Annalisa Ciampi is an Italian law professor and public official. In 2017, Ciampi served as

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Education

Ciampi received her Juris Doctor degree from the

University of Florence The University of Florence (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Firenze'', UniFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools and has around 50,000 students enrolled. History The first universi ...

and her

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(LLM) from

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. Ciampi went on to receive a

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in international law from the

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. Additionally, Ciampi was a Brendan Fellow at the Lautherpacht Centre for International Law in at the

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Career

Ciampi was a professor of international law at the

University of Verona The University of Verona ( it, Università degli Studi di Verona) is a university located in Verona, Italy. It was founded in 1982 and is organized in 12 Departments. According to business newspaper ''Il Sole 24 Ore'', it is ranked as the best no ...

prior to her

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appointment. While at the University of Verona, Ciampi published an article on the impeachment proceedings against

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president Omar al-Bashir in the

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. She was also a visiting professor of European human rights law at the Monash University Prato Centre. On 1 May 2017, Ciampi replaced

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, serving until 30 November 2017. This appointment made her the first Italian to serve as a special rapporteur since

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. She was succeeded in this position in 2018 by

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References

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