Dr Lorenzo Zucca
Contact details
Email: lorenzo.zucca@kcl.ac.uk
Room: SW2.28
Biography
Lorenzo is Reader in Jurisprudence. He holds the degrees of Maitrise (Paris 2 Assas), DEA (Paris 1 Sorbonne), Mjur (Oxford) and PhD (EUI, Florence).
Research
Lorenzo's special interests are in jurisprudence, constitutional theory, EU constitutional law and human rights. He is the author of Constitutional Dilemmas- Conflicts of Fundamental Legal Rights in Europe and the USA (OUP, 2007) and articles on European human rights law and theory. He is currently working on a book on the relation between law and religion in the European public sphere, which will be published by OUP under the title A Secular Europe: Law and Religion in the European Constitutional Landscape, OUP 2012. This is a study of one of the most pressing legal social and political problems in Europe and includes issues such as the ECHR protection of religious freedom, EU policies against islamic terrorism, EU enlargement to Turkey and a wider debate on European identity.
Publications
Books
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Lorenzo Zucca, A Secular Europe- Law and Religion in the European Constitutional Landscape, OUP, forthcoming 2012
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(ed. with Camil Ungureanu) Law, State and Religion in the New Europe, CUP 2012
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Lorenzo Zucca, Silvina Alvarez, Guillermo Lariguet, David Martinez Zorrilla,
Dilemas constitucionales. Un debate sobre sus aspectos jurídicos y morales, Marcial Pons, 2011
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Constitutional Dilemmas- Conflicts of Fundamental Legal Rights in Europe and the USA (OUP, 2007)
Articles
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'Lautsi: A commentary of the Grand Chamber decision', International Journal of Constitutional Law, forthcoming 2012
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'Monism and Fundamental Rights' in Pavlos Elefteriadis & Julie Dickson, Philosophy of EU Law, OUP, forthcoming 2012
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Shedding Light on the Conspiracy: A Reply to 'The Sacred Conspiracy: Religion, Nationalism and the Crisis of Internationalism', Leiden Journal of International Law, 25/1, pp. 55-66
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Law vs. Religion, in Lorenzo Zucca and Camil Ungureanu (eds), Law, State and Religion in the New Europe, CUP 2012
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'The Classroom as a Tolerance Lab' in Hunter Henin (ed.), Law, Religious Freedoms and Education in Europe, Ashgate, 2011
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'Tolerance or Toleration: how to deal with religious conflicts in Europe', in Macks del Mar (ed.), New Waves in Philosophy of Law, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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The Crisis of the Secular State, International Journal of Constitutional Law (I.CON), 2009 (abstract)
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The Place of Religion in Constitutional Goods, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Volume 22, Number 1, January 2009, 205
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"Conflicts of Fundamental Rights as Constitutional Dilemmas" (July 2, 2008). CONFLICTS BETWEEN FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, Eva Brems, ed., Antwerp/Oxford/Portland, 2008
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"Too Good to be True," Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 20, pp.257-268, 2007
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"The Tragedy of Ms Evans: Conflicts and Incommensurability of Rights," European Constitutional Law Review (2006), 2: 424-442
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"Does the European Constitution need Christian values," Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 24 pp. 739-748, 2004
PhD students & topics
Teaching
Undergraduate
Jurisprudence & Legal Theory
Graduate
European Constitutional Law 2: European Human Rights