Professor of Constitutional Law in the Law Faculty of Bologna
University since 1974.
Honorray President of the International Association of
Constitutional Law (IACL). Member of the Italian Association of
Constitutional Law and of the
Italian Association of Comparative Law.
Member of the Advisory Council of the Bologna Center of Johns
Hopkins University.
Past President of the Class of Moral Sciences of the Academy of
Sciences of Bologna.
Fields of interest: comparative constitutional law, national
security and emergencies, government parliament relations and the
role of the opposition,
constitutional reform, federalism.
Vice President of the “Consiglio della Magistratura Militare”
(2005).
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Author of many books and publications concerning Constitutional
Law, Public Law and Economics, Comparative Law, Military and
Foreign Law.
Among others:
- Diritto costituzionale comparato, Padova, Cedam, 2007 (seventh
edition);
- Diritto costituzionale, Padova, Cedam, 2008 (sixt
edition);
- Le transizioni costituzionali, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1998;
- Guerra e costituzione, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2004;
- Il bilanciamento fra sicurezza e libertà civili nella stagione
del terrorismo, in “Sicurezza: le nuove frontiere”, CSGE, Milano,
F.Angeli, 2005;
- Derecho Constitucional Comparado, UNAM, Mexico, 2005.
Fields of interest: comparative constitutional law, national
security and emergencies, government parliament relations and role
of the opposition,
constitutional reform, federalism.
