Chiara Valentini

Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law, with a PhD in "Constitutional Justice and Fundamental Rights" (University of Pisa). In the 2024/2025 a.y., Visiting Researcher at the Institute for European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and at the College of Europe (Bruges), and Visiting Professor at the Department of Legal Studies, Università Bocconi.

Before joining the University of Bologna, she was "Ramon y Cajal" Researcher at the Pompeu Fabra University and "Max Weber Fellow" at the European University Institute, under international research fellowships.

Her research interests lie in constitutionalism and judicial review, legal reasoning, deliberative democracy, social rights, constituent power. 

Assistant editor of Ratio Juris: An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (Wiley) and Associate Editor of Jus Cogens. A Critical Journal of Philosophy of Law and Politics (Springer).

Member of the Constitutional Theory Network, Law & Philosophy Research Group (UPF), Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy, NOVA Argumentation Centre of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, European Academy of Legal Theory.