Silvana Sciarra | |
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President of the Constitutional Court of Italy | |
In office 20 September 2022 –11 November 2023 | |
Preceded by | Giuliano Amato |
Succeeded by | Augusto Barbera |
Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy | |
In office 11 November 2014 –11 November 2023 | |
Appointed by | Italian Parliament |
Personal details | |
Born | Trani,Apulia,Italy | 24 July 1948
Alma mater | University of Bari |
Profession | University professor |
Silvana Sciarra (born 24 July 1948) 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.
Sciarra was born in Trani. She taught European Labour and Social Law at the European University Institute between 1994 and 2003. She was a professor of labour law at the University of Florence and the University of Siena 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. [1] She was sworn in on 11 November 2014. [2]
She is the first woman elected by the Italian Parliament as a judge of the Constitutional Court. Previously,she was a Harkness Fellow at UCLA and Harvard Law School (1974-1976). She was a Fulbright Fellow and visiting professor at 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 a Ph.D. Honoris Causa in law at the universities of Stockholm (2006) and Hasselt (2012). [3]
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