Justin O. Frosini

JUSTIN O. FROSINI is an associate professor of comparative public law at Luigi Bocconi University, Milan, and an adjunct professor of constitutional law at Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe. He is also the director of the Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development in Bologna, Italy. Dr. Frosini is the co-coordinator of a research group of the International Association of Constitutional Law devoted to constitutionalism in illiberal democracies, and is a member of the advisory board of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Constitutional Law published by Oxford University Press. Dr. Frosini has been a visiting professor at the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico and at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada where, in 2010, he was awarded the European Union Centre of Excellence Visiting Scholar Grant. Since 2003 he has been the co-director of the Europe Union and Legal Reform Summer School held every July in Igalo, Montenegro. Dr. Frosini was also a member of a group of seven international scholars conducting case studies for a five-year project on constitutional design and conflict management in Africa funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. He received his PhD in constitutional law from the University of Bologna.

Dr. Frosini is the author of a book on the legal value of constitutional preambles for which he received the Excellency in Research Prize from Bocconi University in 2013. He has published extensively in English and Italian in the field of comparative constitutional law with particular attention to federalism, regionalism and devolution, Brexit and the European Union, constitutional justice and forms of government. Dr. Frosini is a regular media commentator and writes a trimonthly report on constitutional matters in the United Kingdom for Quaderni costituzionali, one of Italy’s leading constitutional law journals.