COSTANZA MARGIOTTA BROGLIO MASSUCCI

I corsi della professoressa Costanza Margiotta si terranno nel primo semestre dell'anno accademico 2026/27.
Per qualsiasi informazione si prega di scrivere a costanza.margiotta@uniroma1.it

Academic Affiliation

Since 2 February 2026: Full Professor of Philosophy of Law (GIUR-17/A) at the Department of Political Science, Sapienza University of Rome.

Other Academic Affiliations
Since June 2023: Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance and Dispute Resolution (CIGAD), King’s College London
Since 2022: Member of the Board of Researchers of the Marx and Marxisms Research Centre, University of Padua
Since 2008: Member of the Italian Society for Philosophy of Law.

Previous Academic Affiliations
1997–1998: Research fellowship for advanced studies abroad granted by the University of Bologna for the academic year 1997–1998, carried out at the DEA de Théorie Générale & Philosophie du droit, directed by Prof. Michel Troper, at the University of Paris X.
1 April 2002 – 31 August 2003: Research fellow at the “Roberto Ruffilli” Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna, Forlì campus.
1 April 2002 – 30 September 2003: Teaching assistant in “History of Political Doctrines” and “Globalization and Politics” at the “Roberto Ruffilli” Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna, Forlì campus.
September 2003 – September 2005: Research fellow (“Avv. Giovanni Ferrari” fellowship for research on “Principles and Theory of Law”) at the Department of Legal and Social Studies, University of Parma (Prof. Gianluigi Palombella).
September 2003 – September 2005: Teaching assistant in “Philosophy of Law”, “General Theory of Law”, and “Sociology of Law” at the Faculty of Law, University of Parma.
Academic years 2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2006/2007 and 2007/2008: Tutor in “History of Political Doctrines”, Degree Programme in International and Diplomatic Sciences, “Roberto Ruffilli” Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna, Forlì campus.
January 2006 – October 2006: Nine-month research collaboration contract with the Department of Politics, Institutions and History, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna, within the PRIN2004 national research project “Processes of Crisis in Contemporary Democracy: Community, Multiculturalism, Disobedience. With Critical Editions of Texts”, for the translation and editing of texts by John C. Calhoun.
1 January 2006 – December 2006: Research fellow of the Luigi Firpo Foundation in Turin, with a project entitled “John C. Calhoun and the Emancipation of Slaves”.
July 2006 – July 2008: Holder of a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Italian Institute of Human Sciences, with a project entitled “Profiles of Methodology of International Legal Science”.
1 November 2008 – 15 January 2015: Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Law (IUS/20) at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Padua (now Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies).
15 January 2015 – 1 August 2024: Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law (IUS/20), Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padua.
1 August 2024 – 2 February 2026: Full Professor of Philosophy of Law (GIUR-17/A), Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padua.

Education and Academic Training
1991–1997: Degree programme in Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy, University of Bologna.
15 July 1997: Degree in Philosophy, University of Bologna, summa cum laude (110/110 cum laude).
1997–1998: Enrolled in the DEA de Théorie Générale & Philosophie du droit, directed by Prof. Michel Troper, at the University of Paris X – Nanterre.
1998–2002: PhD in Law at the European University Institute. Supervisor: Prof. Massimo La Torre.

National Scientific Qualifications
4 April 2018: National Scientific Qualification for Full Professorship in Philosophy of Law (ASN 2016).
December 2013: National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professorship in Philosophy of Law.

Teaching Activity
2019–2026: Courses taught at the University of Padua: “Philosophy of Law” (from which the course “General Theory of Law” was derived between 2019 and 2022), “Citizenship and Fundamental Rights”, and “Human Rights and International Justice” (taught in English since the academic year 2013–14).
2019–2020: “European and Global Citizenship” (in English), University of Padua.
2008–2019: “Fundamental Rights and European Citizenship” and “Human Rights and International Justice” (in English since 2013–14; previously “Human Rights and International Justice” in Italian from 2008 to 2013), University of Padua.
2008/2009: Lecturer for the course “Theory of International Law and War” at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna, Forlì campus.
2007/2008: Contract Professor at the University of Padua for the course “Fundamental Rights and European Citizenship”.
Institutional Roles and Other Professional Activities
Member of the PhD Board of the doctoral programme “Human Rights, Society, and Multi-level Governance”, coordinated by the University of Padua since the XXXI cycle (2015/16).
Member of the “Meneghelli” Comparative Law Library Commission (now Legal Sciences) since 2016.
Academic Coordinator for the Erasmus exchange programme between the University of Padua and the Université Libre de Bruxelles within the “Master EGALes” programme dedicated to gender studies.

Editorial Boards

Editorial Direction
“Ragion Pratica” (since 2025)
Editorial Board
“Filosofia Politica”
“Ars Interpretandi”
Editorial Staff
“Rivista di Filosofia del Diritto” (2015–2018)
Editorial and Advisory Board
“Storia, metodo e cultura nella scienza giuridica”
Scientific Committee
“Governare la Paura. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies”
“Consecutio Rerum. Rivista critica della Postmodernità”
Editorial Series Board
“Rifrazioni. Studi critici di storia della filosofia del diritto – dialoghi sui classici”, ETS Editions.

Awards
2006: Winner of the International Essay Prize “Salvatore Valitutti”, XIII edition, First Work Award, for the book L’ultimo diritto. Profili storici e teorici della secessione (Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005).

Participation in National and International Research Projects

Member of the PRIN 2003 national project at the University of Parma: “Trust and Law in the Information Society. Legal Promotion and Protection of Trust in Markets, Institutions and Technological Infrastructure” (two-year project).
Member of the PRIN 2005 national project at the University of Parma: “Liberty and Authority in Social Bodies and the State in the Modern and Contemporary Age” (two-year project).
Principal investigator of annual “ex-60%” (now DOR) research projects funded by the University of Padua since 2009, on topics including migration, citizenship, codification of international law, interpretation of treaties, and European citizenship.
Member of the 2011–2013 research project “Political Spaces and Times in Global Society. Postcolonial Studies and the Delocalization of Europe”, University of Padua.
Member of the PRIN 2009 national project “Legal Science, Interpretation and Legal Reasoning”.
Principal investigator of the 2014 University of Padua research project “European Union and Fundamental Rights in Times of Austerity” (PRAT funding with research fellowship).
Member of the PRIN 2015 project “Legal Subject and Vulnerability: Institutional Models and Transforming Legal Concepts”.
Participant in the 2017 interdepartmental research project “New Semantics of Violence. The Theoretical and Political Foundations of the Contemporary Debate on Terrorism”.
Principal investigator of the 2023 University of Padua BIRD project “Reconfiguring Liberties and Social Rights in Data-Centric Societies”.

Principal Publications:

Books:
- L’ultimo diritto. Profili storici e teorici della secessione, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2005
- La recezione di Kelsen nel dibattito italiano sulla democrazia costituzionale (1950-1980), Firenze, Le Lettere, 2005.
- Cittadinanza europea. Istruzioni per l’uso, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014.
- La lotta per la certezza: codificazione e interpretazione del diritto internazionale, Giappichelli, 2023.

Edited Books:
- John C. Calhoun, Secessione e libertà, introduzione, traduzione e cura di Costanza Margiotta, Torino, La Rosa, ottobre 2007.
- con M. Barberis ha curato, e scritto la presentazione, al fascicolo n. 35/ 2010 della rivista «Ragion pratica» su Schiavitù.
- Europa: diritto della crisi e crisi del diritto, a cura di Costanza Margiotta, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018.
- con C. Closa, G. Martinico, Between Democracy and Law. The Amorality of Secession, Routledge, 2019.
- con Giuseppe Duso curatela del numero 3/2019 of the Journal «Filosofia politica » on Secessione
- con Giuseppe Zaccaria, Discutere la Secessione. Storia, Politica, Diritto, Padova University Press, 2020).
- curatela del numero 1/2025 della rivista "Ars Interpretandi: “La natura del diritto internazionale”

Main essays:
- La corte costituzionale italiana e il modello kelseniano, in «Quaderni costituzionali», XX, 2, 2000, pp. 333-369.
- Bobbio e Matteucci su costituzionalismo e positivismo giuridico. Con una lettera di Norberto Bobbio a Nicola Matteucci, in «Materiali per una storia della cultura giuridica», XXX, 2, 2000, pp. 387-425.
- Quale Stato di diritto?, in «Teoria Politica», XVII, n.2/2001, pp. 17-41
- I diritti e l’inflazione dei soggetti, in «Filosofia politica», n. 3/2005, pp. 415-426.
- Suicidio, in Questioni di vita o di morte, a cura di Massimo La Torre, Marina Lalatta Costerbosa, Alberto Scerbo, Torino, Giappichelli, 2007, pp. 228-247.
- Quando la razza conta? Fra pratiche discriminatorie e trattamenti eguaglianti, in T. Casadei (a cura di), Società multiculturale e questioni razziali, Reggio Emilia, Edizioni Diabasis, 2007, pp. 132-142.
- Il diritto internazionale in bilico fra Stati, comunità internazionale e società civile globale, in «Teoria politica», n. 2, 2008, pp. 41-63.
- con O. Vonk, Nationality Law and European Citizenship: The Role of Dual Nationality, EUI Working Papers, RSCAS 2010/66, Robert Schuman Centre For Advanced Studies Eudo Citizenship Observatory, Settembre 2010.
- I giudici statunitensi di fronte alla schiavitù, in «Ragion pratica», n. 35, 2010, pp. 377-392.
- Per una teoria giuridica e "amorale" della secessione, in «Filosofia politica», 2019 (3), pp.411-428.
- An Update on Secession as the "Ultimate Right": for a Liminal Legality, in C. Closa, C. Margiotta, G. Martinico, Between Democracy and Law. The Amorality of Secession, Routledge, 2019, pp.9-29.
- «Ricchi e poveri» alla prova della cittadinanza europea. Annotazioni sulla «Relazione della Commissione europea sui programmi di cittadinanza per investitori», in «Ragion Pratica», 3, 2020, pp. 513-531
- Codificare regole interpretative: la specificità dell’ordinamento giuridico internazionale, in «Ars Interpretandi», 1/2020, pp. 69-84
- Secession in Law: A Revolutionary or a Conservative Concept?, in M. Belov (ed.), Territorial Politics and Secession, Constitutional and International Law Dimensions, Palgrave, 2021, pp. 45-57.
- Cittadinanza, in C. Caruso, C. Valentini (a cura di), Grammatica del costituzionalismo, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2021, pp. 239-254.
- As if applied: international rules of interpretation, in 1/2024 «Notizie di politeia», pp. 14-24
- Hans Kelsen tra Norberto Bobbio e Galvano della Volpe, 1/2024 di «Ars interpretandi»
- con Federico Ortino: Treaty interpretation, Multilinguism, and the WTO Dispute Settlement System: Towards the Comparative Translation Paradigm?, in «Journal of International Dispute Settlement», Vol. 15 Issue 4, 2024, pp. 487–505
- con Tommaso Greco, Nicola Matteucci e Norberto Bobbio: un dibattito (mancato?), in «Filosofia politica», 2/2024, pp. pp. 209-222