Silvia Bagni is currently Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna, Italy. She earned a PhD in Constitutional Law from the same University in 2005 and completed a 2 year post-doc in Bioethics, from UPRA (Università Pontifica Regina Apostolorum,Rome) in 2013.
Her research interests include constitutional justice, Latin American constitutionalism, interculturalism, and ecological law. She has been visiting professor or invited speaker at Universities in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. She is professor of the PhD Programme in Constitutional and International Law at the Universidad San Carlos in Guatemala and in the PhD Programme in Law oat the University of Cádiz in Spain.
Silvia is member of the editorial board of Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo (il Mulino, Bologna) and of the open access Comparative Law Journal DPCE Online. She is also member of the scientific committee of Revista General de Derecho público comparado (Iustel, Spain) and of many other Latin American Law Reviews.
In 2013, Silvia was co-founder of the Centro studi sull’America Latina, in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. In 2018, she was nominated as an expert for the United Nations Harmony with Nature Programme, (http://www.harmonywithnatureun.org [http://www.harmonywithnatureun.org/] ) and in 2019 she was invited to be speaker at the UN Dialogue on Harmony with Nature in New York. In 2020, she co-authored a study commissioned by the European Economic and Social Committee, Towards an EU Charter of the Fundamental Rights of Nature (https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/our-work/publications-other-work/studies ISBN 978-92-830-4971-5 [https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/our-work/publications-other-work/studies%20ISBN%20978-92-830-4971-5] ).
