My research interests develop along three (often overlapping) strands:
- Minority rights and diversity governance: constitutional design for divided societies; territorial and non-territorial autonomy; asymmetric federalism; federalism and legal pluralism.
- AI and international humanitarian law: dual-use technologies and fundamental rights; autonomous weapons systems and the law of armed conflict; AI and peacebuilding; digital colonialism.
- Comparative research methodologies: decolonial comparative law; empirical legal studies.
In my doctoral thesis, I studied the legal factors explaining a low, medium, or high degree of constitutional asymmetries in divided multi-tiered systems through a Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) on 16 case studies. In my postdoc project, “Decision-Making in the Age of Emergencies,” I explore the use of advanced technologies in emergencies (i.e., AI and drones), specifically during armed conflicts and humanitarian missions.
