CESARE PINELLI graduated in Law cum laude atthe University of Rome Sapienza in 1976, where he has been full professor in Constitutional and Public Law since 1990. Involved in several ministerial commissions to study legislative reforms (Ministry for EU Policies; Ministry of Defense; Ministry of Justice; Ministry of Regional Affairs; Ministry for the Public Administration), he is on the board of the Italian Association of Constitutional Scholars(AIC) and of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL). As a young scholar, he has servedas a law clerk for the Italian Constitutional Court and lateras an expert on the Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) of the Council of Europe. He is the editor in chief of Diritto pubblico and in the scientific board of Italiani europei, Giurisprudenza costituzionale, Rivista di diritto costituzionale. Among his many publications (he has written five books and more than two hundred articles), he is also the author of a renowned Comparative Constitutional Law textbook, Forme di Stato e forme di governo.
