Andrea Zanotti is a full professor of canonic law at the Law
Faculty of the University of Bologna. In the same city, he also
holds the office of Rector of the Collegio dei Fiamminghi. From
1982 to 1984 he practised law. Since 1983, he has contributed
effectively to the policies of the University in Bologna, as well
as to the organization of the university's 900-year anniversengono
confermati.ary celebrations and for the Magna Charta Universitatum,
signed by more than 600 European rectors in September 1988.
He was member of the ITC Board of Directors and the Executive
Committee for the 1995 and 2002 terms.
He has worked for several research groups, both at national and
at international level. In 2003 he acted as reviewer for the VI
Framewok Programme of the European Union, and from 2003-2004, by
appointment of the President of the Italian Council of Ministers,
he coordinated a working group of the national committee for
biosecurity and biotechnolgies.
He is a registered freelance journalist.
From October 2004 to February 2007, President of the ITC
(Istituto Trentino di Cultura) of Trento. From March 2007
untile December 2010 he was President of Fondazione Bruno
Kessler, an interdisciplinary research institution that has
inherited all faculties, duties and obligations of Istituto
Trentino di Cultura.
In 2011 began the drafting of a new monograph entitled The
Church among new paganism and oblivion. A return to the origins of
the canon law of the third millennium? that sees the light in
2012 for the types Giappichelli of Turin, a book already
positively reviewed both in Italy and abroad. Also in 2012 held the
teaching of canon law also at the University of Ferrara. He became
vice-president of the Fondazione Marino Golinelli of
Bologna. In 2013, he continues to teach, as in 2012,
"Comparative analysis of religious rights" at the Department of Law
of the University of Bologna. In 2014 he is the Director of the "Terminus" Editorial Series of the Department of Legal Sciences of Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, which serves as a tool for interdisciplinary comparison and collaboration between the ordinary professors of the various scientific areas. The stated intent is to rediscover, in a time of radical changes of civilization and like was happened at the origin of the Bolognese Studium, some great themes that will mark our future. The first volume is dedicated to "The Responsability Principle", followed by the second "Which Future After Democracy". In 2016 he became President of the Golinelli Foundation, who also served as the first secretary since the 1988, year of the birth.
