Arianna Vedaschi
I am Full Professor of Comparative Public Law at Bocconi University. Coordinator of the Research Group on Constitutional Responses to Terrorism within the International Association of Constitutional Law. Member of the Steering Committee of the Associazione Italiana di Diritto Comparato. Secretary-General of the Italian Association of Comparative and European Public Law. Vice-Director of the law review Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo. Member of Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé/International Academy of Comparative Law. Member of the Scientific Board of “Comparative Covid Law”, focused on legal responses to Covid-19 worldwide. Visiting professor in several prestigious universities and academic institutions in Europe, the United States and Latin America.
I have been appointed General Rapporteur of the International Academy of Comparative Law for the 2022 General Congress on the topic “Governmental policies to fight pandemics. Defining the boundaries of legitimate limitations on fundamental freedoms”. The Congress was held in Asunción, Paraguay, on October 23-28, 2022.
The book “9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law: How the UN Security Council Rules the World”, edited by Kim Lane Scheppele and me, has recently been published by Cambridge University Press (2021).
I am now member of the Steering Committee of the Associazione Italiana di Diritto Comparato.
I have been appointed as a member of the Scientific Committee of Fondazione Med-Or – Leonardo SPA.
Comparative Public Law
European and Comparative Constitutional Law
Human Rights
Emergency Powers
Counter-Terrorism
Public Health Emergencies
Artificial Intelligence
My research works have been conferred several Bocconi Research Excellence Awards (2019; 2013; 2012; 2011; 2008).
The dark side of counter-terrorism: arcana imperii and salus rei publicae
THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW, 2018Humiliation of terrorism victims: is human dignity becoming a ‘National Security Tool’?
Human dignity and human security in times of terrorism, 2020Privacy versus Security: regulating data collection and retention in Europe
Security and Human Rights, 2019The European Court of Justice on the EU-Canada passenger name record agreement
EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW REVIEW, 2018Privacy and data protection vs. national security in transnational flights: the EU-Canada PNR agreement
INTERNATIONAL DATA PRIVACY LAW, 2018Since 1999 I have been teaching a wide range of courses addressing comparative public law, public law and constitutional law at Bocconi University.
Since a.y. 2020/2021 I have been the course director of Public Law (30004).
In a.y. 2018/2019 I received the Bocconi “Innovation in Teaching Awards”, thanks to innovative teaching methods (based on case-studies, interactive tools, high involvement of students) applied in the Constitutional Justice (50098) and Comparative Public Law (50096) courses.