Professor of Comparative Public Law, University of Padova

Andrea Pin is a full professor of comparative public law at the University of Padova, where he is also the director of the Department of Public, International, and Community Law. Professor Pin has clerked for the Italian Constitutional Court and held visiting positions at several universities including Emory, Notre Dame, and William and Mary (United States); Bar-Ilan and Reichman (Israel); Lomonosov Moscow State (Russia); and Trinity College (Ireland). His academic articles have appeared in American, British, French, German, Italian, and Spanish journals. His scholarship has examined the relationship between Catholicism, Islam, and the secular state; religious freedom in the West and the Middle East; the notion of human dignity; and the challenges to freedom posed by artificial intelligence. His latest books are Religious Freedom Without the Rule of Law? The Constitutional Odysseys of Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iraq and the Fate of the Middle East (Brill, 2024) and Dignity in Judgment: Constitutional Adjudication in Comparative Perspective (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).