Maria Francesca De Tullio
Maria Francesca De Tullio is post-doc researcher in Constitutional Law at the Federico II University of Naples. She was on research stay at the Université Paris 2 Panthéon Assas in 2017 and then post-doc researcher at the University of Antwerp within the EU project Cultural and Creative Spaces and Cities. She is a member of the “Constitutions in the Age of the Internet” IACL research group and of the RICDP – Red Internacional de Cátedras, Instituciones y Personalidades sobre el Estudio de la Deuda Pública. Among other publications, she authored a monograph on “Substantial Equality and New Dimensions of Political Participation”.
Her post-doc is funded by European Union (PON R&I 2014-2020) within a research project concerning the use of digital technology in the agricultural sector, with a focus on the new ‘right to food’, currently guaranteed by Article 117, paragraph 1, of the Italian Constitution and by international treaties. The aim of the project is to protect the right to food, which is a projection of the right to health (Art. 32 Const.) and the duty of rational land use (Art. 44 Const.).
Her main research areas are: commons, cultural policies, counter-terrorism and legal states of emergency, Internet law, European economic governance.
Additionally, she engaged as an activist and juridical expert in the dialogue on commons between grassroots movements and administration in different cities of Italy.