Vito Breda

Assoc Prof Vito Breda (PhD Edinburgh, LLM Brussels, LLB Milan) serves as Associate Professor at the School of Law and Justice, University of Southern Queensland. He holds dual academic appointments: Senior Lecturer in Law (2017-2024) and Professor in Comparative Law (Tier II, 2016 National Evaluation, Rome). His career spans 22 years of tertiary teaching and research.

• Education: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2009), Postgraduate Certificate in University Teaching (Cardiff), LLM (EALT Brussels), PhD (Edinburgh)

Research Expertise: Internationally recognized authority on federalism, decentralization, and legal transplants. His recent 2023 Elgar monograph on Constitutional Crises and Regionalism establishes a comparative framework for multinational democracies, examining stability through cooperation and human dignity protection. Major contributions include:

• 2019 Cambridge volume Legal Transplants in East Asia and Oceania
• 2018 Elgar monograph Constitutional Law and Regionalism
• 2017 Peter Lang study The Objectivity of Judicial Decisions

Research Trends: Focus on constitutional identities in liquid societies, ethno-regional conflicts, and secular-religious law interactions. Current work explores Terra Australis Incognita (2025) and Narcissism of Minor Differences (2025), advancing comparative legal analysis.

Scientific Recognition

• MacCormick Fellow (2014-15)
• Research Fellow, University of New Caledonia (2019)
• Regular invited speaker at international constitutional law events

Supervision: Currently guides PhD research on topics including Bologna Process (Brown), Judicial Objectivity (Fraser), and Behavioral Recidivism Reduction (Harris). Previously supervised Public Policy in Cross-Border Litigation (2019 completion).

Professional Affiliations: Member of IVR International Association, Commission on Legal Pluralism (IAALS), European Union Horizon Expert Panel, and several Italian legal associations. Active in UK Society of Legal Scholars and Australian Law Teachers Association.