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Member, President of the Venice Commission
Marta CARTABIA

Full Professor of Constitutional Law

President Emerita of the Italian Constitutional Court

Former Minister of Justice

 

CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION

2020 –                               Bocconi University of Milan, Full professor of Constitutional Law and since 2024 Dean for Social Engagement

 

INSTITUTIONAL POSITIONS

 

2021 – 2022                         

 Minister of Justice of the Italian Republic in the Draghi government
2017 –

European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) – Council of Europe:

- Vice President

- Member (2021 –)

- Substitute member for Italy (2017-2021)
2011 – 2020

Italian Constitutional Court:

- President (2019-2020)

- Vice President (2014-2019)

- Judge, appointed by the President of the Italian Republic, (2011-2020)
2008 – 2010 Senior expert of FRALEX – Fundamental Rights Agency Legal Experts, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna

 

EDUCATION

1993              PhD in Law, European University Institute, Florence
1987 Law degree, University of Milan, magna cum laude

 

ACADEMIC AND CIVIC HONORS

2011                      Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
2022 Knight Grand Cross of the Equestrian Order of Saint Agatha, Republic of San Marino
2022 Honorary Doctorate in Law, Complutense University of Madrid
2020 Honorary Doctorate in Law, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
2020 Marisa Bellisario Award
2020 Giovanni Spadolini Award
2019 Anna Maria Mammoliti Prize

 

ACADEMIC & SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS AND LEARNED SOCIETIES

2024 -                 European Law Unbound Society, (ELU-S), founding member and Advisory Council
2014 –

International Society of Public Law (ICON•S)

- Co-President (2021-2024)

- Council member (2017 –)

- Founding member
2017 –

Italian Chapter of ICON•S

- Co-President (2017-2021)

- Founder and Member of the Council
2020 – European Law Institute (ELI), Member of the Senate
2023 – National Research Council (CNR), Research Ethics and Integrity Committee, Member
2021 –

International Balzan Prize Committee

- President (2024 –)

- Member of the General Prize Committee
2021 – Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Ordinary Academician

 

EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

2021 -               «Quaderni costituzionali», il Mulino, Co-editor in chief
2009 – «Italian Journal of Public Law», founder and co-editor in chief
2019 – «International Journal of Constitutional Law» (I•CON), Advisory Board
2016 – «Rivista dell’Associazione Italiana dei Costituzionalisti», Scientific board
2016 – «European Constitutional Law Review», Advisory board

 

RECENT BOOKS

- M. CARTABIA, S. GRANATA-MENGHINI, A. NUSSBERGER, D. PARIS (eds.), Democracy Through Law in Troubled Times - The Venice commission 1990-2025, Hart, forthcoming, 2026

-  M. CARTABIA, Custodi della democrazia. La Costituzione, le corti e i confini del politico, EGEA, Milano, 2026

- M. CARTABIA, M. RUOTOLO (a cura di), Potere e Costituzione – Enciclopedia del Diritto – I tematici, vol. V-2023, Giuffrè, Milano, 2023

- M. CARTABIA, N. LUPO, The Constitution of Italy. A Contextual Analysis, Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2022

- M. CARTABIA, L. VIOLANTE, Giustizia e mito. Con Edipo, Antigone e Creonte, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2018

- V. BARSOTTI, P. CAROZZA, M. CARTABIA e A. SIMONCINI, Italian Constitutional Justice in Global Context, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015

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