Benedetta Barbisan is Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Macerata (Italy). Previously, she has visited Boston College Law School, Harvard Law School, Universidad de Oviedo (Spain), Yale Law School, King’s College London, Queen’s University Belfast, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (Germany), and the Université Catholique de Lille (France).
Alongside with numerous essays in scholarly journals and book chapters on relevant topics of constitutional law in comparative perspective, she has authored a book on Marbury v. Madison and the origin of the judicial review in the U.S. (2008) and, with Giuliano Amato, former Vice-president of the European Convention, a book on the dialogue between the Italian Constitutional Court, the EU Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights (2016). She has edited the book by Guido Calabresi Il mestiere di giudice. Pensieri di un accademico americano and the Italian edition of Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s memoirs. Finally, a book on constitutionalism and the ‘right to die’ is about to be published in 2019 by Springer.
She has created the first lectureship in Italy in Comparative Constitutional Law, the Alberico Gentili Lectures, delivered by internationally distinguished scholars and judges from a number of supreme and constitutional courts around the world. She also coordinates a PhD programme in Global Studies. Justice, Rights, Politics.
Her current interests are human rights and judicial activism, constitutional history and traditions, constitutional implications of the ‘right to die’, constitutional patriotism.
