Silvana Sciarra (born 24 July 1948) is an Italian jurist and academic. She has been a 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 and serves as its president since 20 September 2022.
Career
Sciarra was born in
Trani
Trani () is a seaport of Apulia, in southern Italy, on the Adriatic Sea, by railway west-northwest of Bari. It is one of the capital cities of the Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani.
History
Overview
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. She taught European Labour and Social Law at the
European University Institute
The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research institute and an independent body of the European Union with juridical personality, established by the member states to contribu ...
between 1994 and 2003. She was a professor of labour law at 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 the
University of Siena
The University of Siena ( it, Università degli Studi di Siena, abbreviation: UNISI) in Siena, Tuscany, is one of the oldest and first publicly funded universities in Italy. Originally called ''Studium Senese'', the institution was founded in 1240 ...
before being appointed to the Constitutional Court by the Italian Parliament on 6 November 2014. In the parliamentary election she obtained 630 out of a necessary 570 votes. She was sworn in on 11 November 2014.
She is the first woman elected by the
Italian Parliament
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as a Judge of the
Constitutional Court
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. Previously, she was a Harkness Fellow at UCLA and Harvard Law School (1974-1976). She was Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Professor in several Universities, among which Warwick (Leverhulme Professor), Columbia Law School (BNL Professor), Cambridge (where she held the Arthur Goodhart Chair in Legal Science 2006-2007), Stockholm, Lund, University College London. She holds Ph.D. Honoris Causa in Law at the Universities of Stockholm (2006) and Hasselt (2012).
References
1948 births
Living people
European University Institute faculty
European Union law scholars
Judges of the Constitutional Court of Italy
Labour law scholars
People from Trani
University of Florence faculty
University of Siena faculty
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