Dr Mario Mendez, BA (Lond), LLM (William & Mary), BCL (Oxon), PhD (EUI)

Mendez

Lecturer in Public Law

Location: Mile End
email: mario.mendez@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7882 3958

Mario Mendez graduated with a first class degree in Law and Politics from Queen Mary, University of London and was awarded the Drapers’ Scholarship to study at the College of William and Mary in Virginia where he completed an LLM in American Legal Studies. This was followed by the BCL at the University of Oxford which he took with distinction and was awarded the Vinerian Scholarship Proxime Accessit (second place). He completed his PhD at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence.

Mario has worked for the Academy of European Law at the EUI and has been a visiting research scholar at the University of Michigan’s Law School and a trainee at the European Commission. He is a research associate at the University of Zurich’s e-Democracy centre.

He is the current survey editor and a member of the editorial committee of the journal Public Law.

His research interests lie in the fields of UK and comparative constitutional law (with a particular focus on aspects of EU law). He is currently working on a monograph for the Oxford Studies in European Law series and also collaborating with the Centre for Research on Direct Democracy in Zurich on a project on Referendums and Constitutional Change in the European Union.

Publications:

  •  The Enforcement of EU Agreements: Bolstering the effectiveness of Treaty law?’ (2010) 47(6) Common Market Law Review 1719
  • ‘Comparing Privacy Regimes: Federal Theory and the Politics of Privacy Regulation in the European Union and the United States’ (with F. Mendez) (2010) 40(4) Publius: The Journal of Federalism 617.
  • ‘Referendums and European integration: beyond the Lisbon vote’ (with F. Mendez) [2010] Public Law 223
  • ‘The Legal Effect of Community Agreements: Maximalist Treaty Enforcement and Judicial Avoidance Techniques’ (2010) 21(1) European Journal of International Law 83
  • ‘Direct Democracy in the European Union: How comparative federalism can help us understand the interplay of direct democracy and European integration’ (with F. Mendez and V. Triga) (2009) 29(1) Revista de Ciencia Política 57
  • Passenger Name Record Agreement (2007) 3(1) European Constitutional Law Review 127
  • ‘Introducing E-voting for the European Parliament Elections: the Constitutional Problems’ (with A. Auer) in Trechsel and Mendez (eds), The European Union and E-voting (Routledge, 2005).
  • ‘The impact of WTO rulings in the Community legal order’ (2004) 29 European Law Review 513.

Undergraduate teaching:

  • LAW4001 Public Law