Universita' di Perugia
Facolta' di Scienze Politiche

 

  Prof. Francesco Clementi
   Associate Professor of  Comparative Public Law

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F. Clementi, Città del Vaticano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2009.
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Forty-four hectares (i.e., 100 acres): not much more than a decent golf course. And yet this tiny, trapezoid-shaped land - three-and-a-half times smaller than thePrincipality of Monaco and one-and-a-half times smaller than the Republic of SanMarino - is both renowned and unfamiliar. It is a fundamental site for worship among followers of Roman Catholicism, but also a city within the city of Rome; the core ofthe legal embodiment of the Church's central government, i.e., the Holy See, but alsoan enclave surrounded by the Italian state. It was established on June 7, 1929 (when the Lateran Treaty was ratified, after its signing by the Holy See and Italy on February 11), thus putting an end to the so-called "Roman Question" that had poisoned the relationship between the Kingdom of Italy and the Papal State after the breach of Porta Pia in 1870. From the view point of constitutional law, the Vatican is a unique case: just what kind of state is it? What are the ties that bind the Holy See, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Italian state? What legal norms govern its life? What are its distinctive internal configurations of power and institutions? And what are the rights enjoyed by and the duties required of its citizens 

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 Bio Profile      

Francesco Clementi is Associate Professor in “Comparative Public Law”
at the University of Perugia, Faculty of Political Science (2007--to present).

Lecturer in Public Law in the University of Perugia, Faculty of Political Science (2006-2007), before he was research scholar in Comparative Public Law, Faculty of Law, University "La Sapienza" of Rome (2004-2006).He received his PhD in "Teoria dello Stato e Istituzioni politiche comparate" at the University "La Sapienza" of Rome (2000-2003). Before, he won a grant to follow the course of "Seminario di Studi e Ricerche Parlamentari Silvano Tosi", realized by the University of Florence according with the Italian Parliament (1999) and, in 1998-1999, he was also visiting scholar at “Complutense” University of Madrid and “Hebrew-Mount Scopus” University of Jerusalem.
In 1998 he won the annual prize for the best thesis degree offered by "Fondazione Primo Levi".
He taught courses, seminars and lessons in public law, comparative public law, public law, internet law, at Grand Valley State University (Michigan, Usa),  Università "La Sapienza" di Roma, University of Bologna, University of Naples (Federico II), University of Florence, University of Rende (Arcavacata – Cosenza), University of Trieste, Hebrew-Mount Scopus” University of Jerusalem.
Member of the editorial committee of the following reviews:  “Nomos. Le attualità nel diritto”; “
Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo”;  “Giust.Amm.it. – Rivista Internet di Diritto pubblico”; “Federalismi.it. Rivista internet dell’Osservatorio sul federalismo e i processi di governo”. Benecomune.net e nelMerito.com.
He is member, also, of The Devolution Club (Association promoting the constitutional dialogue) and ASTRID (Association for Studies and Research on the Institutional Reform) and founding member of Institute for Competition (I-com).

Francesco Clementi's subject areas of interest are comparative public and constitutional law, form of government, freedom of association, electoral systems, european constitution-making process, italian constitutional reform, financing politics.

 

Education

- Ph.D. in "Teoria dello Stato e Istituzioni politiche comparate", University La Sapienza of Rome,  2003;

- J.D. with mention in Political Science (Laurea cum laude), Università "La Sapienza" di Roma, 1998;

       
Curriculum vitae
Publications
 
 Courses
   
Comparative Public Law [2008-2009]

Constitutions and Constitutionalism [2008-2009]

Programs for Erasmus & Foreign Students
[Syllabi,Texts and Credits]