Susanna Mancini
Adjunct Professor
About
Susanna Mancini is Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe, and Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Bologna. She is interested in the intersection of law and culture, and particularly in law and religion, gender and the law, reproductive rights, multiculturalism, the multilevel protection of fundamental rights, federalism and secession. She is a Vice-President of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law. Professor Manchini was Senior Fellow at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University (January-April 2018). Professor Mancini has served as visiting professor at Columbia Law School (2020), Hebrew University (Jerusalem) (2018), Fordham School of Law (NYC) (2015), the University of Toulouse, the Central European University (recurrent since 2009), the Interdisciplinary Center (Israel) (2019); also a Floersheimer distinguished fellow and visiting professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School (2008-2016) and a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute (2009); an invited speaker at several universities including Yale, Oxford, Columbia, Toronto, Montreal, University College London, and Queen Mary University of London. She holds a PhD, European University Institute (1995) and a JD from the Bologna School of Law (1991). Click here to review Professor Mancini's complete c.v.
- Handbook on Constitutions and Religion, editor, Elgar Publishing (2020)
- Gender Justice and Religious Freedom in the Post-Secular Age, with E. Cohen, in Handbook on Constitutions and Religion, editor, Elgar Publishing (2020)
- Nationalism, populism, religion, and the quest to reframe fundamental rights, with M. Rosenfeld, in Cardozo Law Review 42 (2020)
- European Law and the Veil: Muslim Women from Victims to Emblems of the Enemy, in Religious Literacy, Law and History, Routledge (2019)
- The Conscience Wars: Rethinking the Balance between Religion, Identity and Equality, with M. Rosenfeld (editors), Cambridge University Press (2018)
- Transatlantic conversations: the emergence of society-protective anti-abortion arguments in the United States, Europe and Russia, with K. Stoeclk, in The Conscience Wars, Cambridge University Press (2018)
- Global Religion in a Post-Westphalia World, in Handbook on Global Constitutionalism, Elgar Publishing (2017)
- Comparative Constitutionalism: Cases and Materials, with M. Dorsen, M. Rosenfeld, A. Sajo, and S. Baer, West Academic Publishing (2016)
- Constitutional Secularism in an Age of Religious Revival, with M. Rosenfeld (editors), Oxford University Press (2014)
- Secession and Self-Determination, in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law (2012)
- Patriarchy as the Exclusive Domain of the Other: The Veil Controversy, False Projection and Cultural Racism, in International Journal of Constitutional Law 10:2 (2012)
- To Be or Not To Be Jewish: The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Answers The Question, in European Constitutional Law Review 6:3 (2010)
- The Judge as Moral Arbiter? The Case of Abortion, with M. Rosenfeld, in Constitutional Topography: Constitutions and Values, Eleven International Publishing (2010)
- The Crucifix Rage: Supranational Constitutionalism Bumps Against the Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty, in European Constitutional Law Review 6:1 (2010)
- The Power of Symbols and Symbols as Power. Secularism and Religion as Guarantors of Cultural Convergence , in Cardozo Law Review 30:6 (June 2009)
- Rethinking the Boundaries of Democratic Secession: Liberalism, Nationalism, and the Right of Minorities to Self-Determination , in International Journal of Constitutional Law 6:3-4 (2008)