Education
2001-2004:
PhD University of Pisa (Italy), Department of Public Law.
2000-2001:
Scholarship at the International Center on Human Rights in Strasbourg (September 2000-January 2001) and at University of Tunis (El Manar), Department of Law and Political Science (March-May 2001).
1999:
Degree in Law, University of Ferrara.

Teaching/research positions
2014-to date:
Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law, University of Ferrara.
2015-to date:
Member of University Ferrara Unit of PRIN Project "Soggetto di diritto e vulnerabilità: modelli istituzionali e concetti giuridici in trasformazione"
2017-to date:
Member of the Teaching Board of the Ph.D. Program in “Studi sulla criminalità organizzata” (Studies on Organised Crime), University of Milano.
2011-to date:
Founding member of MaCrO (Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Mafia and other forms of Organized Crime), Department of Law, University of Ferrara.
2010- to date:
Co-founder and coordinator of Interuniversity Working Group on the women’s political subjectivity.
2012- to date:
Member of the Scientific Council of the II Level Master in "Analisi dei fenomeni di criminalità organizzata e strategie di riutilizzo sociale dei beni confiscati"(Department of Political Science, University of Napoli-Federico II).
2012-to date:
Referee for the following Scientific Journals: Sociologia del diritto, Ragion pratica, Genius,Gender and education, Lavoro e diritto, About Gender.
2001-to date:
Member of the Centre Jura Gentium - Centre of Philosophy of International Law and Global Politics, Department of Theory and History of Law, University of Florence.
2001-to date:
Member of the editorial board of Jura Gentium Journal of Philosophy of International Law and Global Politics (http://www.juragentium.org/).
2011-2013:
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Corso di Perfezionamento in “Identità, genere e pratiche socio-educative”, Department of Humanities, University of Ferrara.


Other functions
2016- to date:
Member of the “Consiglio scientifico di Macroarea di Scienze della società e dell'uomo”, University of Ferrara.
2016-to date:
Member of the Center for the cooperation to the international development, University of Ferrara.
2014-to date:
Member of the “Consiglio del Corso di Studi” of the Master Degree in Law, University of Ferrara – Campus of Rovigo.
2007- to date:
Member of the Italian Society of Philosophy Law.
2006- 2012:
Member of the Committee on teaching at the Department of Law, University of Ferrara.
2014 - 2017:
President of Ethical Commission of the University of Ferrara.


Courses taught
2017-to date:
Course in legal Clinics, Department of Law, University of Ferrara.
2008 - to date:
Course in Philosophy of Law, Department of Law, University of Ferrara.
2010 - to date:
Course in Sociology of Law, Department of Law, University of Ferrara.
2007-2010:
Course in General Theory of Law, Department of Law, University of Ferrara.

Main research activities:
She has made research about legal feminism, women's right and freedom, women's political and legal subjectivity, critical theories of law, contemporary debates on vulnerability and equality, compatibility between different juridical cultures, in particular referring to the arab-muslim tradition in juridicial/legal matters. She analysed issues rising from legal pluralism, multi-culturalism, tolerance; debates on universality of human rights, on the compatibility of the principles of rule of law, laicity and democracy (as far as developed in the western experience) with the legal arab-muslim tradition. She studied also arab-muslim feminism, judicial organizations and Courts, civil societies and civil activism in the Maghreb region.