Notes on Contributors
Ángel Aday Jiménez Alemán
is lecturer of Constitutional law in the University of Vigo. He received a PhD in Law from the same university in 2013. He has contributed to P. Pérez Tremps, A. Saiz Arnaiz, (dirs.), C. Montesinos Padilla, (coord.), Comentario a la Constitución de 1978. Libro-homenaje a Luis López Guerra, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2018.
Serena Baldin
is Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of Trieste, Italy. She is the author of two books and several essays on constitutional justice, minority protection, cultural heritage and environmental constitutionalism.
Gian Antonio Benacchio
is Full Professor of European Private Law at the Law Faculty, Trento University. Director of the Osservatorio Antitrust, member of International Academy of Comparative Law. Among several publications the last is Diritto Privato dell’Unione Europea, VII, Cedam, 2016.
Kristina Blažkovà
is Ph.D. student at the Charles University and clerk at the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic. In her writings, she focuses primarily on legal argumentation by judges and judicial role within the legal system. She has recently co-authored a book titled Foreign Influence and Comparison in Constitutional Law, an article on openness of courts and communication of judicial decisions and a case note on the ECJ judgment Al Chodor.
Valentina Cardinale
works on international research at the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. She is a lawyer and she took a PhD in Comparative Law at the University of Siena in 2009. She has several publications on comparative law subjects, about, among the others, freedom of teaching, Chinese property law and Scandinavian constitutional justice.
Paolo Carrozza
is Full Professor of Constitutional Law at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa). Main publications (in English): The Paradoxes of Constitutional Reform (2017); Kelsen and Contemporary Constitutionalism (2017); The Italian
Jan Chmel
is Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Law, Charles University, where he graduated in 2015. He focuses on judicial studies and recently he co-authored an article entitled “Communicating Judicial Decisions: Stepping out of the Black Box” in The Lawyer Quarterly with Kristina Blažková.
Anton Cooray
LLB., PhD (Lond), PhD (Sri Lanka) is Professor of Law at City, University of London; Author of Constitutional Law in Hong Kong (3rd ed., 2019: Kluwer), Environmental Law in Hong Kong (2nd ed., 2018: Kluwer); Editor of Journal of International and Comparative Law.
Oran Doyle
is Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin from where he obtained his Ph.D. He is the author of The Constitution of Ireland: A Contextual Analysis (Hart, 2008).
Francesco Duranti
is Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law Università per Stranieri di Perugia (Italy) PhD in Public Law (Università degli Studi di Perugia – February 2001) Lawyer at the Bar of Perugia (Italy).
Akiko Ejima
is Professor of Law at Law School, Meiji University (Tokyo). She holds a Ph.D from Meiji University. She was a visiting scholar at King’s College London, Harvard Law School, Faculty of Law and Hughes Hall, Cambridge and Wolfson College, Oxford. Professor Ejima writes and teaches in the field of Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law and International Human Rights Law. The most publications are as follow; Chapter on Japan, Mercat-Bruns, et al (eds.), Comparative Perspectives on the Enforcement and Effectiveness of Antidiscrimination Law (Springer, 2018), “A Possible Cornerstone for an Asian Human Rights Court” in SNU Asia-Pacific Law Institute (ed), Global Constitutionalism and Multi-layered Protection of Human Rights – Exploring (Constitutional Court of Korea, 2016).
Csaba Erdős
JD (SZE, 2010) PhD (SZE, 2014) is a senior lecturer at Széchenyi István University (Hungary) and at National University of Public Service (Hungary). His
Madis Ernits
is Judge at the Administrative Law Chamber of the Tartu Court of Appeal and lecturer for Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law of the Tartu University. He is author of two books and numerous other publications, mainly to Estonian Constitutional Law.
Justin O. Frosini
is Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law at the Bocconi University, Milan and Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is also the Director of the Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development in Bologna, Italy.
Sergio Gerotto
is full professor of Comparative Law at the Università degli Studi di Padova. He holds a Ph.D. in Constitutional Law from the Université de Fribourg (Switzerland). His writings covers various areas of Comparative Public Law, in particular regarding Federalism, Judicial Review and Direct Democracy
Maurilio Gobbo
is Full Professor of Constitutional Comparative Law at the University of Padova. His current scientific research has focused on the process of constitutional review and distinctive procedures of legitimacy control. In addition, his research is focused on re-elaborating and adapting to the public law distinctive categories and concepts of Roman-German law.
Christoph Grabenwarter
was researcher or professor in Vienna, Strassburg, Heidelberg, Bonn and Graz from 1988–2006; Vienna University of Economics and Business, professor; Austrian Constitutional Court, Vice-President. Publications include: European Convention on Human Rights, 2014; Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit in Europa (Ius Publicum Europaeum, Vol. VI, 2016, with v. Bogdandy and Huber).
Miroslaw Granat
is professor of constitutional law. Former Judge at the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland (2007–2016). Consultant of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe on the project Advice to the Constitutional Court of the Ukraine on the constitutional complaint.
is post-doctoral researcher in Comparative Law at the University of Ferrara and author of Zivilrechtliche Diskriminierungsverbote in nationalen Privatrechtsgesellschaften (2011). Recent publications include I legislatori occulti. Outsourcing legislativo ed espertocrazia nell’ordinamento tedesco (in: Politica del diritto, 2018) and Indipendenza del giudice e controllo disciplinare. Riflessioni a marginedi una recente sentenza della Corte die Cassazione tedesca (in: Materiali per una storia della cultura giuridica, 2019).
Tom Hickey
B.C.L (NUI), LL.M (Cantab.), Ph.D. (NUI, 2013), is Assistant Professor at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. He has published in journals including the International Journal of Constitutional Law and Legal Studies.
Mauro Mazza
is associate professor of Comparative Public Law in the University of Bergamo (Italy). He published most recently an essay on comparative local government in G.F. Ferrari et al. (Eds.), The Dutch Constitution Beyond 200, The Hague, 2018.
Laura Montanari
is Full Professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of Udine, where she is the Academic coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module “EU Enlargement and Constitutional Transitions in the Western Balkans”. She took a PhD in Constitutional Law at the University of Milan.
Nino Olivetti Rason
(B.A. Harvard, 1955), formerly Full Professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of Padua, Italy. His research focuses on Anglo-American law and Environmental law.
Jana Ondřejkovà
is senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the Faculty of Law, Charles University. She earned her Ph.D. in legal theory in 2011 (Prague) and currently focuses on the political context of judicial power.
Paolo Passaglia
is Professor of Comparative Law (University of Pisa). Ph.D. in Constitutional Justice (University of Pisa, 2001), and pro-tempore Scientific Coordinator of the Comparative Law Unit, Research Service of the Italian Constitutional Court.
Sara Pennicino
Ph.D, University of Siena – Italy, 2008 is Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of Padua, Italy and Adjunct Professor of International Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe. Her research focuses on elections.
Leonardo Pierdominici
is Post-doc Researcher at the School of Law of the Università di Bologna. PhD in Law at the European University Institute (2016)
His publications include works on European and comparative public law, also pertaining to Israel, in prestigious journals and numerous edited books published both in Italian and in English.
Carna Pistan
is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Udine; Affiliated Researcher at the Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development, Bologna. She is the author of the monograph “Between democracy and authoritarianism: systems of constitutional justice in Eastern Europe and Post-Soviet Countries”.
Francesca Polacchini
is PhD Research Fellow in Constitutional Law at the University of Bologna. Recently she published the monographic work “Doveri costituzionali e principio di solidarietà” and the essay “La libertà di espressione artistica in una prospettiva multilivello”
Angelo Rinella
graduated in law at the University of Rome La Sapienza, is full professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Rome LUMSA. His recent studies deal with neuro-cognitive enhancement, food sovereignty, GMOs in comparative law perspectives, Shari’a in the West.
Anita Rodina
Dr.iur (dissertation defended at the University of Latvia on 2006) is an associated professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Latvia. She is an author of several articles published in Latvia and abroad. Her professional interest is
Catarina Santos Botelho
is Assistant Professor at Porto Faculty of Law, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP). Master (2009) and PhD (2015) in Constitutional Law (UCP). Chair of the following courses: Constitutional Law, Fundamental Rights, Constitutional Justice, Multilevel Protection of Social Rights and Interdisciplinary Post-Graduation in Human Rights.
Fanni Tanács – Mandák
PhD (NUPS, 2014) is a senior lecturer at National University of Public Service (Hungary), associate research fellow at Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade. Her research fields: parliamentary law, forms of government, Italian political system. She published two monographs and around 50 publications.
Camelia Toader
is President of Chamber at the CJUE. Former Judge at the High Court of Cassation and Justice of Romania (1999–2007). Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. Ph.D., University of Bucharest,1997. Author of various publications in several languages
Wim Voermans
graduated from Tilburg Law School in 1987 and received his PhD there in 1995. Since 2002 Voermans is full professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University. Voermans’ research focuses on comparative constitutional law and theory, (European) legislative studies and democracy. See for further details https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/wim-voermans#tab-1
Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich
is full professor of comparative law in the University of Roma Tre and chairman of the Italian Association of Comparative Law. Among his more recent books is “Introduction to Comparative Legal Systems” (in open access with Roma TrE-Press).