Overview

Jaime Lluch was born and raised in Puerto Rico (an unincorporated territory of the USA), and has spent many years studying and working in the USA and Europe.  He has also traveled extensively in the Americas and in the Mediterranean region.
He received his B.A. from Brown University (Phi Beta Kappa), and earned his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, and then spent several years working as an environmental law attorney, etc.
He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at Yale University, awarded in May of 2007.  His thesis was entitled “Shades of Stateless Nationhood: Explaining Internal Variation in the Political Orientation of the National Movements of Quebec and Catalonia (1976-2005)" (Chair: James C. Scott).
He is a comparativist who works on the politics of accommodation in multinational  democracies, comparative federalism and comparative constitutionalism,  models of multilevel governance and citizenship, European and EU politics, and now increasingly on migration and global governance.   He is also interested in  citizenship,  race/ethnicity and multiculturalism, and imperialism and nation-state formation processes.

His published work (so far) has to do with the accommodation of ethnonational diversity in multinational democracies, models of multilevel governance and citizenship, and comparative federalism. His first book is entitled Visions of Sovereignty: Varieties of  Minority Nationalism in Multinational Democracies, and it is under contract by the University of Pennsylvania Press in the Series edited by Prof. Brendan O’Leary, and the expected publication date is Spring 2012.  He has articles published in Publius: the Journal of Federalism, European Political Science Review, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Nationalities Papers, and a forthcoming chapter in an edited volume by Richard Simeon and John McGarry.
 He organized a major conference at St. Antony’s College, Oxford last June,  and he expects that the conference papers will be published in an edited volume in which he will be the editor, entitled The Politics of Accommodation in Multinational Democracies, and published by Palgrave MacMillan, in their St. Antony’s College Series (Othon Anastasakis-Series Editor). 
In April of 2007 he was awarded a National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship for the 2007-2009 period.  During the first year of his post-doc (2007-2008), he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Political and Social Sciences Department at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.  During the second year (2008-2009), he was a Visiting Fellow in the Max Weber Post-Doctoral Program at the EUI. 

During 2009-2010, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at URGE (Research Unit on European Governance), at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, in Turin (Moncalieri), Italy. 
 During 2010-2011, he was  the Santander Fellow in Iberian and European Studies at the European Studies Center, St. Antony's College, Oxford University, U.K., where he was working on a new research project on citizenship regimes and transnationality in the EU, etc.
During 2011-2012, he is a Visiting Fellow in Italian Studies at Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, Italy,  where he is working on "Italian Federalism and Devolutionary Autonomies in Northern Italy."  He is doing fieldwork in Aosta and Bolzano-Alto Adige.