Dr Vito Breda

Fields of Research (FoR)

• Comparative Law ( 180106 )
  

• Human Rights Law ( 180114 )
  

• International Trade Law ( 180117 )
  

Research interests
Dr Vito Breda is the research leader of the International and Comparative Law Group at the University of Southern Queensland and Professor in Comparative Law (Tier II, 12/E2, National Evaluation 2016, Rome).
In 2020 Vito co-edited with Prof Frau, Constitutional Negotiations (Editoriale Scientifica) in English and Italian. The List of contributors includes Anthony Gray and Ben Gussen
Vito is also the sole editor of Legal Transplants in East Asia and Oceania published by Cambridge University Press (2019)
He is the sole author of Constitutional Law and Regionalism (Edward Elgar, 2018) . The Series editors are: Rosalind Dixon (University of New South Wales) Susan Rose-Ackerman (Yale University) and Mark Tushnet (Harvard University), The Objectivity of Judicial Decisions (Peter Lang 2017 2 ed) and the co-editor of Diverse Narratives of Legal Objectivity (2016).



IMPACT SAMPLE:
2019 Iconnect Review of Legal Transplants in East Asia and Oceania published Icon-s (2019)
2017 A. J. BULLIER review of Breda V. The Objectivity of Judicial Decisions: A Comparative Analysis of Nine Jurisdictions, Peter ,Lang, 2017, Revue de droit international et de droit comparé, 2017, n° 3
2017 - Breda V (2006) : cited by European Parliament Committee on Culture and Education in, European Identity: Study, by European Parliament -
2017 - Breda V (2006) : cited by the European Parliament and European University Institute in, Building Parliament: 50 Years of European Parliament History?: 1958-2008 (Publications Office of the European Union, 2009) 1958–2008.
2014 - Breda V (2013): cited in Government of Catalonia, 6th Report, Paths for Catalonia’s Integration in the European Union
2009 - Breda V (2004) : cited in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Patriotism At: https://plato.stanford.edu/index.html

Ph.D Students:
Fraser E. The Objectivity of Australian Judicial Decisions,
Harris S. Managing Behaviour from Classroom to Courtroom: reducing recidivism within and beyond learning environments, through a comparative analysis of SWPBS in Australia and Scandinavia.

Professional memberships
IVR International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
FHEA – Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK)
SLS - Member of the Society of Legal Scholars (UK)
Member of the Australian Law Teachers Association

Industry affiliations
Fellow at the United Kingdom Higher Education Academy

Currently teaching courses/programs
Ph.D Students (see Research Career)

Examined Qualifications

• 2009: Fellow at the UK Higher Education Academy,
• 2007: Postgraduate Certificate in University Teaching - Level 6 and 7 - Higher Education Funding Council for Wales.

Teaching Responsibilities by Institutions

SCHOOL OF LAW AND JUSTICE,
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND

Postgraduate Courses:
• Course Leader: EU Law
• Course Leader: Advanced Jurisprudence (Advanced Theories of Law)

Undergraduate

• Course Leader: Theories of Law
• Course Leader: Comparative Law

SCHOOL OF LAW, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
2005- 2013:
Postgraduate:
• Module leader for European Public Law
Undergraduate
• Course Leader: Jurisprudence,
• Dissertation Supervisor: Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence,
THE LAW SCHOOL, THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

2001- 2004:
Undergraduate
2001- 2004: Tutor in Jurisprudence. The Law School, the University of Edinburgh.

Teaching experience(Tertiary)
18 Years

Research most recent
Just Accepted:

01/21 Revisiting the Sharia Law in Italy, in A Possamai, J Richardson, B Turner (Eds.) The Sociology of Shari’a: Case Studies from around the World , Springer, Springer, New York, (2022)
12 /20 Breda V Gleeson K, The Governor General in Australia and Gender Equality, Royal Studies Journal, Winchester, UK
10/20 Breda V Frau M, Introduction, M Frau V Breda eds, La Contrattazione Costituzionale Dell'autonomia Territoriale, Editoriale Scietifica, 2020 ISBN 9788893918571



Recent books:
1. M Frau v Breda eds, La Contrattazione Costituzionale Dell'autonomia Territoriale, Editoriale Scietifica, 2020 ISBN 9788893918571
2. Breda (eds) Legal Transplants in East Asia and Oceania, Cambridge University Press, 2019 ISBN:9781108475297
Recommend it to your librarian:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Legal-Transplants-East-Asia-Oceania/dp/1108475299
3. Constitutional Law and Regionalism, Edward Elgar, Northampton, US, 2018 (Cheltenham, UK) ISBN: 978178347 0129
4. The Objectivity of Judicial Decisions: A Comparative Analysis of Nine Jurisdictions, Peter Lang, 2017,ISBN:3631675909
Recommend it to your librarian: https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/19458?format=EPDF

Latest Articles

1.Samoa: Constitutional Governance and Customary Law , the Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific, 25/ 2019
2. Mihailovic A Breda, V New Caledonia, The Archipelago that does not Want to be Freed, the Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific, 26/ 2019
3.Breda V Gleeson K, The Governor General in Australia and Gender Equality, Royal Studies Journal, Winchester, UK 12/2020

Latest Chapters
1. Revisiting the Sharia Law in Italy Possamai A, Richardson J, TurnerB (Eds.) The Sociology of Shari’a: Case Studies from around the World , Springer, (2022)
2. Breda V, Wolf O'Rourke E, Northern Ireland and South Tyrol: Constitutional Boundaries in Consociational Democracies, M Frau v Breda eds, La Contrattazione Costituzionale Dell'autonomia Territoriale, Editoriale Scietifica, 2020 ISBN 9788893918571
3. Breda V Frau M , Balancing Competing Dignity Claims: Insights from the UK and Italy, A Menuge B Bussey eds, The Conceptual Foundations of Human Dignity, Anthem Press, 2020




BLOGS:
1. 2019 The New Caledonia 2018 Referendum: Crisis in Consociative Democracies Redux, British Association of Comparative Law blog 2019
https://british-association-comparative-law.org/2019/06/03/vito-breda-the-new-caledonia-2018-referendum-crisis-in-consociative-democracies-redux/

2. 2019 Catalonian Independence: Unbounding a Blood and Belonging Constitutional System, British Association of Comparative Law blog 2019
https://british-association-comparative-law.org/2019/01/27/catalonian-independence-unbounding-a-blood-and-belonging-constitutional-system/

3. 2018 The Spain-Catalonia crisis: A constitutional re-flexion, Edward Elgar blog 2018
https://elgar.blog/2018/02/22/the-spain-catalonia-crisis-a-constitutional-reflexion/

Research most notable
BOOKS
1.M Frau v Breda eds, La Contrattazione Costituzionale Dell'autonomia Territoriale, Editoriale Scietifica, 2020 ISBN 9788893918571
2.Constitutional Law and Regionalism, Edward Elgar, Northampton, US, 2018 ,
3. Breda (eds) Legal Transplants in East Asia and Oceania, Cambridge University Press, 2019
4. The Objectivity of Judicial Decisions: A Comparative Analysis of Nine Jurisdictions, Peter Lang, 2017,
5. Breda V., Rodack L. (eds), Diverse Narratives of Legal Objectivity, Peter Lang, Frankfurt , 2016, 252 pp.,
ARTICLES
5. Samoa: Constitutional Governance and Customary Law , the Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific, 25/ 2019
6. Mihailovic A Breda V New Caledonia, The Archipelago that does not Want to be Freed, the Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific, 26/ 2019
7. The Grammar of Bias: Judicial Impartiality in European Legal Systems, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 4/2016
8. The Australian Regime of Offshore Detention: A Constitutional Reflection , Quaderni Costituzionali, 4/2016
9. Breda V., Vricella. M., English Pragmatism and Italian Virtue: A Comparative Analysis of the Regime of Illegally Obtained Evidence in Civil Law Proceedings between Italy and England, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, 3/21 428-444 , 2014,
10 . How to Reverse the Italian Brain Drain: A Masterclass from Australia. International Migration , (4), 64- 77, 2014,
11. La Devolution de Escocia y el Referendum de 2014: ¿Cuáles Son las Repercusiones Potenciales en España?Teoría y Realidad Constitucional, 31, 69-88, 2013,
12. A European Constitution in a Multinational Europe or a Multinational Constitution for Europe? European Law Journal 1(2), 330-344, 2006,
13. The Incoherence of the Patriotic State. Res Publica 3, 247– 265, 2004,
14. Breda V. & Calvanse E. Immigration and criminality in Milan between 1991-1996: is the increase real? Italian Journal of Criminology ( formerly the Rassegna Italiana di Criminologia), 3, 32-42, 2005.
CHAPTERS
15. Introduction Breda V (eds) Legal Transplants in East Asia and Oceania, Cambridge University Press, 2019
16 .Conclusion Breda V (eds) Legal Transplants in East Asia and Oceania, Cambridge University Press, 2019
17. Over the Secular Ridge of Human Wants: The constitutional legitimacy of secular-state funding of chaplaincy programmes in Australia, A. Menuge (ed.), Religious Liberty and the Law: Theistic and Non-Theistic Perspectives, Routledge, 2018
18. Indigenous Australians and the Constitutional Reform: Learning from a Very British Experience, in Patrick J. and Yung S. (eds). Constitutional Recognition of the First Australians: Theories and Comparative Perspectives, Federation Press, 2016
19. The Concept of Objectivity in the UK Supreme Court through a Comparative Looking Glass, in Breda V., Rodack L. (eds), Diverse Narratives of Legal Objectivity, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 172-185, 2016,
20. Breda V., Rodack L., Introduction, in Breda V., Rodack L. (eds), Diverse Narratives of Legal Objectivity, Peter Lang, Oxford – Frankfurt, 1-9, 2016,
21. Constitutional Patriotism and the Scottish Referendum, in Hulas M. and Fel S. (Eds), Intricacies of Patriotism: towards a complexity of patriotic allegiance. Peter Lang, Oxford, 161-187, 2015,
22. Lingering with Intent: The UK Constitutional Review, in Jovanovich M. (eds) Constitutional Review and Democracy, Eleven International Publishing, the Hague, 266-272, 2015,
23. Sharia Law in Catholic Italy: A Non-Agnostic Model of Accommodation, A. Possamai, J Richardson, B Turner (eds), The Sociology of Shari'a: Case Studies from around the World, Springer, New York, 119 -137, 2015,
24. An Odd Partnership: Identity-Based Constitutional Claims, In K. Rubinstein, M. Nollan, F. Jenkins (ed.) Modern Democracy, Alliance and Identity in a Globalised World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 52 -77, 2014,

Publications in ePrints

Breda, Vito (2020) Concluding remarks [to La contrattazione costituzionale dei livelli di autonomia: modelli per una comparazione]. In: La contrattazione costituzionale dei livelli di autonomia: modelli per una comparazione. Ricerche giuridiche (205). Editoriale Scientifica, Naples, Italy, pp. 205-208. ISBN 978-88-9391-857-2

Breda, Vito and Frau, Matteo (2020) La contrattazione costituzionale dei livelli di autonomia: modelli per una comparazione. Editoriale Scientifica, Naples, italy. ISBN 978-88-9391-857-2

Breda, Vito and Wolfe O'Rourke, Erin (2020) Northern Ireland and South Tyrol: constitutional boundaries in consociational democracies. In: La contrattazione costituzionale dei livelli di autonomia: modelli per una comparazione. Ricerche giuridiche (205). Editoriale Scientifica, Naples, Italy, pp. 25-52.

Breda, Vito and Frau, Matteo (2020) Preface [to La contrattazione costituzionale dei livelli di autonomia: modelli per una comparazione]. In: La contrattazione costituzionale dei livelli di autonomia: modelli per una comparazione. Ricerche giuridiche (205). Editoriale Scientifica, Naples, Italy, pp. 7-9.

Gleeson, Kate and Breda, Vito (2020) The Governor General in Australia and gender equality. Royal Studies Journal, 7 (2). pp. 10-30.

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Approved research supervisor in the area of:

• Comparative Law ( 180106 )
  

• Human Rights Law ( 180114 )
  

• International Trade Law ( 180117 )
  

Research topics

• The Grammar of Judicial Bias: A comparative analysis of the lexical qualification of Judicial Impartiality in the Australian Judicial Systems .