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Italian judge (born 1948) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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 |
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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