Paolo Passaglia

1. Education
1998-2001 – Ph.D. in Constitutional Justice at the University of Pisa, in association with the University of Aix-Marseille III (France), defending a thesis on the formal invalidity of legislative acts.
1997 (6 months) – Participation in the Parliamentary Studies and Researches Seminar “Silvano Tosi”, Florence [received grant from the Italian Parliament]
1992-1996 – Masters and Undergraduate Degree in Law at the University of Pisa

2. Academic Positions
Since 2022 - Director of the Master in "Internet Ecosystem: Governance and Rights" (since 2024, "Law and Technology of the Digital Ecosystem")
Since 2016 - Full Professor in Comparative Law at the University of Pisa
2013-2014 – Awarded of the national scientific qualification as full professor in Constitutional Law and in Comparative Law
2011-2016 – Associate Professor in Comparative Public Law at the University of Pisa
2007 – Visiting professor at the University of Toulon-Var (France) in 2007
2005 – Associate Professor in Constitutional Law at the University of Pisa
2002 – Researcher in Public Law at the University of Pisa

3. Research Grants
2005 – Faculty Enrichment Program: Grant by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
2002 – Faculty Research Program: Grant by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada 2000-2001 – Research grant in Public Law at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa

4. Direction of Research Projects
2024-2025 - Unit coordination of a national project concerning the regulation of cyberspace (focus of the unit: Online disinformation)
2019-2020 – Coordinator of a research project on refugees and their integration in Italy [POR FSE 2014-2020];
2012-2015 – Unit coordinator of a comparative law research on the impact of legal scholarship on constitutional case law, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and University;
2011-2013 – Legal unit coordinator of a research on social networks and new forms of learning, funded by the Region of Tuscany [PAR FAS, 1.1.a.3.];
2005-2006 – International research on Second Chambers in a comparative perspective, funded by the Compagnia di S. Paolo, Turin.

5. Collaboration at the Italian Constitutional Court
2011-present – Scientific Coordinator of the Comparative Law Area of the Research Department
2004-2010 – Collaborator of the Research Department of the Court
2003-2004 – Law Clerk of Professor Gustavo Zagrebelsky, Vice-President and then President of the Court

6. Research fields
His work focuses on the constitutional adjudication, public communication, the sources of law, the new technologies and the protection of fundamental rights, as well as on the French constitutional system. He has published extensively in Italian, French, and English.
His books deal with procedural invalidity of the law (2002), the French constitutional tradition (2008), the relationships between the Constitutional Court and the legislator (2011, in French), the abolition of death penalty (2012 in French, and 2021 in Italian). He co-edited a book concerning the international research on the Second Chambers worldwide (2006), a book on the Internet and the Constitution (2014), and a book on the relationships between COnstitutional Courts and scholars.