Prof. Giuliano Amato

Giuliano AMATO, born in 1938, studied law at the University of , where he graduated in 1960. Master's degree in Comparative Law at the School of Law of (N.Y.) in 1962. Full Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Rome, School of Political Science, from 1975 to 1997, he is Professor Emeritus of the EUI in Florence and gives yearly seminars at the Law School of the N.Y. Columbia University.

Member of the Italian Parliament for 18 years, he was Under Secretary to the Prime Minister's Office, Minister for the Treasury, Minister for Constitutional Reforms, Minister of Interior, Deputy Prime Minister and twice Prime Minister (in 1992/1993 and in 2000/2001). He also headed the Italian Antitrust Authority from 1994 to 1997 and was Vice-President of the Convention on the Future of Europe (2002/2003) and Chairman of the International Commission on the Balkans, sponsored in 2005 by the Bosch Stiftung, the German Marshall Fund, the King Baudouin Foundation and the C.S. Mott Foundation. Currently he chairs the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana and the Center for American Studies in Rome. He also chairs the International Advisory Board of the Fondazione ItalianiEuropei.

In 2002 he has been elected Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He has written books and articles on the economy and public institutions, European antitrust, personal liberties, comparative government, European integration and humanities.

Selected bibliography

- Rapporti fra norme primarie e secondarie, 1962; - Il sindacato di costituzionalità sulle competenze dello Stato e della regione alla luce dell’esperienza statunitense, 1964; - Autorità e libertà nella disciplina della libertà personale, 1968; - L’ispezione politica del Parlamento, 1969; - Il governo dell’industria in Italia, 1972; - Economia, politica e istituzioni in Italia, 1976; - Commentario della Costituzione. Rapporti Civili (artt. 13-20), 1977; - Una Repubblica da riformare, 1981; - Duello a sinistra (with L.Cafagna), 1982; - Democrazia e redistribuzione, 1983; - Due anni al tesoro, 1990; - Manuale di Diritto Pubblico (with A.Barbera), 1st edition 1996; - Antitrust and the Bounds of Power, 1997; - Il gusto della libertà. L’Italia e l’antitrust, 1998; - The Protection of Public Interests and Regulation of Economic Activities, in F.Snyder, The Europeanization of Law , 2000; - The anticompetitive Impact of Regulations (with L. Laudati), 2001; - Le pensioni. Il pilastro mancante (with M. Marè), 2001; - Tornare al futuro. La sinistra e il mondo che ci aspetta (with F. Forquet), 2002; - Noi in bilico. Inquietudini e speranze di un cittadino europeo (with F. Forquet), 2005; - Forme di Stato e forme di governo, 2006; - Un altro mondo è possibile (with L.Pozzi), 2006; - Dialoghi post-secolari (with V. Paglia), 2006; - Costituzione Europea, in S.Cassese, Dizionario di Diritto Pubblico , 2006; - Constitutional Developments in Europe, in The Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies , 2006, - Unione: le tentazioni sbagliate, in Il Mulino 2007; - Genèse et destinée de la Constitution européenne, with H.Bribosia e B. De Witte (eds.), 2007; - The European Constitution. Cases and Materials in EU and Member States Law (with J. Ziller), 1st edition 2007 & 2009; - Il gioco delle pensioni: rien ne va plus? (with M.Marè), 2007; - Per i sessanta anni della Costituzione, in Riv.trim.dir.pubbl . 2008/1; - La Costituzione italiana fra le Costituzioni del dopoguerra, in Riv.trim.dir.pubbl . 2008/4.