Justin Frosini
Dr Justin Frosini is the director of the CCSDD and editor of the CCSDD Lectures Series (together with Lucio Pegoraro). Frosini is a Lecturer of Public Law in the Faculty of Economics of the "Luigi Bocconi" University, Milan and has a Ph.D. in Constitutional Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Bologna.
Professor Frosini is a member of the editorial committee of the comparative law journal "Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo" and of the Italian constitutional law journal "Quaderni Costituzionali". His fields of interest are comparative constitutional law, constitutional reform, local government, devolution and federalism.

Stevan Lilic
Professor Lilic serves as the CCSDD's lead faculty partner in the European Union Legal Reform Program. He is currently chairman of the Serbia and Montenegro Constitutional Legal Reform Program. Dr. Lilic received his PhD in Law from the University of Belgrade and became a Full Professor in 1997. He is the president of the Lawyers for Democracy and the Legal Informatics Society and a member of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM), the World Jurist Association, and the Balkan Network Against Torture (BAN). Dr. Lilic is a member of the Serbian parliament, and has held positions on the Constitutional Committee the Committee for Foreign Relations. He is a founding member of the Center for Anti-War Action and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia. In addition, Dr. Lilic has published over 250 essays, monographs, university textbooks, articles, research projects, etc. throughout his career.

Luca Mezzetti
Luca Mezzetti is a Professor of Constitutional Comparative Law and Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Law at the University of Udine, Italy. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, University Externando de Columbia, Bogota. Mr. Mezzetti received a Ph.D. in Constitutional Law from the University of Perugia.

Susanna Mancini
Susanna Mancini is an associated Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law of the Bologna University. She received a Ph.D. from the European University Insitute (Florence, Italy). Her fields of interest include the mamagment of ethnic and linguistic conflicts, the protection of mionrities and democracy in the European Union.

Sara Pennicino
Sara Pennicino graduated in Law from the University of Bologna with a thesis in Comparative Public Law on "Profili costituzionali comparati dello straniero lavoratore: i casi di Italia e Spagna", in 2003. She is a tutor of public law in the Faculty of Economics of the "Luigi Bocconi" University, Milan. Dr Pennicino is particularly interested in immigration studies and immigration law and she is part of a project to provide legal aid to incoming immigrants.

Ivana Spasic
Dr Spasic will co-assist with the logistical coordinating and will also co-instruct during the Summer Session. She holds a European Master in Politics and Administration from the University of Bologna, Forli Campus (2002). She is also a graduate of the University of Belgrade Law School (2000). She is currently working for the Republican Secretariat of Legislature (2003).

Altin Shkurti
Altin Shkurti has been working as a judge in the Tirana District Court, Albania, for the last six years and as a university professor of the Faculty of Law of the Tirana University for the last tree years. Previously, he completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Law and post-graduate degree as a Magistrate, from the Magistrates’ School of the Republic of Albania. During his career, he has participated in many courses and has written numerous scientific articles.

Bill Bowring
Bill Bowring is a Professor of Human Rights and International Law at London Metropolitan University and a practicing English barrister with significant experience with the European Court of Human Rights. He is the Director of the University's Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute, and founder and Academic Coordinator of the EC/EIDHR-funded European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), which is part of the Institute. He is a Senior Criminal Justice Law Expert for the EC/British Council project "Reforming the Procuracy in Georgia" and he led the institute team which provided an Audit of Human Rights in Serbia and Montenegro for the OSCE Mission in SaM. He is the European Expert for the European Union Policy Advice Programme project "The Development of a System of Administrative Justice in Russia." He acts as an expert on a regular basis for the Council of Europe and other international organizations on issues concerning human rights, minority rights, and rights to education.

Giacomo Di Federico
Giacomo Di Federico holds an MA in EU Law from the University Paris I - Panthéon - Sorbonne, and a Phd in EC Law from the University of Bologna where he is a researcher and lecturer. He is a member of C.I.R.D.C.E. (Interdepartmental Centre for Research on European Communities Law - Director Professor Lucia Serena Rossi) and is on the Editorial Staff of the CEEUN (Central and Eastern European University Network) Transition Studies Review (Springer, Wien, New York). His main fields of interest are EC administrative law, competition law and fundamental rights.

Zarije Seizovic
Dr Seizovic holds an MA and a PhD in Political Sciences and graduated from the Sarajevo Faculty of Law. He has worked as a Legal Counsel in OSCE, UN, ICG, and as Criminal Court Judge in BiH. Currently he works as a lawyer in the Criminal Defense Section of the Registry of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (State Court) and has recently been selected as a lecturer at the University of Zenica.

Karel Klima
Karel Klima is Vice-Dean for International Relations of the Faculty of Law, Chief of the Center of European Studies beside the Faculty of Law, and Chief of the Department of Constitutional Law and the Law of the European Union of the Faculty of Law at the University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic. He has extensive experience in the field of human rights as a duputy of clients in cases of human rights protection, and he specializes in constitutional complaints to the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic and to the European Court for Human Rights.

Elena D'Orlando
Elena d'Orlando is a Lecturer of Comparative Public Law at the University of Udine, Italy. She holds a PhD in Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bologna. D'Orlando is a member of the Editorial Committee of the comparative law journal "Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo". Her fields of interest include comparative public law, constitutional law, local governance, and constitutional courts.

Morris Montalti
Morris Montalti has an LL.M. in Parliamentary Law from the "Associazione Studi Parlamentari Silvano Tosi" (University of Firenze) and is a PhD candidate in Constitutional Law from the University of Bologna. He has worked as a Visiting Research Fellow in Cardozo Law School (New York, NY, USA), University of Cape Town and Stellenbosh University (South Africa). His fields of interest include: Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law. He has written numerous publications concerning human rights, women representation in politics, same-sex marriages debate in the USA, Canada and South Africa, horizontal application in the South African Bill of Rights.