Human Rights vs. Democracy

Pietro Faraguna

Associate professor of constitutional law at the University of Trieste

Pietro Faraguna is currently (2022) associate professor of constitutional law at the University of Trieste. Since 2020, he serves as a clerk at the Constitutional Court of Italy. Previously, he has been post-doctoral research fellow at the LUISS University of Rome, Ferrara, and Udine. In the academic year 2014-15, he has been Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center of the New York University | School of Law. His research interests cover a wide area in the field of public law, including European constitutionalism, electoral law, affirmative actions and non-discrimination, theory of bicameralism, religious freedom, comparative constitutional law and legal theory. His main research focus is the exploration of national constitutional identity in Italy and Europe. He authored or co-authored academic publications on major national and international law journals (among these: Common Market Law Review, German Law Journal, International Journal of Constitutional Law, the European Journal of Constitutional Law) and published a monograph on constitutional identity in Italy and Europe.