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Giuseppe de Vergottini is a member of the Johns Hopkins University Advisory Board and of the directive committee of the CCSDD. Professor de Vergottini serves as a faculty member in the Summer Legal Reform Program, hosted annually in Montenegro. De Vergottini has been a Professor of Constitutional Law in the faculty of the University of Bologna since 1974. Prof. de Vergottini is a Honorary President of the International Association of Constitutional Law and of the Italian Association of Constitutional Law, Comparative, Political and Social Science. Prof. de Vergottini has authored many books and publications concerning public economy law, EC and comparative law, military and foreign law. Recent publications include "Manuale di diritto costituzionale comparato," Padova, Cedam, 2004 (Spanish translation edited by UNAM, Mexico, 2004); "Manuale di diritto costituzionale," Padova, Cedam, 2004; "Le transizioni costituzionali," Bologna, Il Mulino, 1998; "La protection des minorites entre garantie des droit linguistiques et bilinguisme," Annuaire Europeen, 1998; "Federal and Regional States - Korean International Association of Constitutional Law," World Constitutional Law Review, 1998. Fields of interest: Comparative constitutional law, National security and emergencies, Government - Parliament relations and Statute of the opposition, Constitutional Reform, and Federalism.
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Justin O. 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.
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Kenneth H. Keller joins Johns Hopkins from the University of Minnesota, where he served as president from 1985 to 1988 and was most recently the Charles M. Denny Jr. Professor of Science, Technology and Public Policy at the university's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Among other leadership positions during his 35-year career at Minnesota, he served as vice president for academic affairs, department chair and graduate school dean. During the 2003-2004 academic year he was a professorial lecturer and visiting professor at the Bologna Center. His research examines the intersection of science and technology with international politics and economics. His recent writings have dealt with information technology and national sovereignty, the environment, the globalization of research and development, and policy issues in high technology medicine.
From 1990 -1996, Keller was at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where he established the Council's program on science, technology and international affairs. He was the first Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology and was, as well, the Council's Senior Vice President for Programs. During his career
he has chaired and served on a number of public and private boards and advisory groups, including the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications of the National Research Council, and the boards of RAND's Institute for Education and Training, LASPAU: Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas, and the Science Museum of Minnesota. He recently completed terms as chair of the National Research Council's Board for the Technical Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and chair of the Medical Technology Leadership Forum. At present, he is a member of the National Research Council's Board on Life Sciences and he chairs a National Research Council Committee assessing NASA's astrophysics program. He is also serving on committees advising universities in Israel and Qatar. In February 2002, Keller was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer.
Keller has undergraduate degrees from Columbia University and holds a doctorate in chemical engineering from Johns Hopkins. He has been a member of the Whiting School of Engineering's national advisory council and the Department of Chemical Engineering's board of visitors. In 1996, he received the university's Distinguished Alumnus Award.
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Susanna Mancini is Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the Bologna University, and Adjunct professor of International Law at the Johns Hopkins University' SAIS Bologna Center. She received a Ph.D. from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). Her fields of interest include the managament of ethnic and linguistic conflicts, the protection of minorities and democracy in the European Union.
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Vittorio Buffatti is Assistant Director at the CCSDD and is part of the editorial staff of the CCSDD lecture series. He graduated in Political Science from the University of Bologna in 2003, with a thesis on "Human Rights in Australia. A case study: the Italian Community and its protection under the Australian Constitution", spending three months at the University of Sydney for his thesis research. Fields of interest include: Constitutional Freedoms, Human Rights, Comparative Public Law.
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Livia Mercatelli is Project Coordinator of the CCSDD Summer School on "EU and Legal Reform".
She graduated in International and Diplomatic Studies from the University of Bologna.
Livia has worked as an intern in a Spanish NGO as Project Coordinator for Development Projects in Education Area for Africa, India, Latin America and East Europe.
She is particularly interested in International Cooperation for Third World Development.
Her field of interest include: International Cooperation, International Political Economy, Political and Economic Relations between China and Africa.
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Jade Jossen graduated in 2000 at New York University - Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts with an MA in New Media Studies. She is also a Certified Music Together teacher and Center Director and currently manages the daily operation of an Early Childhood Music Education Center (www.musictogether.it) with 200 registered families. Her research focuses on the use of technology for social and sustainable causes primarily in developing countries. During her graduate studies she first started working with the Downtown Community Television of New York (www.dctvny.org) as a production assistant and web consultant. There she increased her passion for grass roots media projects and enhanced her belief that expanding public access to the electronic media arts invigorates our nation's democracy. Practically she was able to serve individuals who could not otherwise afford a media arts education by introducing members of the local community to the basics of electronic media. Later she worked as a Community Manager for an online teenage girl interactive magazine of 3.2 million users (www.gURL.com) handling all community activities from discussion boards to health education chat rooms and devising strategies to create remote interaction among teen girls all around the world.
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Silvia Bagni holds a Ph.D. in Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bologna. She has written numerous articles on legal drafting and the role of constitutional courts in Central and Eastern Europe. Together with Lucio Pegoraro and Giorgia Pavani she has edited a glossary on comparative local government. She is a member of the editorial board of the CCSDD lecture series.
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Sara Pennicino holds a PhD in Comparative Public Law from the University of Siena, and is a tutor of Public Law in the Faculty of Economics of the "Luigi Bocconi" University, Milan. She is particularly interested in immigration studies and immigration law and she is part of a project to provide legal aid to incoming immigrants.
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Francesco Biagi graduated in Law from the University of Bologna in 2007 with a thesis on "Electoral Courts in Latin America: a comparative analysis", spending three months at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City. He is a PhD candidate in constitutional law at the University of Ferrara. His fields of interest are constitutional law, comparative public law and electoral management.
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Rick Lechowick is a second-year MA candidate in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University. He concentrates in International Law, International Economics, and Conflict Management. His undergraduate degree was in Classics and Religious Studies from Macalester College in Minnesota. Before coming to the world of International Relations, Rick worked in the entertainment business in his hometown of Los Angeles, California. To make the conversion seem more fluid, he spent a year in India and Southeast Asia researching cross-cultural expression through performance. Immediately before working at CCSDD, Rick interned with the United Nations Office of the Recovery Coordinator in Aceh, Indonesia, helping to reintegrate combatants and build governmental capacity in the autonomous province.
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| Eleonora Branca is a senior student at the University of Bologna's School of Law. She spent 5 months at the Panthéon- Sorbonne University in Paris with the Erasmus Programme, specializing in Law of the European Union. She is very interested in the issue of integration and reconciliation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and in the role of international and local tribunals in particular.
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| Ivan Butina is a MA candidate in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, SAIS. He holds a BA degree in Diplomatic and International Science from the University of Bologna, Forlì campus. His main fileds of interest include European Foreign Policy, Regionalisation processes and Peace and Security issues. Working as cultural mediator, with a focus on Roma communities, he is also dealing with integration and identity formation. Born in Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina) and living in Italy, he is active in gathering students and young professionals of Bosnian origin, analyzing the country's situation and promoting projects with the aim to involve young people from the diaspora in Bosnian social and economic development.
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