Andrea Biondi

Visiting professor, European Interdisciplinary Studies Department (Natolin (Warsaw) Campus)

Dr Biondi is Reader in Law and Co-Director of the Centre of European Law at King's College, London; Chair of European Union Law, King’s College, London; and a visiting professor at Georgetown University. He is also an academic member of 2 Harcourt Buildings chambers in London.

Dr Biondi is the General Editor of the Kluwer European Law Library, and a Member of the Editorial Committee of European Public Law and King's Law Journal. His research interest is European Union law, with particular emphasis on the judicial protection of EU rights and regulation of trade.

He has written extensively on the notion of effective judicial protection and on the for and against of harmonization of procedural rules at the European Level. On trade law, he is particularly interested in the free movement of goods and services and on EC state aid law and generally on the question on how an appropriate balance can be struck between trade liberalization and the role of the State in the economy. Recent publications include "The Law of EU State Aid'' in A. Frignani & R.Pardolesi (ed.), EC Competition Law, Milan, (2005), "The rule of reason and national procedural limitations: is it really reasonable?" in A. Schrauwen (ed.), Rule of Reason: Rethinking another classic EC legal doctrine, Europa Law Publishing, Amsterdam (2005), "The Berlusconi Judgment", in 43 Common Market Law Review 2006, 553.