Monash Staff in Europe

Professor Vittoria Barsotti

Vittoria Barsotti  is a professor of comparative law in the University of Florence.  She is a specialist of comparative constitutional law, and the author of several books and articles in this field, among which one on the use of non-decision as a policy instrument by constitutional courts (L'arte di tacere, Torino, Giappichelli, 1999, pp. 345, with a foreward of G. Calabresi) and another on sexual orientation in the case law of the US supreme court (Privacy e orientamento sessuale, Torino, Giappichelli, 2005, p. 210). In 1998-1999 she taught comparative constitutional litigation at Northwest University School of Law, Chicago.