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Mario Mendez graduated with a first class degree in Law and Politics from QMUL and was awarded the Drapers’ Scholarship to study at the College of William and Mary in Virginia where he completed an LLM in American Legal Studies. He was awarded a distinction on the BCL at the University of Oxford and the Vinerian Scholarship Proxime Accessit (second place). He completed his PhD at the European University Institute (EUI). He completed the Post-Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice at QMUL (awarded with distinction) and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

His research interests are mainly in constitutional law (EU, UK and comparative).  There are two main strands to his published and current research agenda. The first concerns the relationship between international law and domestic constitutional systems and this is the subject matter of a recent article in the International Journal of Constitutional Law as well as his monograph on The Legal Effects of EU Agreements (OUP 2013) and a number of on-going research projects. The second strand concerns direct democracy and recently completed research projects in this area include a co-authored article on Direct Democracy in the EU (forthcoming in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies), a co-authored study on Referendums on EU Matters (2017) that was prepared for the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament and a co-authored monograph entitled Referendums and the European Union: A comparative inquiry (CUP 2014) (a book which has its origins in a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation).

Mario has worked for the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute and has spent periods visiting at the University of Cambridge (Centre for European Legal Studies), the University of Michigan’s Law School, the Centre for Research on Direct Democracy at the University of Zurich, and as a trainee at the European Commission.  He is a research associate at the University of Zurich’s e-Democracy centre with whom he collaborated in developing a voting advice application for the 2012 London mayoral elections. He was a lead member of the QMUL team that collaborated with the Preference Matcher consortium in developing a voting advice application for the 2015 and 2017 UK General Elections (www.whogetsmyvoteUK.com).

He is a former member of the editorial committee of the journal Public Law.

He is one of the co-directors of the QMUL Centre for European and International Legal Affairs (CEILA), and a member of the QMUL Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context (CLSGC) and the QMUL Centre for European Research
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