Francesco Palermo CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM PERSONAL DATA • Born in Bolzano/Bozen (South Tyrol, Italy), 11 October 1969 • Full Professor, Comparative Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Verona (www.univr.it) • Director, Institute for Comparative Federalism, Eurac Research, Bolzano/Bozen (www.eurac.edu/sfere) • Lawyer • Journalist and columnist for the daily Alto Adige / Trentino (www.altoadige.it) • PhD in Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Innsbruck, 1998 • Degree in Law, University of Trento, 1994 • Language skills: German (excellent), English (excellent), Spanish (fluent), French (basic), Dutch (beginner), Serbo-Croatian (beginner) Specific Research Fields • Comparative, Italian and European Constitutional Law • Federalism, Regionalism • Minority Issues • European Integration • Italian, European and Comparative Regional Law • Legal Terminology and Translation • Constitutional transition in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe • Judicial review Expertise and Consulting • Comparative and European Constitutional Law • Minority Rights (language rights, political representation and participation, affirmative actions, confidence building) • Comparative Federalism and Regionalism • Regional Law Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol • Cross-border Cooperation • Legal Terminology and Drafting • Rule of Law in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe Affiliations • Member (2018-2023) of the Scientific Committee of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (http://fra.europa.eu/en/about-fra/structure/scientific-committee) • Member (2007-2010), First Vice-President (2012-2014) and then President (2014-2016) of the Advisory Committee under the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/minorities/default_en.asp) ( [email protected] www.eurac.edu/fpalermo [email protected] Francesco Palermo • Member of the Council of Europe’s Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-Government (http://www.coe.int/t/congress/whoswho/compo-charte_fr.asp) • Member (since 2006),Vice-President (2013-2016) and President (2016-2019) of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Centers for Federal Studies (IACFS) (www.iacfs.org) • Coordinator of the International Association of Constitutional Law’s (IACL) Research Group on “Constitutionalism and Societal Pluralism” (https://www.iacl- aidc.org/index.php/en/research/research-groups/constitutionalism-and-societal-pluralism) • Director of the book series "Studies in Territorial and Cultural Diversity Governance" (with J. Marko), Brill, Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden-Boston (http://www.brill.com/publications/studies- territorial-and-cultural-diversity-governance) • Director of the book series "Minderheiten und Autonomien" (with J. Marko), Nomos, Baden Baden (http://www.nomos-shop.de/trefferListe.aspx?action=reihe&reihe=201&rtoc=0) • Director of the book series "Ius Publicum Europaeum" (Cedam, Padova, Kluwer Italia, from 2012 ESI, Napoli) https://www.edizioniesi.it/pubblicazioni/collane/diritto_storia_filosofia_e_teoria_del_dirit to_207/eurac-research.html • SIPE (Societas Iuris Publici Europaei) (www.uni-potsdam.de/sipe-office/) • Vicepresident of the Euroregional association of public and European comparative law (http://www.jus-euroregionale.org/) • Member of the scientific committee of the Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso (www.balcanicaucaso.org) • Executive board of the association “Devolution Club” (www.devolutionclub.it) • Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Multilevel Federalism, Institute of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (http://www.issin.org/AboutCMF.asp) • Member of the Italian-German center for European excellence Villa Vigoni (www.villavigoni.it) • Board of the PhD course in European and International Legal Studies, University of Verona http://www.dsg.univr.it/?ent=organo&cs=625&id=725 • Association Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo (http://dpce.ulisse.it/DPCE_Home.html?1) • German-Italian Lawyers‘ Association (Deutsch-italienische Juristenvereinigung, http://www.dijv.org/) • Member of the Internationale Gesellschaft für Komparatistik und Kollisionsrecht (http://www.igkk.org/) • Scientific board of the on line review "European Diversity and Autonomy Papers" (www.eurac.edu/edap) • Editorial board of the Journal “Small States and Territories” (https://www.um.edu.mt/sst/editorialboard) • General Editor of the European Yearbook of Minority Issues (https://brill.com/view/serial/EYMO) • Steering committee of the journal “Der moderne Staat” (http://www.budrich- journals.de/index.php/dms/pages/view/herausgeber) • Scientific committee of the journal “Consumatori, diritti e mercato” (http://www.consumatoridirittimercato.it/) 2010-2012 • Advisory Board of the journal “Federal Governance” (http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/fedgov/about/displayMembership/93) • Scientific board of the journal “Treaties and Documents. Journal of Ethnic Studies” (http://www.inv.si/Dokumenti/dokumenti.aspx?iddoc=115&idmenu1=181&lang=eng) • Scientific and guarantee committee of the Alexander Langer Foundation (2008-2011) (2012-2018) ((2018-2022) (http://www.alexanderlanger.org/) • Scientific Board of the Journal “Sant’Anna Legal Studies” (STALS), Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa (http://www.stals.sssup.it/editors) • Scientific committee of the book series “Nuovi studi di diritto estero e comparato” (Devolutionclub, published by Maggioli) http://www.devolutionclub.it/category/nuovi-studi-di- diritto-pubblico-estero-e-comparato/ ( [email protected] www.eurac.edu/fpalermo [email protected] Francesco Palermo • Scientific committee of the journal “Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo” (https://www.mulino.it/riviste/issn/1720-4313) • Editorial board of the journal “Quaderni costituzionali” (http://www.mulino.it/edizioni/riviste/scheda_rivista.php?issn=0392-6664 “cronache dall’estero” – Germany and Austria) • Rete di eccellenza dell’italiano istituzionale (REI) (http://www.ittig.cnr.it/Rei.html) (2006-2016) • External member of Transjus – Laboratorio di comparazione, linguistica e traduzione giuridica – University of Trento (http://www.jus.unitn.it/transjus/progetto.html)) • Bar association, Bolzano/Bozen (http://www.ordineavvocati.bz.it/) • Association of journalist of Trentino-Alto Adige (www.media-tnbz.it) (2006-2019) ( [email protected] www.eurac.edu/fpalermo [email protected] Francesco Palermo Education and working experiences Sept. 2019 (effective from Full professor for Comparative Public Law, Department of Legal Dec. 1st 2019) Sciences, University of Verona June 2018 – June 2023 Member of the Scientific committee of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (http://fra.europa.eu/en/about- fra/structure/scientific-committee) Nov. 2016-Nov. 2019 President, International Association of Centres for Federal Studies (www.iacfs.org) March-June 2015 Member of the Constitutional Commission for Ukraine, set up by decree of the President of Ukraine No. 190/2015 of 31 March 2015 (http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/19212.html) 2014-2019 Member and President of the joint committee for the implementation of the autonomy statute of Trentino-South Tyrol December 2013 Further qualification as full professor for comparative law (https://abilitazione.cineca.it/ministero.php/public/elencodomande/setto re/12%252FE2/fascia/1) March 2013 – March 2018 Senator – Elected as independent in the first-past-the-post constituency of Bolzano/Bozen – Member of the parliamentary group "Per le autonomie", Member of the Constitutional Committee, the Commitee on European Union Policies (2015-2016), and the Human Rights Committee of the Italian Senate, and the parliamentary committee on normative simplification – see http://leg17.senato.it/leg/17/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00029155.htm November 2012 Qualification as full professor for comparative public law (University Roma Tre, session 1-2008) (http://concorsi.uniroma3.it/docenti/ISess08/verbali/IUS21OrdSc Pol/Verbalefinale.pdf) 2012-2016 Member, First Vice-President and then President of the Advisory Committee under the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/minorities/default_en.asp) July-August 2012 EU short term expert on monitoring the rights of persons belonging to national minorities in the Republic of Serbia January-June 2012 Conducting the radio programme "Diritto e Rovescio", a series of 13 interviews (75 minutes each) on various legal issues. Rai Bolzano/Bozen 2011-2012 Scientific coordination of the project "LiberaMente", Provincia autonoma di Bolzano, Assessorato scuola e cultura italiana Since May 2011 Full member of the Council of Europe’s Group of Independent experts on the European Charter for local self government 1 September 2007 - 31 Senior Legal Adviser – OSCE High Commissioner on National August 2010 Minorities (www.osce.org/hcnm/) Spring Semester 2007 Visiting Professor, Vergleichendes Verfassungsrecht, University of Zurich 2007-2010 Member of the Advisory Committee under the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities ( [email protected] www.eurac.edu/fpalermo [email protected] Francesco Palermo (http://www.coe.int/t/e/human_rights/minorities/2._framework_conventio n_(monitoring)/3._advisory_committee/1._composition/1Composition%2 0ACFC.asp#TopOfPage) June 2006 Visiting Professor, Italienisches Verfassungsrecht,