Sara Canduzzi

Sara Canduzzi is an Early Career Fellow in European Union Law at the Edinburgh Law School. Her Fellowship is supported by the 'Taming the Dark Energy of EU Law' Leverhulme Trust project led by Niamh Nic Shuibhne.

Sara teaches on a variety of undergraduate courses, including European Union Law and Global Jurisprudence. She also contributes to postgraduate teaching in the EU Law subject area and has experience delivering tutorials and lectures in Jurisprudence, Public Law, and International Law. She was awarded Advance HE Associate Fellowship in February 2025.

Sara’s research interests lie in the areas of EU Law, Constitutional Law and Theory, Law and Legal Theory beyond the State. Her doctoral research provided an original account of the nature and evolution of the EU as a constitutional entity through the conceptual lens of crisis by developing a theory of constitutional crisis in the EU. More broadly, Sara is interested in the study of how key concepts of Constitutional Law and Theory (such as sovereignty, legitimacy, and authority) translate to and transform in the non-national domain. She is also keen to use critical approaches in her study of EU Law and Constitutional Law and Theory.

During her doctoral degree, Sara has been co-convenor of both the Europa Postgraduate Research Group and of the Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group.

She is currently awaiting to defend her PhD thesis after submitting it for examination in December 2025. She holds an LLM in Law from the University of Edinburgh, a Diploma in Law from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, and a Master Degree in Law from the University of Pisa.