The government of Italy is in the form of a democratic republic,and was established by a constitution in 1948. It consists of legislative,executive,and judicial subdivisions,as well as a Head of State,or President.
Giuliano Amato is an Italian politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Italy,first from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2000 to 2001. Upon Arnaldo Forlani's death in July 2023,Amato became the country's earliest-serving Prime Minister.
The Constitutional Court of the Italian Republic is the highest court of Italy in matters of constitutional law. Sometimes,the name Consulta is used as a metonym for it,because its sessions are held in Palazzo della Consulta in Rome.
Andrew Peter Napolitano is an American former jurist and syndicated columnist whose work appears in numerous publications,including The Washington Times and Reason. Napolitano served as a New Jersey Superior Court judge from 1987 to 1995. He also served as a visiting professor at Widener University Delaware Law School,Seton Hall University School of Law,and Brooklyn Law School. Beginning in 1997,he became an analyst for Fox News,commenting on legal news and trials. Napolitano was removed from the network in August 2021 following sexual harassment allegations. He has written nine books on legal and political subjects.
The University of Trento is an Italian university located in Trento and nearby Rovereto. It has been able to achieve considerable results in didactics,research,and international relations according to CENSIS and the Italian Ministry of Education.
Luigi Mazzella is an Italian lawyer and former judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy (2005–2014).
The Venice Commission,officially European Commission for Democracy through Law,is an advisory body of the Council of Europe,composed of independent experts in the field of constitutional law. It was created in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall,at a time of urgent need for constitutional assistance in Central and Eastern Europe.
Giorgio Napolitano was an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 2006 to 2015,the first to be re-elected to the office. In office for 8 years and 244 days,he was the longest-serving president,until the record was surpassed by Sergio Mattarella in 2023. He also was the longest-lived president in the history of the Italian Republic,which has been in existence since 1946. Although he was a prominent figure of the First Italian Republic,he did not take part in the Constituent Assembly of Italy that drafted the Italian constitution;he is considered one of the symbols of the Second Italian Republic,which came about after the Tangentopoli scandal of the 1990s. Due to his dominant position in Italian politics,some critics have sometimes referred to him as Re Giorgio.
Catherine "Kate" O'Regan is a former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. From 2013 to 2014 she was a commissioner of the Khayelitsha Commission and is now the inaugural director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford.
Daphne Barak-Erez is an Israeli law professor. Since May 2012,she serves as a judge in the Supreme Court of Israel.
Angelika Helene Anna Nußberger is a German professor of law and scholar of Slavic studies,and was the judge in respect of Germany at the European Court of Human Rights from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2019;from 2017 to 2019 she was the Court’s Vice-President. She had previously been Vice-Rector of the University of Cologne. Currently she is Director of the Institute of Eastern European Law and Comparative Law of the University of Cologne.
Jasna Omejec is a Croatian jurist who served as the 4th President of the Constitutional Court of Croatia. She was the first woman to have held the position. Since 1990,Omejec is a professor at the Chair of Administrative Law of the Zagreb Faculty of Law.
Geoffrey Arthur Akeroyd Nettle is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia,the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy,who served from 3 February 2015 to 30 November 2020. Prior to his appointment to the High Court,he served as a judge at the Court of Appeal,Supreme Court of Victoria,where he presided from June 2004 to 2015.
Elena Cattaneo is an Italian pharmacologist and co-founding director of the University of Milan's Center for Stem Cell Research.
Paolo Grossi was an Italian judge. He was President of the Constitutional Court of Italy between 24 February 2016 and 23 February 2018. Grossi served as Judge on the Court from 23 February 2009 to 23 February 2018.
Marta Cartabia is an Italian jurist and academic who served as Minister of Justice in the government of Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
Silvana Sciarra is an Italian jurist and academic. She served as a judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy from November 2014 to November 2023 and served as its president from 20 September 2022 to 11 November 2023.
NicolòZanon is an Italian judge and law professor. He has been Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy from 11 November 2014 to 11 November 2023. Previously he was a law professor at the University of Milan.
Maria Rosaria San Giorgio is an Italian magistrate,Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy since 2020.
