Professor Susanna Mancini

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Susanna Mancini (Ph.D., European University Institute, 1995; JD, University of Bologna, 1991) holds the Chair of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Bologna School of Law, and is a vice president of the International Association of Constitutional Law. She regularly teaches at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS Europe) of Johns Hopkins University. She has held several visiting professorship positions, including at Columbia Law School, Hebrew University and the University of Toulouse. She is interested in exploring how race and gender-related social and cultural constructs have shaped the balance of power and privilege in a liberal society, and in the role of the law in perpetuating and/or combating the marginalization of women and of racial, religious, sexual and  linguistic  minorities. Her work explores issue of law and religion, reproductive rights, the partnership of feminism and multiculturalism, self-determination and secession.

Representative publications:

Politicized Religion and the Reframing of Fundamental Rights (OUP, 2026)

Constitutions and Religion (Elgar, 2020)

The Conscience Wars (CUP, 2018, with Rosenfeld)

Comparative Constitutional Law. Cases and Materials (West, 2022, with Dorsen, Rosenfeld, Sajo and Baer)

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law (2nd ed, OUP, forthcoming, with Rosenfeld and Sajo)