MARTA CARTABIA is an Italian constitutional lawyer. She graduated in Law at the University of Milan in 1987 with a thesis about European Constituional law. Gained her PhD in Law at the European University Institute, she then studied Comparative Constitutional Law in Aix-en-Provence. Since 2004, she has been teaching Constitutional Law at the University of Milan-Bicocca. She was Inaugural Fellow at the Strauss Institute for Advanced Studies in Law and Justice (New York University) and she is member of many important associations, among which the Italian Association of Constitutionalists and the International Constitutional Law Society (ICON-S).
In November 2011 she was nominated Justice of the Italian Constitutional Court by the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, being the third woman.
Marta Cartabia has written and edited several books. The most important ones are about European citizenship, the fundamental rights in Europe, Italian constitutional adjudication and democracy in the XXIst century.
