Professor of Constitutional Law at the Department of Translational Research and of New Surgical and Medical Technologies
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Professor Giuseppe Campanelli, born in Galatina (Lecce) in 1975, married, two children. He graduated with honors in Law from the University of Pisa in 1999. In 2004 he received his PhD in Comparative Public Law from the University of Siena. In the same year he was a research fellow in Italian and Comparative Judicial System at the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Pisa. From January 2005 to August 2006 he was a research fellow in Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Pisa. From September 2006 to October 2023 he was associate professor of Constitutional Law, first at the University of Salento-Lecce and then in Pisa. On the 2nd of November 2023 he became full professor at the University of Pisa.

Institutional assignments and other professional experiences

Before being appointed vice Rector for Legal Affairs, he was a member of the Ethics Commission in the 2020-2022 biennium. He is director (together with professors Romboli and Famiglietti) of the Higher Education Program in Constitutional Justice and Judicial Protection of Rights, held annually since 2012 at the Department of Law, University of Pisa. He is a member of the Academic Council of the Doctoral Program in Legal Sciences (curriculum in fundamental rights, constitutional justice, legal comparison). He has often been an expert trainer for the Superior School of the Judiciary, for which he is permanently listed on the Register of Lecturers. He has been a lawyer since 2002, in the Supreme Court since 2013, registered on the Special Register as provided for full-time university lecturers.

Scientific and Teaching activity

He has taught Constitutional Law I and II, Constitutional Justice, Public Law in the Transnational Dimension and now teaches Italian and Comparative Judicial System in the Law Department's undergraduate courses. In addition, he holds all the chairs of Public Law in undergraduate courses in the medical area and two elective courses in the field of Protection of the Right to Self-Determination in Health and Ethical Communication in Medicine in the Degree Programme in Medicine and Surgery.
He has carried out research periods in Spain (Carlos III University of Madrid), teaching assignments, visits and reports in doctoral and master's programs particularly in Spain and Latin America. From 2000 to the present, he has been a member of Research Projects of National Interest and CNR Young Investigator Projects as well as European and international projects and, in addition, PRA projects. He coordinated a research unit within a national PRIN (2013-2016), on the topic of fiscal federalism and is currently one of the scientific managers of a PON-Governance and Institutional Capacity 2014-2020 project of the Ministry of Justice, on the topic of "Swift Justice."
He is a member of the Italian Association of Constitutionalists. He is a member of the Interdepartmental Center for Bioethics at the University of Pisa and of the Scientific Committee of the imprinting "Public Functions and Responsibilities," Pisa University Press. He is a member, among others, of the Scientific Committee of the journal "Supreme Courts and Health," the Editorial Board of the journal "Regional Rights. Journal of Local Self-Government Law," of the Editorial Board of the journal "European Public Law Online Review," and of the Scientific Committee of "The Pisa Group Review," and has collaborated with the journal "Il Foro Italiano."

He is the author of three monographs and more than one hundred scientific publications, including contributions in volumes (chapters or essays), editorships and articles, which correspond to his main research interests, with particular reference to the judiciary, constitutional justice, the relationship between the courts (Supreme and Constitutional Court, EDU Court and Constitutional Court), state secrecy, end of life, informed consent, medically assisted procreation, judicial protection of fundamental rights, fiscal federalism and local government.