Brussels. The special guest of the event organised by the Italian Institute of Culture in Brussels on the occasion of the seventy years of the Italian Constitution, is Silvana Sciarra – the fifth woman to be a member of the Constitutional Court and the first to be elected by the Parliament in a joint session. Professor Emeritus of the University of Florence, Silvana Sciarra has taught at various universities, including UCLA and Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, and Cambridge. In 2006 the University of Stockholm conferred her the honorary degree in jurisprudence. Specialist in labour law, she is co-director of “Labor Law Journal” and “Industrial Relations” and member of the scientific committees of “European Law Journal”, “Comparative Labour Law and Policy Journal”, “European Journal of Social Law” and “Sociology of Law”. She has published studies and research in numerous Italian and foreign magazines. Her latest book, published in English, is titled “Solidarity and Conflict. European Social Law in Crisis”, Cambridge University Press, 2018. The appointment is scheduled for September 27th at 19:00 at the IIC. (9Colonne)
