Staff Profile

Qualifications

Laurea in Giurisprudenza University of Florence
MJur University of Oxford
MPhil University of Oxford
DPhil University of Sussex

Research Interests

 EU law, constitutional and economic law 

Postgraduate Supervision

If you would like further information on reading for a research degree at Newcastle Law School please see www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/postgraduate/research/index.htm

EU Law

Administrative Law

Competition Law (State Aid) 

• Articles

  • De Cecco, F. The Trouble with Trumps: On how (and why) not to Define the Core of Fundamental Rights. Common Market Law Review 2023, 60(6), 1-28. In Press.
  • de Cecco F. Fundamental Freedoms, Fundamental Rights and the Scope of Free Movement Law. German Law Journal 2014, 15(3), 383-406.
  • De Cecco, F. The Many Meanings of ‘Competition’ in EC State Aid Law. Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 2007, 9, 111 - 131.
  • de Cecco F. Room to move? Minimum harmonization and fundamental rights. Common Market Law Review 2006, 43(1), 9-30.

• Authored Book

  • de Cecco F. State Aid and the European Economic Constitution. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2013.

• Book Chapters

  • De Cecco F. Tax Powers and the EU State Aid Regime. In: Alicia Hinarejos and Robert Schütze, ed. EU Fiscal Federalism: Past, Present, Future. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, pp.31-56.
  • De Cecco F. A Constitutional View of State Aid. In: Juan Jorge Piernas López, Leigh Hancher & Luca Rubini, ed. The Future of EU State Aid Law. EU Law Live, 2023.
  • De Cecco F. Member State Interests in EU State Aid Law and Policy. In: Varju, M, ed. Between Compliance and Particularism: Member State Interests and European Union Law. Cham: Springer, 2019, pp.129-145.
  • De Cecco F. False friends and true cognates: On fundamental freedoms, fundamental rights and union citizenship. In: The Reach of Free Movement. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2017, pp.253-271.
  • Gray J, de Cecco F. Competition, stability and moral hazard: the tension between financial regulation and State aid control. In: Laprévote F-C; Gray J; de Cecco F, ed. Research Handbook on State Aid in the Banking Sector. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017, pp.20-53.
  • de Cecco F. State Aid and Self-Government: Regional Taxation and the Shifting Spaces of Constitutional Autonomy. In: Shuibhne, N.N., Gormley, L, ed. From Single Market to Economic Union: Essays in Memory of John A. Usher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp.221-239.
  • De Cecco F. State Aid and Self-Government: Regional Taxation and the Shifting Spaces of Constitutional Autonomy. In: From Single Market to Economic Union: Essays in Memory of John A. Usher. Oxford University Press, 2012, pp.-.
  • de Cecco F. State Aid Law Meets Financial Regulation. In: Gray, J; Akseli, O, ed. Financial Regulation in Crisis: The Role of Law and the Failure of Northern Rock. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2011, pp.56-71.
  • de Cecco F. Politiche sociali e divieto di aiuti di stato. In: Sciarra, S, ed. Solidarieta, mercato e concorrenza nel welfare italiano. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007.

• Note

  • de Cecco F. Minimum Harmonization and the limits of Union fundamental rights review: TSN and AKT. Common Market Law Review 2021, 58(1), 187-200.

• Online Publication

  • de Cecco F. Miller, Article 50 Revocability and the Question of Control. UKCLA, 2016. Available at: https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2016/11/17/francesco-de-cecco-miller-article-50-revocability-and-the-question-of-control/.

• Reviews

  • De Cecco F. Review of Fernando Pastor-Merchante, The Role of Competitors in the Enforcement of State Aid Law. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2017. Common Market Law Review 2018, 55(4), 1283-1284.
  • de Cecco F. Financing Services of General Economic Interest: Reform and Modernization. European Law Review 2015, 40(1), 118-120.