1. Personal information

First name : Enoch
Family name : Alberti Rovira
Date of birth : March, 19, 1958
Gender : male

Professional address : Departament de Dret Constitucional
                                Facultat de Dret
                                Universitat de Barcelona
                                Diagonal, 684
                                08034 Barcelona
                                Spain

                                Tel :  34 – 93 402 43 99
                                Fax : 34 – 93 402 44 09
 

                            E.mail : e.alberti@ub.edu

2. Education and academic degrees

- Doctor in Law, University of Barcelona, 1986
- Pre-doctoral stage at the University of Bielefeld (Germany), with Prof. Dieter Grimm (1982-1984). Juan March Foundation Scholarship.
- Assistant Professor at the University of Lleida (1982).
- FPI Scholarship 1981-1982 (Researcher’s Training Program, Ministry of Education)
- Graduate in Law “con grado “, University of Barcelona, 1982
- Graduate in Law, University of Barcelona , 1981
 

3. Language skills

- Catalan (mother language)
- Spanish (as mother language, bilingual)
- English (well read, written and spoken)
- French (well read; regular written and spoken)
- German (well read, regular written and spoken)

4. Professional experience  and  career appointments

- Full Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Barcelona (since 1992)
- Director of the Department of Constitutional Law of the Barcelona University (1996-2000) and Secretary of this Department (1995-96)
- Titular Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Barcelona (1987-1992)
- Consultant at the Open University of Catalonia (1996-2000)
- Assistant in the Office of the Minister for Public Administrations, Spanish Government, (Madrid, 1987-1988).
- Visiting Scholar at the European Law Research Center at the Harvard University (USA), 2003-2004.
- Participation in congresses and seminars, and also courses and talks in many universities, in Spain and abroad.
- Required as expert for the Spanish Senate (hearing about the chamber reform, 1998) and for the Catalan Parliament (report and hearing about improving the catalan autonomous statute, 2001).
- Required as expert in the preparatory works to elaborate several law projects and statues (ordered by Spanish Government, Catalan Government and the Government of Andorra).  have done also several
- Reports for public institutions about matters of public law
- Academic Director of the Forum EuropaFuture (EF), which has followed the works of the European Convention since its creation in march 2002, organized by the Institut d’Estudis Autonòmics (dependent of the Catalan Government)  and a public Foundation on Government Studies (Fundació Carles Pi-Sunyer d’Estudis Autonòmics i Locals
- Editorial boards and networks committees : member of redaction council of two law reviews (Revista Española de Derecho Constitucional, and Revista Española de Derecho Europeo); Member of the academic committee of the Constitutional Law Network of Spain DERECONS (since their foundation in 1999).
 

5. Participation in research projects

- Director of various research projects on territorial power structure and fundamental rights, granted by different institutions dependent on  the Spanish Government (Ministerio de Educación, Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Centro de Estudios Constitucionales) and the Catalan Government (Institut d’Estudis Autonòmics), and also by private institutions (Fundación Juan March, Fundación Vicens Mestres Jane). Among them :

- “The effect of Constitutional Court on the fundamental rights”, (1999-2001), granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science
- “The changes on the protection system of the fundamental rights at the national and european level” (2002-2004), granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science
- “Actors and proceedings in the new European law making process”, granted by the BBVA Foundation (2004-2005).

- Director of the Workgroup on the European integration process, organized and granted by Institut d’Estudis Autòmics (dependent of the Catalan Government) and the Fundació Pi Sunyer (pubic foundation).
- Collaborator since 1991 of the Groupe d’Etudes et de Recherches sur la Justice Constitutionnelle, d’Aix en Provence (France), leaded by Prof. Louis Favoreu.
- Collaborator in different programs of the European Union programs related to institutional development of Costa Rica, Paraguay and Guatemala).
 

6. Publications

Books:

- Federalismo y cooperación en la República Federal Alemana (1987). Madrid: Centro de Estudios Constitucionales.
- Unidad económica y autonomía política (1993 and 1995). Barcelona : Institut d’Estudis Autonòmics (in catalan); Madrid : Civitas (in spanish)
- El component solidaritat en el sistema de finançament de les Comunitats Autònomes (2001). Barcelona : Institut d’Estudis Autonòmics.

Edited Books:

- Manual de Dret Públic de Catalunya, (1992, 1998, 2002); Barcelona : Institut d’Estudis Autonòmics- Marcial Pons.
- El proyecto de nueva Constitución Europea. Balance de los trabajos de la Convención sobre el futuro de Europa (2004). Valencia-Barcelona : Tirant lo Blanch .

Articles: (selection) :

- “La representación territorial” (2004),  Fundamentos. Cuadernos Monográficos de Teoria del Estado, Derecho Público e Historia Constitucional, n.3.(in press)
- “La delimitación de competencias entre la Unión Europea y los Estados miembros. (Hacia una lógica constitucional más visible de la atribución de competencias a la Unión)” (2003). Revista Vasca de Administración Pública, n. 65-II
- “Las regiones en el debate sobre la nueva arquitectura institucional de la Unión Europea” (2002), Investigaciones Regionales, n. 2.
- “La cláusula de libre circulación y la garantía de la unidad del mercado interno en la Constitución Española de 1978” (1994), Revista del Centro de Estudios Constitucionales,  n. 14.
- “Las relaciones de colaboración entre el Estado y las Comunidades Autónomas” (1985), Revista Española de Derecho Constitucional, n. 14

In addition, more than forty articles in collective books and public law reviews published in Spain, Germany, France, Mexico, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and Chile.
 

7. Awards

- Prize “Nicolas Perez Serrano” for doctoral thesis (national award, 1986).
- Silver Medal “Robert Schuman”, 1988, in Metz (France), proposed by FSV Foundation Hamburg (Germany).
 

8. Research Interests

Main research lines :
- territorial power distribution (federalism, autonomous communities);
- European integration;
- Fundamental rights
- economical constitution.