Francesco Biagi

Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of Bologna Department of Legal Studies.

Deputy Secretary General of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL-AIDC).

Research Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development (partnership between the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe and the University of Bologna).

Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law (Heidelberg) (2015-2017), where he now serves as legal consultant.

Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law (regularly since 2015) and at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law (2022).

He has provided training and consultancy to governmental and judicial institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America (since 2013). He provided assistance during the 2022 and 2023 constitution-drafting processes in Chile.

He is the author of Constitution-building after the Arab Spring. A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press 2025) and European Constitutional Courts and Transitions to Democracy (Cambridge University Press 2020).