La Italian Constitutional Court has a new president: it's about Martha Cartabia, the first woman in history to hold this role. She was unanimously elected by the college of judges and takes the place of Giorgio Lattanzi, whose mandate expired on 9 December. Cartabia, which confirmed the judges Aldo Carosi and Mario Morelli as vice-presidents, will remain in office until 13 September 2020when his mandate as constitutional judge expires.
Born in 1963 in San Giorgio su Legnano, in the province of Milan, since 2004 the new president of the Consulta has been full professor of constitutional law at the University of Milan-Bicocca. She has been nominated judge of the Constitutional Court in 2011 by the then President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, and since November 2014 he has held the position of Vice President of the Consulta.
Cartabia holds a PhD from the European University Institute of Fiesole (1993), has taught in numerous Italian universities and has been a visiting professor in various universities in France, Spain, Germany and the United States.
Since December 2017, he has been a member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (also known as the Venice Commission), an organ of the Council of Europe which carries out independent consultative and reflection activities on the key principles of the European constitutional heritage: democracy, human rights and the rule of law.
He has been a member of the Italian Association of Constitutionalists since 2000.
In 2009 he co-founded the first Italian journal of public law in English, the Italian Journal of Public Law, which he co-edits from the foundation.
She is the author of over 230 publications in different languages between books, editorial contributions and articles. The privileged sectors of his research activity concern Italian and European constitutional law, constitutional justice, the protection of fundamental rights and the relationship between the state and religious confessions.
