Sabrina Ragone has been an associate (tenured) professor of Comparative Law at the University of Bologna since 2017. She received the national qualification for full professorship in comparative law in 2020.
She is also a Senior Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), where she was a full-time senior researcher from 2015 to 2017. Previously, she was Investigadora García Pelayo at the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales in Madrid (2012-2015) and postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2011-2012). In 2025, she was a Fernand Braudel Fellow in the Department of Law at the European University Institute, in Florence.
She has been appointed visiting professor and scholar in the USA (at George Washington University in 2012, Texas A&M in 2018, Boston College in 2017, and Michigan Law in 2022 as Michigan International and Comparative Law Research Scholar), Spain (Universidad de Sevilla in 2012, Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2019, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2020), and Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile). She has taught comparative law courses and modules at undergraduate, graduate and PhD level in Germany (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Heidelberg Universität), Spain (Universidad de Jaén, Universidad de Granada, Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid), France (Université Catholique de Lille), Colombia (Universidad del Rosario, Universidad Libre, Universidad Externado, Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Sergio Arboleda), Argentina (Universidad Austral), and Mexico (FUNDAP).
In 2023 she was awarded the Jean Monnet Chair ROLLBACK “Rule of Law Backsliding in Europe” and previously the Jean Monnet Modules EU_SOCIAL “European Solidarity: Comparative Interdisciplinary Approach to Law, Politics and Social Challenges” (2022/2025) and CRISES “Critical Risks for Integration and Solidarity in the European Space” (2018/2021). Between 2023 and 2026 she was also the PI of the national PRIN project SPACE “Swinging Peripheries and Centers in Europe Comparative Legal Dimensions of Territory”, project funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and NextGenerationEU, involving also UNIFI, UNIVR, UNICAL, and LUM.
She has been a member of 2 Capacity Building in Higher Education projects (DEMOS, 2024-2027 and REMOVE, 2021.2023), involving European and Latin American partners from France, Spain, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. She has been a key staff member of the Jean Monnet Modules Uex_EU Reform (2022-2025, Universidad de Extremadura) and “European Standards of Local Self-Government and EU Regional Policy” (2019-2022, Karazin Kharkiv National University), as well as the Jean Monnet Chair CODE (2022-2025, Università di Palermo) and the Jean Monnet project EUCONS (2020-2022, Universidad de Granada. Currently, she collaborates with the Center of Excellence EU Futures “Fostering New Economic Strategies for a Sustainable, Inclusive and Resilient Europe” (2025, UNIBO).
She has been a key staff member of 10 national projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, as well as investigadora de cooperación internacional of 2 Chilean national research projects Fondecyt: “Las normas derogatorias en la transición constitucional. Una contribución desde el Derecho Comparado” and “La naturaleza de la acción de inaplicabilidad por vicios de forma”.
She has published several books (among which Ragone-Smorto, Il primo libro di diritto comparato, Einaudi, 2025, and Comparative Law. A Very Short Introduction, OUP, 2023; Ragone, Parlamentarismos y crisis económica, Bosch, 2020; or Ragone, I controlli giurisdizionali sulle revisioni costituzionali, BUP, 2011), and over a hundred journal articles and book chapters; she has edited six collective volumes (among which von Bogdandy-Huber-Ragone [eds], Constitutional Foundations, OUP, 2023, or Ragone [ed.], Managing the Euro Crisis: National EU Policy Coordination in the Debtor Countries, Routledge, 2018), as well as six international special issues on Revista Derecho del Estado, DPCE online, Opinio Juris in Comparatione, Federalismi.it, Rivista di Diritti Comparati, or Revista General de Derecho Público Comparado. Her scholarship, in English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, and Portuguese, delves into comparative methodology, constitutional adjudication, decentralization, and European constitutional law.
She currently holds the post of head of the Stakeholder and Placement Committee of the Department, where she previously served as the head of international relations. At UNIBO, she has been a member of the Council of the Centro de Altos Estudios of the Representación en la República Argentina of the University since 2022, of the Scientific Committee of the Collegio Superiore since 2021, of the Istituto di Studi Superiori (2023-2024), and of the committee evaluating the quality of research in law (VRA) since 2022. She has belonged to the scientific committee of the “Public Governance, Management e Policy” PhD program since 2022.
