Silvana Sciarra

SILVANA SCIARRA holds a Law degree magna cum laude from the University of Bari under the supervision of Gino Giugni.
She is professor of Labour Law and Comparative Labour Law at the School of Law, University of Florence (Chair Jean Monnet). She has visited and taught in several universities, among which UCLA, Harvard Law School (Harkness Fellow e Fulbright Fellow), Warwick University (Leverhulme Professor), Columbia Law School (BNL Professor), Cambridge University (Arthur Goodhart Professor in Legal Science), Stockholm University (Visiting Professor), and Lund University (Visiting Professor). From 1994 to 2003 she has taught European Labour and Social Law at the European University Institute, where she has presided over the Law Department (1995-96) and the Gender Studies Programme (2002-2003). She is a member of the editorial board of the European Law Journal, European Journal of Social Law, Sociologia del diritto,and Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal.
She has taken part in several projects dealing with Comparative Labor Law for the European Commission, in which she has coordinated groups of academics and experts coming from all the EU Member States. She has been granted honorary degrees by the University of Stockholm and the University of Hasselt.
She has been Justice of the Italian Constitutional Court since 11 November 2014, being the fifth woman but the first elected by the two joined Chambers of the Parliament.