People

Francesco Palermo
Prof. Dr.
Eurac Research, Bolzano/Bozen and University of Verona, Italy
About
Comparative, Italian and European Constitutional Law
Federalism, Regionalism
Minority Issues
European Integration
Italian, European and Comparative Regional Law
Legal Terminology and Translation
Constitutional transition in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
Judicial review
Short bio
Francesco Palermo is professor for comparative constitutional law in the University of Verona and Director of the Institute for Comparative Federalism at Eurac Research in Bolzano/Bozen. He worked for the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and was member and president of the Council of Europe’s Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. From 2013 to 2018, he served as a non-party member of the Italian Senate. Palermo has been a member of the Group of Idependent Experts of the Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Authorities since 2011. He is a former president (2016-2022) of the International Association of Centres for Federal Studies (IACFS), member of the Scientific Committee of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU for the term 2018-2023 and Constitutional Adviser to the Council of Europe’s Congress of Local and Regional Autonomies since 2019.
Curriculum vitae
Links to external profiles
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4411-0610
ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesco-Palermo-9