Affiliations

·        SIPE (Societas Iuris Publici Europaei) (www.uni-potsdam.de/sipe-office/)

·       Board of Directors of the International Association of Centers for Federal Studies (IACFS) (www.iacfs.org)

·        Association Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo (http://dpce.ulisse.it/DPCE_Home.html?1)

·        German-Italian Lawyers Association (Deutsch-italienische Juristenvereinigung, http://www.dijv.org/)

·       Vicepresident of the Euroregional association of public and European comparative law (http://www.jus-euroregionale.org/)

·       Executive board of the association "Devolution Club" (www.devolutionclub.it)

·      Scientific committee of the Alexander Langer Foundation (www.alexanderlanger.org)

·      Board of the PhD course in Italian and European Constitutional Law, University of Verona (in cooperation with Universities of Milan, Insubria, Brescia, Como) http://www.dsg.univr.it/dol/main?ent=cs&id=158&lang=it

·        Scientific board of the on line review "European Diversity and Autonomy Papers" (www.eurac.edu/edap)

·      Editorial board of the reviews: Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo (http://dpce.ulisse.it/DPCE_Home.html?1), Quaderni costituzionali (http://www.mulino.it/edizioni/riviste/scheda_rivista.php?issn=0392-6664 "cronache dall'estero" – Germany and Austria), La causa dei popoli (http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/revues/causadeipopoli)

·     Rete di eccellenza dell'italiano istituzionale (REI) (http://www.ittig.cnr.it/Rei.html)

·       Transjus – Laboratorio di comparazione, linguistica e traduzione giuridica – Università di Trento (http://www.jus.unitn.it/transjus/home.html)

·        Bar association, Bolzano (http://www.ordineavvocati.bz.it/)

·        Association of journalist of Trentino-Alto Adige (www.media-tnbz.it)

Education and Work Experience

Since September 2007 Spring Semester 2007	Senior Legal Advisor, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities   Visiting Professor, Vergleichendes Verfassungsrecht, Universität Zürich (Federalism and Minority Protection - in German)
since April 2007	Member of the Advisory Committe under the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (click here)
September 2006	Visiting Professor, Vermont Law School, USA (European Union Law)
June 2006	Visiting Professor, University of Regensburg (Course on Italian Constitutional Law - in German)
August-September 2005	Visiting Professor, Vermont Law School, USA (Constitutional Law of the European Union / Comparative Law)
Since November 2004	Director, Institute for Studies on Regionalism and Federalism (SFeRe), European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen
September 2004	Visiting Professor, Vermont Law School, USA (Constitutional Law of the European Union / Comparative Law)
March-July 2004	EU short term expert "Re-enforcement of the Rule of Law in the Western Balkans"
January-February 2004	Visiting Professor, Vermont Law School, USA (Constitutional Law of the European Union)
2003-2007	Adjunct Professor of Comparative and International Law, Vermont Law School, USA
Since March 2003	Associate Professor, Comparative Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Verona
2003-2007	Lecturer, Comparative Constitutional Law – Advanced Course – Law of Minorities and Groups, Faculty of Law, University of Trento
Academic Year 2002-2003	Lecturer, Comparative Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Verona Lecturer, Comparative Constitutional Law – Advanced Course – Law of Minorities and Groups, Faculty of Law, University of Trento
January 2003	Visiting Professor, Vermont Law School, USA (Constitutional Law of the European Union)
February-June 2002	EU expert for legal drafting – Common Institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Academic Year 2001-2002	Lecturer, Comparative Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Verona
January 2002	Visiting Professor, Vermont Law School, USA (Constitutional Law of the European Union)
August 2001	Visiting fellow, Cambridge Law School, UK
January-February 2001	Visiting Professor, Vermont Law School, USA (Constitutional Law of the European Union)
Since July 2000	Columnist for the dailies "L'Adige" and "Il Mattino di Bolzano e Provincia" – since September 2001 for the dailies Alto Adige and Il Trentino
March-May 2000	Visiting Scholar, Vermont Law School, USA
Since October 1999	Senior researcher at the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen; Responsible for research activities of the department and project co-ordinator "Constitutional issues"
1999-2002	Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Trento (Pluralism and European Constitutional Law)
May 1999	Bar Exam – Admission as a Lawyer, Court of Bolzano
December 1998	PhD in Law, University of Innsbruck. PhD thesis: "Die Außenbeziehungen der italienischen Regionen in rechtsvergleichender Sicht"
February 1995	Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Trento, Comparative and Italian Constitutional Law
since October 1994	Researcher at the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen; research area "Ethnic Minorities and Regional Autonomies"
June 1994	Degree in Law, University of Trento. Degree thesis: "Federalismo e bicameralismo in Germania ed Austria"
11/1992 – 11/1993	Civil service as a conscientious objector at the CISL-SGB trade union in Bolzano; research activity in legal issues
August 1992	Certificate of bilingualism in German and Italian ("A") for the Province of Bolzano
1991-92	Research activity, University of Trier (Federalism in Germany and Italy)
1990-91	Erasmus-Student University of Trier (Germany)
1988	High School Degree, Liceo Classico, Merano

 Last update: July 20^th, 2007