Curriculum Studiorum
Corrado Caruso
Date of birth: June 26th, 1983
Citizenship: Italian (European)
e-mail address: corrado.caruso@unibo.it;
Current Academic Position: Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, Department of Legal Studies, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna; Qualified full professor of constitutional law
Research & Academic Positions
2023 – Principal Investigator of the National Project (PRIN), funded by the Italian Ministry of the Research, Governing by numbers. The impact of indicators on the constitutional system: rules, rights, public policies and judicial review
2023 spring term – Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, New York University
2021 – present: Member of the board of the Italian Association of Constitutional Lawyers;
2020 – present: Qualified as Full Professor of Constitutional Law (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale);
2019 – present: Member of the Alma Mater Research Center for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
2019 – present: Associate Professor of Constitutional Law University of Bologna, Department of Legal Studies;
2019 – 2020: P.I. of the project, funded by the University of Bologna Institute of Advanced Studies, [http://https/dsg.unibo.it/it/ricerca/progetti-di-ricerca/progetti-nazionali-e-di-ateneo/isa-topic-2019-la-rete-e-la-trilogia-dell-identita] (about the impact of the Internet on personal, cultural and political identity);
2019 – 2020: Member of the National Project, funded by the Italian Ministry of the Research (P.R.I.N. 2017), Where is Europe going? Perspectives on the European federalizing process;
2017 – 2020: P.I. of the Alma Idea project, funded by the University of Bologna, on [http://https/dsg.unibo.it/it/ricerca/progetti-di-ricerca/progetti-nazionali-e-di-ateneo/almaidea2017-il-governo-dei-numeri-indicatori-economico-finanziari-e-decisione-di-bilancio-nello-stato-costituzionale] ;
2016 – 2109: Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Bologna;
2016 – 2019: Member of the Research Project on Protección de las minorías frente a los discursos del odio. La construcción multidisciplinar de la tolerancia desde el Derecho penal a las políticas públicas (“The protection of minorities against hate speech. Tolerance building from crime law to public policies”), promoted by the Loyola Univiersity in Sevilla (Spain), and funded by the Spanish Ministery of the Research;
2015 – 2018: Member of the Jean Monet Module on Mobility, Security and the New Media, promoted by the University of Palermo and funded by the European Union Commission;
2014 – 2019: National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione scientifica nazionale) to serve as Associate Professor of Constitutional Law;
2014 – 2016: Post-doc researcher in Constitutional Law, Department of International, Legal, Historical and Political Studies, University of Milan;
2012 – 2014: Member of the research project on La costituzione finanziaria. La decisione di bilancio dello Stato, tra vincoli europei e coordinamento delle politiche di governo territoriale (“The financial constitution: the State budgetary process between EU constraints and coordination of local government policies”) and funded by the Italian Ministry of the Research;
2012 – 2013: Member of the research project on La sicurezza urbana e il ruolo delle autonomie locali (“Urban safety and the role of the local governments”) and funded by the National Association of Police Officers (ANFP);
2011 – 2012: Member of the Research Project on La qualità della legislazione regionale (“The quality of the regional legislation”), funded and promoted by the Camera dei deputati (Italian House of Representative);
2011 – 2014: Post-doc researcher in Constitutional Law, Department of Legal Studies, University of Bologna;
2011: Doctor in Constitutional Law (PhD), Department of Legal Studies, University of Bologna “Alma Mater Studiorum”;
2010: Visiting Researcher at the Yale Law School - USA (Spring semester). Faculty Sponsor: Prof. O. M. Fiss;
Journals’ Editorial Boards
2021 – present: Member of Osservatorio AIC editorial board;
2021– present: Member of Rivista AIC editorial board;
2020 – present: Member of Quaderni costituzionali editorial board;
2019 – present: Member of Giustizia insieme scientific committee;
2018 – present: Director of the Monitore della giurisprudenza costituzionale (section of the law journal Forum di Quaderni costituzionali on the Constitutional Court case law);
2017 – present: Member of the Evaluation Board of the Law Journal Media laws-Law and policy of the media in a Comparative perspective;
2016 – present: Member of the Editorial Board of the Law Journal Diritti regionali;
Teaching & Courses
From a.y. 2023/2024 – present: Rule of Law: Foundations and Applications (2nd Cycle Degree/2 year Master in Legal Studies), University of Bologna;
From a.y. 2020/2021 – present: Regional and Federal Law (Single cycle Degree/Combined Bachelor and Master in Law), University of Bologna;
From a.y. 2019/2020 – present: Public Security Law (Single cycle Degree/Combined Bachelor and Master in Law, Ravenna Campus), University of Bologna;
2019: Professor for the National School for Judicial Training (“Scuola Superiore della Magistratura”);
From a.y. 2018/2019 – present: Constitutional Law (Single cycle Degree/Combined Bachelor and Master in Law, Ravenna Campus);
A.y 2017-2018, Constitutional Justice (Single cycle Degree/Combined Bachelor and Master in Law, Ravenna Campus);
A.y. 2017-2018, Fundamental rights (Single cycle Degree/Combined Bachelor and Master in Law, Ravenna Campus), University of Bologna;
Professional Experiences & Public Engagement
2021 – present: Vice President of the Council for Statutory Guarantee of the Regione Emilia-Romagna (an institution in charge of guaranteeing the Italian Constitution and the Emilia-Romagna Regional Fundamental Chart – “Statuto regionale” – against their violations brought by the regional law proposals);
2021-2022 – member of the Research Commission, appointed by the Italian Minister of Regional Affairs, in charge of reducing constitutional litigations between the central governments and the regional governments;
2021: hearing for the Italian Senate on the constitutionality of the measures adopted to contrast COVID-19 pandemic,
2017 – 2021: Law Clerk, Italian Constitutional Court, Justice Prof. Augusto Barbera;
Publications
About 80 publications since 2008, including seven books (two monographs) and several essays in A-class journals (highest rank in the classification established in 2012 by the National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes).
Publications in English
Majority, entry for the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, Oxford University Press (2022);
with M. Morvillo (eds.), Governing with numbers. Economic indicators and the budget decision in the constitutional state, Bologna, il Mulino, 2020, 1-393;
with M. Goldoni: Halving the “Italicum”: The Italian Constitutional Court and the Reform of the Electoral System, in VerfBlog, 2017/2/28 (https://verfassungsblog.de/halving-the-italicum-the-italian-constitutional-court-and-the-reform-of-the-electoral-system/);
with M. Morvillo, Procedural Strengths, Political Weaknesses? Transparency and Parliamentary Oversight in TTIP Negotiations, in Rivista AIC, 4/2016, 1-24;
with M. Morvillo, Economic governance and budgetary rules in the European context: a call for a new European constitutionalism, in Il Diritto dell'Unione Europea, 4/2014, 699-731.
Publications in Spanish;
El “lugar” de la interpretación conforme con el cedh en el ordenamiento italiano, in Anales de Derecho, Número especial: El TEDH en su sesenta aniversario (2020), Universidad de Murcia, 1-22;
El Hate speech en Estrasburgo. El pluralismo militante del sistema convencional, in L. Alonso, V. Vazquez (eds), Sobre la liertad de expression y el discurso del odio, Sevilla, Athenaica, 2017, pp. 109-127;
La juridificación de la austeridad fiscal en Europa: restricciones presupuestarias dentro de la dinámica federal europea, in Derecho y critica social, 1(2), 447-504;
Main publications in Italian
Monographs:
La garanzia dell’unità della Repubblica. Studio sul giudizio di legittimità in via principale (“Securing the republican unity. An essay on the principaliter proceeding before the Italian Constitutional Court”, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2020, 1-472 (open access, Department of Legal Studies book series);
La libertà di espressione in azione. Contributo a una teoria costituzionale del discorso pubblico (“Freedom of speech in action. A constitutional theory of the public discourse” Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2013, 1-416 (open access, Department of Legal Studies book series);
Edited books
With C. Valentini, Grammatica del costituzionalismo (“The grammar of constitutionalism”), Bologna, il Mulino, 2021, 1-338;
With F. Medico and A. Morrone, Granital revisited? L'integrazione europea attraverso il diritto giurisprudenziale (“Granital revisited? The european integration through the judge-made law”), Bononia Univesity Press, 2020, 1-233;
With F. Cortese and S. Rossi, Alla ricerca del metodo nel diritto pubblico. Vittorio Emanuele Orlando reloaded (“Looking for the method in public law. Vittorio Emanuele Orlando reloaded”), FrancoAngeli 2020, 1-403;
With F. Cortese and S. Rossi, Immaginare la Repubblica. Mito e attualità dell’Assemblea costituente (“Imaging the Repubblic. Mith and newness of the Italian Constituent Assembly”), FrancoAngeli, 2018, 1-376;
Articles:
Il tempo delle istituzioni d libertà. Disinformazione, piattaforme digitali e discorso pubblico europeo (, in Quaderni costituzionali, 3/2023, forthcoming (“The Age of the Institutions of Freedom. Digital Platforms, Disinformation and European Public Discourse”);
Norme innocue: l’inidoneità lesiva delle disposizioni legislative nel giudizio in via principale, in S. De Pretis, C. Padula (eds) Questione aperte nel rapporto tra Stato e Regioni, Torino, Giappichelli, 2023, pp. 235 – 251.
Originalismo e teoria della Costituzione. Una critica a Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in BioLaw Journal, 2023, Special Issue 1/2023, pp. 87-113;
La leale collaborazione ai tempi del judicial regionalism. Da metodo di governo a standard di giudizio (“Sincere cooperation in times of judicial regionalism. From a method of
governance to a standard of judgment”), in Quaderni costituzionali, 4/2021, 909-930;
Giustizia costituzionale (“Constitutional justice”), in C. Caruso, C. Valentini (eds.), Grammatica del costituzionalismo (“The grammar of the constitutionalism”), Bologna, il Mulino, 187-204;
I custodi di silicio. Protezione della democrazia e libertà di espressione nell’era dei social network (“The silicon keeper. Protection of the democracy and freedom of speech in the social network age”) in Consulta online, 2020, 1-12;
Granital reloaded. La precisazione nell' "integrazione" attraverso i conflitti (“Granital reloaded. The ‘clarification’ in the integration by conflicts”, in C. Caruso, F. Medico, A. Morrone, Granital revisited. L'integrazione europea attraverso il diritto giurisprudenziale (“Granital revisited? The european integration through the judge-made law”, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2020, 29-45.
Il "posto" dell'interpretazione conforme alla Cedu (“The place of the ECHR conforming interpretation”), in Giurisprudenza costituzionale, 4/2018, 1985-2000;
Le prospettive di riforma dell’Unione economico-monetaria e il mito dell’unità politica europea (“The reform perspectives of the EMU and the myth of political unity”), in Rivista di diritti comparati, 1/2018, 90-131;
With Andrea Morrone, Art. 20. Eguaglianza davanti alla legge, in Carta dei diritti fondamentali dell'Unione europea, Milano, Giuffrè, 2017, 386-411 (“Art. 20. Equality before the law”, Commentary of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union)
Vincoli di bilancio e dinamica federale europea: itinerari di una comparazione (“Budget constraints and european federal dynamic: comparative itineraries”), research paper for the Centro Studi sul Federalismo, 1-30 (http://www.csfederalismo.it/it/pubblicazioni/research-paper) and in Forum di Quaderni costituzionali, Rassegna n. 7/2015 (www.forumcostituzionale.it ), 1-30;
Dignità degli “altri” e spazi di libertà degli “intolleranti”. Per una rilettura dell'art. 21 Cost. (“Dignity of the others and freedom spacs for the intolerants. A new reading of art. 21 of the Const.”), in Quaderni costituzionali, 4/2013, 795-821.
