ALESSANDRA DI MARTINO

Alessandra Di Martino is Full Professor in Comparative Public Law at the University of Rome Sapienza, School of Law. She was Associate Professor from 2019 to 2022 and Researcher from 2011 to 2018. She holds a Degree in Law (hons., 2002) and a PhD in Theory of State and Political Comparative Institutions (2007) from Sapienza University, as well as an LL.M. in German and European Constitutional Law from Humboldt University in Berlin (hons., 2004). She was Research Fellow in Comparative Public Law at the University of Siena (2006-2010) and visiting scholar at Columbia Law School, New York (Fall Term 2014). She is qualified to practice the legal profession and is registered with the Rome Bar Association.
Prof. Di Martino teaches Comparative Public Law, Comparative Public Law and European Law and Comparative Fundamental Rights at Sapienza University, School of Law (the second course with F. Saitto). She is member of the teaching body for the PhD course in Public Law. At the same University, she has lectured on Public Law in the Light of European Experience, Landmark Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court on Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, The European Protection of Human Rights in Europe. She also lectured on Constitutionalism and Globalization as well as Privacy and Freedom of Information at the University of Siena (2007-2008). In 2023 she delivered lectures on Comparative Constitutionalism and Climate Litigation at the University of La Habana.
She was coordinator of University projects on The Work of Konrad Hesse, Constitutional Courts and Democracy, Constitutional Adjudication and Preliminary Ruling, and The Dimensions of Fundamental Rights. She coordinated a project with E. Olivito on Generations of Fundamental Rights and Female Subjectivity. She is now coordinator of a project on Constitutional Comparison and Legal Transplants: Method and Practice between Constitutional Cultures, Global Spaces and Statehood and coordinator of a research unit in a 2022 PRIN on Framing National Human Rights Institutions: European and Comparative Interplays. In addition, she has taken part in several national and international research projects on Fundamental Rights, Democratic Constitutionalism and Economic Crisis, State Security and Constitutionalism, Statehood and Supranational Constitutionalism, the Making of Italian Constitution and Political Culture, Corruption in the Public Sector of the EU Member States (the latter financed by the European Commission and coordinated by Düsseldorf University’s Istitut für Parteienforschung in 2006-2007).
Prof. Di Martino has taken part in national and international seminars and conferences.
She was member of the editorial board of the web Journal of the Association of Italian Constitutional Lawyers (2004-2009); she is now co-editor of Rivista di Diritti Comparati and on the board of direction of Nomos: Le attualità del diritto. She is member of the scientific committee of Athena. Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization.
She is fluent in German and English, with a good knowledge of French, Spanish and Portuguese.
She spent short research stays at Humboldt University (Berlin), Max Planck Institut für Ausländisches Recht und Völkerrecht (Heidelberg) University of Chicago-Law School (Chicago, Illinois) and Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (London).
She is a member of the Italian Association of Constitutional Lawyers, the Association of Comparative Public Law and European Law (DPCE), the Italian Association of Comparative Law (AIDC) and the Gruppo di Pisa Association. She is member of the Kuratorium of Dimitris-Tsatsos-Institut für Europäische Verfassungswissenschaften, Hagen, Germany.
Prof. Di Martino has written books on Feminist Thought and Technologies. Self-Determination, Health and Dignity (Pensiero femminista e tecnologie riproduttive. Autodeterminazione, salute, dignità, Mimesis, 2020, pp. 207); Constitutional Privacy in Europe and the United States (Profili costituzionali della privacy in Europa e negli Stati Uniti, Napoli, Jovene, 2017, pp. 405), Dissenting Opinions in Constitutional Courts (Le opinioni dissenzienti dei giudici costituzionali. Uno studio comparativo, Napoli, Jovene, 2016, pp. 577), Territory as a Constitutional Topic (Il territorio: dallo Stato-nazione alla globalizzazione, Milano, Giuffrè, 2010, pp. 600); Data Protection in European Law (Datenschutz im Europäischen Recht, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2005, pp. 104). She also co-edited a book on the writings of Konrad Hesse (L’unità della costituzione. Scritti scelti di Konrad Hesse, Napoli, ES, 2014, with G. Repetto), the volume Generations of Fundamental Rights and Female Subjectivity (Generazioni dei diritti fondamentali e soggettività femminile, Napoli, ES, 2022, with E. Olivito, and the volume The Alternative Use of Law. A Comparison of Critical Perspectives (L’uso alternativo del diritto. Un confronto di prospettive critiche, ES, 2024). She has also authored numerous articles and essays in the field of Public Comparative Law, with particular regard to the subjects of Constitutional History, Territory and Federalism, European Constitutional Law, Constitutional Adjudication, Fundamental Rights, Forms of Government, Feminism and Constitutional Law, the Method of Comparative Law and Critical Theories of Law.