Violini Lorenza

She is a full professor of Constitutional Law and Comparative Public Law (Global Constitutional Law) at the Faculty of Law of the Università degli Studi di Milano, where she chairs the Single Guarantee Committee (CUG) and participates in the Academic Board of the Master’s Degree in Law and Sustainable Development and the International Doctorate in Law, Ethics and Economics for Sustainable Development.
She is a member of the Ethics and Research Ethics Committee of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) and was a member of the Commission for Institutional Reforms appointed by President Giorgio Napolitano (Committee of Experts). She also served on the Management Board of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union.
Her main research interests concern Constitutional Law from both a domestic and comparative perspective. She has recently focused on the implementation of Article 116, paragraph III, with particular attention to differentiation among ordinary regions. Among her most recent publications are Una forma di Stato a regionalismo differenziato (Milan, 2021), Academic Freedom under Pressure (Heidelberg, 2021), the contribution I costituzionalisti: Dal 2004 ad oggi (2024), and the essay Regionalismo differenziato: un cammino a ritroso in the Milan Law Review (2025).
She has participated in seminars and parliamentary hearings on constitutional reforms, including the direct election of the Prime Minister and the establishment of the Rome Capital Region (2024–2025). She concluded the international seminar Dialogue among judges on constitutional issues (October 2024) and took part in academic and professional events on differentiated autonomy and career separation. In February 2026, a conference was dedicated in her honor, titled Institutions, Society, Science: Constitutional Law in Contemporary Transformations.