The University of Insubria

		Maria Cristina Reale

	Contact data	Associate Professor Department of Roman Law, History and Philosophy of Law International Via Sant'Abbondio 9 - 22100 Como - Italy E-mail: cristina.reale@uninsubria.it
	Biography	Born in Pescara in 1966, she read Law at the University of Bologna, where she graduated in 1991. Since 1992 she has taken part in scientific activities held at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of Law, Milan University, in the School of Law and Society. In 1992 she attended a training course in International Law at the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI), Milan. From 1993 to 1994 she worked for the Banca Commerciale Italiana. In 1998 she took an LLD at the European University Institute of Florence. From August 1998 to July 2001, she worked for the Translation Directorate (Italian Division) at the European Court of Justice, Luxembourg.
	Qualifications and awards	Degree in Law, highest marks (March 1991); Course in French Administrative Law and Advanced French, Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), Paris (July 1992); LLD in Law, EUI, Florence (September 1998); EUI Law Prize for the best PhD Thesis of the EUI Law Department (July 1999); Researcher in Sociology of Law, University of Insubria, Como (November 2001); Associate Professor, Sociology of Law (October 2005)
	Research interests	European Union institutional and procedural law, with particular emphasis on ECJ and CFI; Sociology of Law, Theory and Methods; Disputing before International Courts; Contextual Analysis of Legal Documents; Law and the Media
	Teaching experience and appointments	Researcher in Sociology of Law, University of Insubria, Como (2001-2005) and lecturer in Sociology of Law (2002-2005); Associate Professor of Sociology of Law, University of Insubria (since October 2005). Member of the I.S.A. Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL), since 1995; Guest Lecture on “Rights of Workers within the European Union”, University of Milan, April 2002; Guest Lecture on “Contextual Analysis in Socio-Legal Investigations”, University of Milan, December 2004; Member of the Scientific Committee of Sociologia del diritto, since 2005.
	Representative publications	Books: [The Court of First Instance and the EC Jurisdiction. A socio-legal Analysis] Il Tribunale di primo grado e la litigiosità comunitaria. Un’indagine sociologico-giuridica / Maria Cristina Reale – Milano: Giuffrè, 2000 – LINGUA: IT [The Dialogue between Italian and Community Judges through the Preliminary Rulings] Il dialogo tra giudici italiani e giudici comunitari attarverso i rinvii pregiudiziali / Maria Cristina Reale e Marco Borraccetti (Università di Ferrara) – Milano: Giuffrè (forthcoming) – LINGUA: IT Articles: [“A Community Soft Law Tool”[ “Uno strumento di soft law comunitario”, Impresa e Stato, June 1992 – LINGUA: IT [“Francis G. Snyder and the Contextual Analysis of EC Law”] “Francis G. Snyder e l’analisi contestuale del diritto comunitario”, Sociologia del diritto, XIX, 1992, 3, pp. 147-153 – LINGUA: IT [“Interpretative communications of the European Commission”] “Le comunicazioni interpretative della Commissione della Comunità europea”, Rivista di diritto europeo, 1993, 3, pp. 507-523 – LINGUA: IT “The Court of First Instance of the European Community: Something More than a Younger Brother?”, in Legal Culture: Encounters and Transformations. Transactions of the ISA - RCSL 95 Congress of Sociology of Law, vol. IV, Tokyo 1995 – LINGUA: EN “The Interactions between National Courts and Luxembourg Courts. The Italian Case” in European Ways of Law. Transactions of the First European Socio-Legal Conference, Oñati Institute for the Sociology of Law, País Vasco, Spain (forthcoming) – LINGUA: EN

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