Matteo Bottero

Visiting Fellow
Matteo Bottero is a Visiting Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) at the Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies (RSCAS), European University Institute (EUI), Florence. He is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Private Governance (CEPRI) at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (Denmark). His current research is part of the project ‘Law and private governance for a new understanding of immigrant integration (LUII)’ funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, and contributes to the definition and development of the concept of immigrant integration within the EU and international legal frameworks.

Matteo holds a PhD degree in Law from the University of Copenhagen (2020). Previously he also held academic positions at the Brexit Institute and School of Law and Government, Dublin City University (Ireland) and the Institute for Labour Law at the Faculty of Law, KU Leuven (Belgium). He has been a Lecturer in EU Law, Advanced EU Constitutional Law, and European and International Human Rights Law at the University of Copenhagen and Dublin City University.

Matteo is the author of the book ‘Posting of Workers in EU Law: Challenges of Equality, Solidarity and Fair Competition’, published by Kluwer Law International (2020), as well as other publications in the fields of EU law, EU policy, and immigrant integration.

Research focus/Fields of interest: EU Law and Policy, Immigrant Integration, EU Labour Law.