Nicolò Zanon (; born 27 March 1961) is an Italian judge and law professor. He has been Judge of the

Constitutional Court of Italy The Constitutional Court of the Italian Republic ( it, Corte costituzionale della Repubblica Italiana) is the highest court of Italy in matters of constitutional law. Sometimes, the name ''Consulta'' is used as a metonym for it, because its sessi ...

since 11 November 2014. Previously he was a law professor at the

University of Milan The University of Milan ( it, Università degli Studi di Milano; la, Universitas Studiorum Mediolanensis), known colloquially as UniMi or Statale, is a public university, public research university in Milan, Italy. It is one of the largest uni ...

Career

Zanon was born in

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. Th ...

. He was a professor of Constitutional law at the

before being appointed to the Constitutional Court by the Italian President,

Giorgio Napolitano Giorgio Napolitano (; born 29 June 1925) is an Italian politician who served as president of Italy from 2006 to 2015, the first Italian president to be re-elected to the presidency. Due to his dominant position in Italian politics, some critics ...

, on 18 October 2014. Zanon had also worked at the

University of Turin The University of Turin ( Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the oldest universities in Europe and continues to play an imp ...

as a comparative constitutional law researcher and as an assistant to Valerio Onida, a judge on the Constitutional Court of Italy. Zanon was sworn in on 11 November 2014. Zanon was made Knight Grand Cross in the

Order of Merit of the Italian Republic The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ( it, Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana) is the senior Italian order of merit. It was established in 1951 by the second President of the Italian Republic, Luigi Einaudi. The highest-rankin ...

on 31 May 2017.

References

1961 births Living people Judges of the Constitutional Court of Italy Jurists from Turin Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Academic staff of the University of Turin Academic staff of the University of Milan {{Italy-law-bio-stub