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Book presentation – STALS – Sant’Anna Legal Studies

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:50:55 +0100

On Monday, 2 March, I had the pleasure of discussing my monograph Asymmetries, Courts, and Comparative Constitutional Lawnbsp;(Brill 2025) with

Maja Sahadžićnbsp;(Utrecht University)
Matteo Monti (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
Nicolò Paolo Alessi (UniDistance Suisse amp; Université de Neuchâtel)

The presentation was organised by STALS – Sant’Anna Legal Studiesnbsp;and can be found on YouTube.

In memory of Giulio Regeni

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:48:13 +0100

Dear students,

Ten years after the disappearance of Giulio Regeni in Cairo on 25 January 2016, I feel it is important to share some resources to invite you to learn about his story.

Documentary “Giulio Regeni - Tutto il male del mondo” by Simone Manetti (2026), which will be screened on 2, 3 and 4 February at the Cinema Teatro Gallieranbsp;(Bologna)
Interview with Paola and Claudio Regeni, Giulio's parents, on "Propaganda Live" (24/03/2023)

I would also like to suggest some articles that provide further insight into the legal aspects of the Regeni case:

Acconciamessa, Lorenzo. "Balancing the Interest in Prosecuting International Crimes against the Fair Trial Guarantees: The Italian Constitutional Court's Judgment in the Regeni Case on the Prosecution of Torture In Absentia",nbsp;International Criminal Law Review 24, no. 2 (2024): 187-214
Buscemi, Martina, and Federica Violi. "Atti di tortura e ricorsi interstatali: prospettive nell’ambito della Convenzione ONU contro la tortura, e oltre", Diritti umani e diritto internazionale, no. 3 (2021): 613-655
Parisi, Piergiuseppe, and Mattia Pinto. "In Pursuit of Greater Accountability for Torture: The Case of Giulio Regeni after Judgment no. 192/2023 of the Italian Constitutional Court,"nbsp;The Italian Yearbook of International Law Onlinenbsp;33, no. 1 (2024): 287-308

Finally, to learn more about Giulio's profile as a doctoral researcher, below you can find one of the studies he was working on while conducting his fieldwork in Cairo:

Vidican Auktor, Georgeta, and Regeni, Giulio. "The Developmental State in the 21st Century: Calling for a New Social Contract", German Development Institute, Discussion Paper No. 5/2017 (2017): 1-32

New book, freely accessible with Unibo account

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:49:18 +0100

My new book is out!

Asymmetries, Courts, and Comparative Constitutional Law explores constitutional asymmetries in divided multi-tiered systems as a dynamic constitutional model to accommodate ethnocultural diversity through a comparative analysis of 12 constitutional systems from both the Global North and the Global South. It offers a unique integrated analysis of asymmetries as designed by the constitutional orders and interpreted by courts.

The monograph has been published by Brill, within the Series "Studies in Territorial and Cultural Diversity Governance", and is freely accessible while connected to AlmaWifi or through the proxy for remote access (with Unibo account):nbsp;

https://almastart.unibo.it/permalink/f/10694hg/39UBO_ALMAE_DS51153162810007041