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Past PhD Students
Elettra Bargellini was awarded a PhD in EU Law and International Trade Law from Dublin City University (2025), under the supervision of Professor Federico Fabbrini. She holds an LLM in EU Law from King’s College London (2020) and a combined LLM and LLB (Laurea Magistrale) from the University of Bologna (2020). In 2024, she joined Princeton University as a Visiting Researcher, where she was affiliated with the School of Public and International Affairs.
Elettra’s PhD thesis investigates the subsidy control regime established under the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), assessing its ability to maintain a level playing field between the EU and the UK through a comparative analysis with WTO subsidy law and EU State aid law. While grounded in legal doctrine, her analysis adopts a law-in-context approach, examining the influence of political and economic dynamics on the drafting and implementation of the TCA.
She is currently a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute working on an interdisciplinary project that seeks to identify potential strategies for managing the increased use of subsidies at the global level, focusing on how EU anti-subsidy rules can be designed to effectively support climate change mitigation while safeguarding EU competitiveness.
She has taught at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, delivering lectures and visiting lectures on EU Law, EU Competition and Trade Law, Climate Change Law, and Research Methods in EU Law and Policy.
Havva Yeşil was awarded a PhD in EU Law and International Trade Law from Dublin City University (2025), under the supervision of Professor Federico Fabbrini.. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in law from Istanbul University and completed her LLM in Applied Human Rights Law at Sheffield Hallam University. Havva is a lawyer, registered with the Istanbul Bar Association. She was awarded a DCU PhD scholarship in 2020.
She specialises in EU migration law, human rights law, and European and international human rights law.
Elettra Bargellini was awarded a PhD in EU Law and International Trade Law from Dublin City University (2025), under the supervision of Professor Federico Fabbrini. She holds an LLM in EU Law from King’s College London (2020) and a combined LLM and LLB (Laurea Magistrale) from the University of Bologna (2020). In 2024, she joined Princeton University as a Visiting Researcher, where she was affiliated with the School of Public and International Affairs.
Elettra’s PhD thesis investigates the subsidy control regime established under the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), assessing its ability to maintain a level playing field between the EU and the UK through a comparative analysis with WTO subsidy law and EU State aid law. While grounded in legal doctrine, her analysis adopts a law-in-context approach, examining the influence of political and economic dynamics on the drafting and implementation of the TCA.
She is currently a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute working on an interdisciplinary project that seeks to identify potential strategies for managing the increased use of subsidies at the global level, focusing on how EU anti-subsidy rules can be designed to effectively support climate change mitigation while safeguarding EU competitiveness.
She has taught at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, delivering lectures and visiting lectures on EU Law, EU Competition and Trade Law, Climate Change Law, and Research Methods in EU Law and Policy.