Federica Botti

Federica Botti is Researcher of Ecclesiastic Law at the School of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna - Alma Mater Studiorum.She graduated in law in Bologna, and received her PhD in Bioethics (Bologna) and PhD in Droit canonique & Dt relations religions-Etats (Université PARIS-SUD 11).She has obtained the national scientific qualification (ASN) to Associate Professor. Since 2004 she is the scientific coordinator of the http://licodu.cois.it site (Freedom of Conscience and Human Rights) that offers scholars of religious freedom and freedom of conscience and religious denominations in Eastern Europe.She took care of legal issues of religious denominations and of individual and collective religious freedom in Albania and Romania, and more generally in relation to the Balkans. Another field of interest regards the religious buildings and the cultural heritage. She performs consultations for the Balkan governments collaborating with the Academy of Sciences of Albania and Bulgaria Go to the Curriculum vitae