Current Position: Full Professor in Administrative Law, Faculty of Law ,Dept. of Legal Studies,University “of Ferrara

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

2005: Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1995: PhD in Public Law, University of Bologna. Thesis title: “The Administrative Procedural Act and Communication of Administrative Decisions”
1995:Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College of London
1990:Degree in Law, cum laude, University of Bologna

PERMANENT/CONTRACT POSITIONS

- Full Professor of Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ferrara;
- Permanent Professor of Administrative Law at the School of Specialization in Public Administration Studies (SP.I.S.A.), University of Bologna;
- Scientific Director of the Journal “Le Istituzioni del Federalismo”;
- Ordinary Member of the Academy of Sciences of Ferrara;
- Commissioner for National Scientific Qualification (ASN) 2023/25
- Ombudsman of the Emilia-Romagna Region from 2013 to 2018;
- President of the Regional Communications Committee (CORECOM) of Emilia-Romagna from 2008 to 2013


SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

-2025- Speaker at the conference “Crisis of constitutional democracy and the rule of law”, University of Florence, 4 July 2025
-2025- Speaker at the conference “Artificial intelligence for the quality of laws”, Legislative Assembly of the Emilia-Romagna Region, 30 June 2025
-2025- Speaker at the conference “Local authorities in the administrative system”, SPISA, University of Bologna, 26 June 2025
-2025 – Speaker at the conference “Politics and administration tested by digital challenges:
the protections offered by EU law”, held at the Sapienza University, 27 June 2025
-2025 - Speaker at the final conference of PRIN 2022 “Next Generation PA: Digital Transformation For An Innovative Public Administration-Nappa” (F53D23003360006), held in Ferrara, 26-27 May 2025
-2025 - Speaker at the third conference of the Red Académica Internacional de Control de la Administración (RAICA), held in Ferrara, 26 May 2025
-2024 - Speaker at the conference entitled “Information and democracy, between powers and rights. The challenges of the 21st century”, organized by the Gruppo San Martino, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 29 November 2024
-2024 - Speaker at the seminar entitled “The implementation of differentiated autonomy and the state of health of Italian regionalism”, at the Senate of the Republic, Sala Caduti di Nasiriyah, November 27, 2024
-2024 – Speaker at the conference entitled “The eternal transition of the Province: a brief history of an unfinished institution. A comparison between Italy and Spain" within the framework of the Institutional Chair of the University-Principado and the Royal Asturiana Academy of Law, October 30, 2024.
-2024 - Speaker at the seminar organized by the Ministry of the Interior entitled “The future of municipalities, provinces and metropolitan cities”, Catanzaro, September 23, 2024
-2024 – Member of the Scientific Committee of the Journal of Market Regulation
-2024 - Speaker at the XXV International Conferences on Administrative Law, at the Externado University of Colombia, Santafé de Bogotá, September 4-7, 2024
-2024 - Speaker at the second conference of the Red Académica Internacional de Control de la Administración (RAICA), held in Bogota, September 3, 2024
-2024 - Ordinary member of the Academy of Sciences of Ferrara
-2023 - Commissioner for National Scientific Qualification (ASN) 2023-2025
-2023 - Participation as chairman at the first conference of the Red Académica Internacional de Control de la Administración (RAICA), held in Madrid, October 20, 2023
-2023 - Participation in the three-year research project Proyecto I+D "Ciudades cuidadoras. Competencias y formas de gestión de los servicios de atención a las personas en las grandes áreas urbanas" (CC – COFOGESP), funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia and Spanish Innovation and coordinated by the University of Barcelona.
-2023 - Principal investigator of the PRIN 2022 “Next Generation PA: The digital transition for an innovative PA”, in which the Universities of Ferrara, Trieste, Chieti-Pescara participate
-2023- Speaker at the Conference in honor of Eduardo García de Enterría for the centenary of his birth, Bologna, 9-10 June 2023
-2023- Member of the International Academy of Administrative Control (RAICA)
-2023. Speaker at the Jornada sobre la ley de protección al denunciante, Fundación Democracia y gobierno local, Diputación de Barcelona, ​​1° June 2023
-2022-2023 – Presentation of the volume “L’Amministrazione regionale (of which he is the author together with Claudia Tubertini) at the Universities of Milano Cattolica, Perugia, Trieste. Malaga, Pescara, Barcelona.
-2023 – Speaker at the seminar on “Transparencia, acceso y buena administración: una comparación entre Italia y España”, Fundación Democracia y gobierno local, Diputación de Barcelona, ​​21 April 2023
-2023 – Speaker at the seminar “Projects of different regionalism: la lección española”, Universidad de Lerida, 14 March 2023.
-2023 - Speaker at the seminar on “El Estado autonómico en Italia y España”, Universidad de Granada, 15 February 2023
-2023 – Inaugural lesson of the Maestría en Derecho Administrativo y Gobierno y Desarrollo de las Entidades Territoriales, entitled “Transparencia y acceso a la public information”, External University of Colombia, 2 February 2023
-2023 - Member of the Consejo de Editora del Anuario de Derecho Administrativo Sancionador
-2020-2023 – Speaker at the Seminarios de Profesores de Derecho Administrativo de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP)
-2021-2023 – Participation in the three-year research project (and related progress seminars) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Proyecto I+D “Hacia un mejor control de la contratación pública local: los tribunals administrativos de recursos contractuales como órganos cuasi jurisdiccionales
- 2022 - Partecipation in the official activity of GRECO - 5th Round Evaluation visit to Austria, Vienna, 20-24 June 2022
- 2022- Speaker at XXIII Italo-Spanish Congresso of Professors of Administrative Law, Santiago de Compostela, 25-28 maggio 2022
- 2020 - Professor of Administrative Law, Master in Administrative Law of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
- 2020: Speaker at the XV Congress AEPDA (Asociación Española de Profesores de Derecho Administrativo), Ibiza, February 7-8, 2020.
- 2019- at present: Member of the Scientific Board of the Journal "Diritto Pubblico", il Mulino
- 2019 - Member of the Instituto Internacional de Derecho Administrativo (IIDA)
- 2019 - Speaker at the XX Jornadas Internacionales de Derecho administrativo, presso l’Università Externado de Colombia, Santafe de Bogota, 4th September 2019
- 2019 - Speaker at the XXV encuentro de Jurisdicciòn de lo Contencioso Administrativo, organizzato dal Consejo de Estado de Colombia, Santa Marta, 6th September 2019
- 2018 - Speaker at the Internacional Seminar "Nuevo Derecho Urbanistico", Universidad de La Laguna, 16th November 2018
- 2018: Italian National Expert within the Twinning Project “Prevention and Fight against Corruption” with the Serbian Republic
- 2018 - at present: ViceDirector of the Master in Public Procurement and Anticorruption, University of Ferrara
- 2017 - 2020 - Member of the Research Proyect "Nuevo Derecho Urbanìstico: simplificacion, sostenibilidad, rehabilitaciòn" (DER2017-84387-P) , financed by Agencia Estatal de Investigaciòn, Spain
– 2017: Speaker at the I Seminario Internacional de Derecho Administrativo “Nuevas perspectivas en la tutela de los ciudadanos frente a las Administraciones Públicas”, University of Oviedo, 10 november 2017
- 2017 - at present: Italian National Expert for GRECO (Group d'Etats contre la corruption)
- 2016: Speaker at the XVII Jornadas Internacionales de Derecho Administrativo “El derecho administrativo para la paz”, University of Externado de Colombia, Santafé de Bogota
- 2014-2016: Chief Advisor (with E. Chiti e A. Sandulli) of the research group "Unità e pluralismo culturale" within the editorial project "A 150 anni dall'unificazione amministrativa italiana", edited by L. Ferrara, D. Sorace
- 2013- 2018: Regional Ombudsman (Difensore civico regionale)
Emilia-Romagna Region
- 2012-2015: Vice Director Department of Legal Studies - University of Ferrara
2012 - at present: Co-director (together with M. Bombardelli, S. Civitarese, L.Ferrara, A. Pioggia, F. Bilancia) of the editorial series "Orizzonti del diritto pubblico", published by Maggioli
- 2010 - at present: Director of the law Journal "Istituzioni del federalismo"
- 2008-2013: President of the Regional Communication Commission, Regione Emilia Romagna
- 2008 - at present: Full Professor of Administrative Law, University of Ferrara
- 2005: Full Professor of Administrative Law, University “Gabriele D’Annunzio”, Chieti-Pescara
- 2005-2009: Professor of Health Service Law, On Line University “L. Da Vinci”, Chieti-Pescara
- 1999-2010:Professor of Media and Communications Law, University of Bologna
- 2004 - 2010: Professor of Media and Broadcasting Law, Master in Media Management “Campus Multimedia”, University of Bologna-Mediaset Milano
- 2003-2005: Professor of Media Law, Master in Public and Institutional Relations, AlmaWeb Graduate School, University of Bologna
- 2001-2005: Senior Lecturer of Administrative Law, Faculty of Economics, University “Gabriele D’Annunzio”, Chieti-Pescara
- 2001-2009: Professor of Local Government Law, Post Graduate School of Administrative Law, University of Bologna
- 2002-2004: Professor of Administrative Law, Master in Business Law, University “Gabriele D’Annunzio”, Chieti-Pescara
- 2001-2012: Director of Master in Media Law and Management “Campus Multimedia”, University of Bologna-Mediaset Milano
- 1999-2003: Professor of Administrative Law, Post Graduate School of Medicine and Health
- 1999-2003: Professor of Administrative Law, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Law, University of Bologna
- 2002: Professor of Environmental Law, University “Gabriele D’Annunzio”, Chieti-Pescara
- 2000-2002: Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the School of Development, Innovation and Change, OECD Development Centre, University of Bologna
- 1999-2001: Professor of Administrative Law, School of Public Administration, Government
- 1997-2001. Professor of Administrative Law, Post Graduate School for State Magistrature
- 1997-2000: Lecturer of Administrative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Bologna

Visiting Positions

2018: Profesor invitado at the University "Carlos III" of Madrid
1998 - 2016: Visiting Professor, University "Externado de Colombia", Santafé de Bogotà, Colombia
2005: Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2002-2003:Visting Professor :
University of Barcelona;
University Carlo III of Madrid;
University of Lleida.
1995-1996: Visiting Research Fellow, King's College of London, UK

Committee Memberships

2018 - present: Member of the Scientific Board of the Law Journal Studium Iuris, Cedam
2017 - Present: Member of the Editorial Board of the Law Journal “Revista de Aministracìon Local y Autònomica” (REALA), Spain
2012- present: Director (with F. Bilancia, M. Bombardelli, S. Civitarese, L. Ferrara, A. Pioggia) of the scientific editorial series "Orizzonti del diritto pubblico", published by Maggioli
2012-2015: Member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Association of Administrative Law Professors (A.I.P.D.A.)
2014 - present: Member of the Scientific Board of the “Anuario de la Función Publica”, Universidad de Piura e IJ Editores, Peru
2010 - present: Director of the Law Journal "Istituzioni del Federalismo", Italy
2005-2010: Member of the Scientific Board, Campus Multimedia Association, University IULM of Milano
2001-2005: Member of the Board Assessment, PhD Course in Public Law, University if Bologna
Member of the Board Assessment, PhD Course in EC, Business and Competition Law, University of Pescara

Consultancies

2016: Anti-Corruption National Authority (ANAC). Subject: Guidelines on the Italian Freedom of Information Act
2003: Department of Regional Affairs-Cabinet of the Prime Minister
Subject: Implementation of Constitutional Reform.
2002: Report presented at the Constitutional Affairs Commission, Chamber of Deputees. Subject: Devolution and Constitutional Reform.
2002: Speaker at the Seminar organized for Parliament, Chamber of Deputees. Subject: Spoils system
1997-1998: Department of Administrative Affairs-Cabinet of the Prime Minister. Subject: Administrative decentalization

Other Qualifications

1992-2009: Solicitor, Bar Council, District Court of Bologna


LANGUAGES

English: Fluent (Proficiency in English, University of Cambridge)
Spanish: Fluent (Nivel C1, EC Standards)
French: Quite Fluent (Diplome d’Etudes en Langue Française –D.E.L.F./6)