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). He is member of the Berkeley Comparative Disability Rights Group and of the Berkeley Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law Study Group lead by Prof Oppenheimer.
Previously he was MacCormick Fellow at the Law School of the University of Edinburgh, Visiting Fellow at the Center for European Studies at the A.N.U. and Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University. Dr Breda worked as researcher for the Scottish Parliament. Since 2010 he has been a fellow at the UK Higher Education Academy.
Short essays and reviews:
BREDA V Samoa: Constitutional Governance and Customary Law , the Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific, 25/ 2019
Mihailovic A Breda V New Caledonia, The Archipelago that does not Want to be Freed, the Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific, 26/ 2019
BREDA V (2016). The Grammar of Bias: Judicial Impartiality in European Legal Systems. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW, vol. 1, pp 245–260 ISSN: 0952-8059, doi: 10.1007/s11196-016-9489-2
BREDA V (2016). The Australian offshore detention regime: a constitutional reflection. QUADERNI COSTITUZIONALI, vol. 36, p. 813-816, ISSN: 0392-6664
BREDA V VRICELLA M (2014). 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, vol. 21, p. 428-443, ISSN: 1023-263X
BREDA V (2014). How to Reverse the Italian Brain Drain: A Master Class from Australia. INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION, vol. 52, p. 64-77, ISSN: 1468-2435, doi: 10.1111/imig.12142
BREDA V (2013). La devolution de Escocia y el referéndum de 2014: cuáles son las repercusiones potenciales en España?. TEORÍA Y REALIDAD CONSTITUCIONAL, p. 69-88, ISSN: 2174-8950
BREDA V (2011). The odd case of the legal foundation module: reporting on student perceptions of e-learning at Cardiff Law School. JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LAW AND LEGAL EDUCATION, vol. 8, p. 59-84, ISSN: 1476-0401
BREDA V (2006). A European Constitution in a Multinational Europe or a Multinational Constitution for Europe?. EUROPEAN LAW JOURNAL, vol. 12, p. 330-344, ISSN: 1468-0386, doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0386.2006.00320.x4
BREDA V (2004). The Incoherence of the Patriotic State: A Critique of Constitutional Patriotism. RES PUBLICA, vol. 10, p. 247-265, ISSN: 1356-4765, doi: 10.1007/s11158-004-0828-x
BREDA V (1998). La delittuosità degli immigrati nel Comune di Milano (1991- 1996): è vero aumento?. RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI CRIMINOLOGIA, vol. 3-4, p. 517-528, ISSN: 1121-1717
Book chapters
BREDA V Constitutional Patriotism, in IVR Encyclopaedia of Jurisprudence, Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law, M.N.S. Sellers and S. Kirste. Springer, Dordrecht, 2017, pp. 247–265 doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_221-1
BREDA V 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, 2017 pp. 159-174. ISBN: 9781138244474
BREDA V Indigenous Australians and the Constitutional Reform: Learning from a Very British Experience, in Jennifer Nielsen, Patrick J. and Yung S. (eds). Constitutional Recognition of the First Australians: Theories and Comparative Perspectives, Federation Press, 2016 ISBN 9781760020781
BREDA V 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, Oxford – Frankfurt, 172-185, 2016, ISBN-13: 978-3631653432
BREDA V., Rodack L., Introduction, in Breda V., Rodack L. (eds), Diverse Narratives of Legal Objectivity, Peter Lang, Oxford – Frankfurt, 1-9, 2016, ISBN-13: 978-3631653432
BREDA V 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, ISBN-10: 3631666209
BREDA V Lingering with Intent: The UK Constitutional Review, in Jovanovich M. (eds) Constitutional Review and Democracy, Eleven International Publishing, the Hague, pp. 266-272, 2015, ISBN: 978-94-6236-512-4
BREDA V 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, pp. 119 -137, 2015, 978-3-319-09604-9, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-09605-6_8
BREDA V 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, pp. 52 -77, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-107-07433-0, doi: 10.1017/cbo9781139696654.006
BREDA V Balancing Secularism with Religious Freedom: in Lautsi v Italy the European Court of Human Rights Evolved, Manogue A. (eds), Legitimizing Human Rights, Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 127-143, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-4094-5002-3
BREDA V Constitutional Identities in a Liquid Society, Priban J. (ed.), Liquid Society and Its Law, Farham, Ashgate, pp. 153-173, 2007. ISBN: 9780754670728