spain. Before joining the Law School in 2011, she was a Lecturer in Constitutional Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona from 2009 to 2011 and at the University of Girona from 2008 to 2009. She holds degrees from the Autonomous University of Barcelona where she earned her Spanish law degree and LLM, and from the European University Institute in Florence where she completed her PhD focusing on 'Judicial Federalism from a Comparative Perspective: Spain, United States and United Kingdom'. Additionally, she has been a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.

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