Benedetta Barbisan

Benedetta Barbisan has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Macerata since 2009. She had many articles and essays published in several languages on various topics, from the forms of government to bioethics, and has also authored a book on the Marbury v. Madison case and the US origins of the judicial review («Birth of a Myth», 2008). In 2001, she was awarded the CNR Scholarhip for Young Researchers.

Her chair sponsors and organizes the «Alberico Gentili Lectures», an annual lectureship in law in the broadest sense, whose keynote speakers are distinguished intellectuals, academics, and judges who deliver customarily three unprecedented lectures. The AGLectures are subsequently published in a dedicated series by il Mulino.

She spent long periods researching and teaching at Boston College Law School (with Charles H. Baron), Harvard Law School (with Laurence H. Tribe), and Yale Law School (with Guido Calabresi and Robert A. Burt). She has taught at the University of Oviedo (Spain), at the Central Michigan University (USA) and at IUC in Turin. She is currently working on a book on the «right to die» entitled «Therpandrus' Obsession. Privacy, Dignity, and the "Right to Die" in the Era of Universal Human Rights» to be published in the United States.

Education

1995/96 Graduated in Law magna cum laude at the University of Macerata with a dissertation in Comparative Constitutional Law