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Dr. des. Osvaldo Saldías
Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe"
Post-doctoral Fellow
E-Mail: osaldias@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Short CV
- PhD, Freie Universität Berlin “Supranational Courts as Agents of Regional Integration”
- Visiting Scholar, American Bar Foundation, October 2008-March 2009
- Visiting Scholar, Northwestern, University, Department of Political Science, WCAS Fall-Winter 2008-2009
- Research Fellow, Humboldt University of Berlin, DFG-Research Training Group “Multi Level Constitutionalism”, Faculty of Law, 2006–2009
- Co-coordinator, Iberoamerikanisches Kolloquium Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg (ad honorem), Fall-Winter 2006
- Lecturer, Universidad Mayor de Chile, Faculty of Economics, 2004–2005
- Attorney at Law, admitted by the Chilean Supreme Court in April 2004.
Main Fields of Interest
- European Integration
- Comparative Regionalism
- Law & Politics
- Comparative Judicial Politics
KFG Research Project
“Transplanting Ideas Through Law? The Action of Trans-Regional Networks in Legal Transplants”
Publications
Legal Culture “Light”. An Alternative Approach to Legal Culture through Professional Networks, Journal of Comparative Law 5 (2) (forthcoming).
The Diffusion of Fundamental Rights and Japan’s Quest for Modernity. The case of the German Dogmatic. With Gabrielle Plickert (Harvard), (forthcoming).
¿Refugiándose en redes epistémicas? El Tribunal de la Comunidad Andina y la independencia judicial. In: Saiz, A./Torres, A. (eds.): Tribunales en Organizaciones Supranacionales de Integración, Thomson Reuters Aranzadi, Bilbao. (forthcoming).
Transplanting the European Court of Justice. The Experience of the Andean Tribunal of Justice, co-authored with Karen Alter/Laurence Helfer. In: Oñati Socio-Legal Series (forthcoming).
Networks, Courts and Regional Integration. Explaining the Establishment of the Andean Court of Justice. In: KFG Working Paper Series 20, November 2010, Freie Universität Berlin.
2010 Bringing the Think Tanks into the Court Room: Professional Networks in the Andean Community. KFG-Working Paper, Freie Universität Berlin (Forthcoming).
2010 Book Review on Markus Höreth’s “Die Selbstautorisierung des Agenten”, European Law Journal 16: 4 (July)
2009 Reassessing Spillover in Regional Integration: a Comparative Perspective, in Pernice, Engelhard, Krieg, Ley & Saldías (eds.) Europa jenseits seiner Grenzen, Politologische, historische und juristische Perspektiven, Series Europäisches Verfassungsrecht, NOMOS Baden-Baden
2009 Einleitung zum Band Europa jenseits seiner Grenzen, Politologische, historische und juristische Perspektiven, NOMOS Baden-Baden (co-authored with Isabel Ley)
2008 Comparative Community Law: Latin American Scholarship on Regional Integration and the Peril of Legal Functionalism. UCLA Pacific BasinLawJournal (26:1).
2007 Supranational Courts as Engines of Disintegration. Berliner Arbeitspapiere zur Europäischen Integration (5). Freie Universität Berlin
2007 50 años del Tratado de Roma. Comunidad de Derecho, Constitucionalismo Multi-nivel o Derecho de la Integración? In Europa 2007-2013”. European Community Studies Association ECSA-Chile (eds.). Santiago. (in Press)
2006 El Contrato de Compraventa Internacional en el Comercio Chile-Unión Europea: Marco Jurídico y Principios de Derecho Europeo de los Contratos. Editorial Metropolitana; Santiago. (Book)