Francesco Palermo

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Francesco Palermo

Francesco Palermo (born October 11, 1969 in Bolzano ) is an Italian lawyer and university professor from South Tyrol .

biography

Palermo graduated from the University of Trento with a law degree, which he graduated in 1994. He then began to work as a research assistant at the Eurac Research research center and specialized in comparative constitutional law as part of a doctoral degree at the University of Innsbruck . In 1998 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the external relations of Italian regions . In 1999 he was admitted to the bar in Bolzano and took over as head of research at Eurac in the area of ​​constitutional issues. From 2001 to 2003, Palermo was visiting professor at the Vermont Law School , and since 2003 he has been an adjunct professor there . In 2004 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Verona , and in the same year he was appointed Head of the Institute for Research on Federalism and Regionalism at Eurac. In 2006 he was visiting professor at the University of Regensburg , 2007 at the University of Zurich , and from 2007 to 2010 he acted as an advisor to the Council of Europe and the OSCE . From 2014 to 2016 he was also President of the Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities at the Council of Europe. He has been President of the International Association of Centers for Federal Studies (IACFS) since 2016 .

In addition to his academic work, Palermo regularly comments on political events in South Tyrol in the Italian local press.

Palermo applied in the parliamentary elections in 2013 as a non-party candidate of the SVP / PD alliance for the direct mandate in the Senate constituency of Bolzano / Unterland . He received external support from the Greens and the Agenda Monti per l'Italia . Palermo was able to win the election with 51.8% of all votes, well ahead of the candidate for the MoVimento 5 position and thus succeeded the previous SVP Senator Oskar Peterlini . In the Senate he was a member of the parliamentary group "Per le Autonomie (SVP-UV-PATT-UPT) -PSI-MAIE", a member of the Constitutional Committee, the Committee on Policy of the European Union (2015-2016), the Committee on Protection and Promoting Human Rights and the Committee on Simplification and Vice-President of the Committee of Inquiry into Femicide and Other Forms of Gender-Based Violence. From 2014 to 2018 he was also a member of the 12th Commission and President of the 6th Commission, which are further developing the autonomy of South Tyrol . In December 2017, Palermo announced that he did not want to run for parliament again, which is why he left the Senate after the 2018 elections .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dissertation by Francesco Palermo (University of Innsbruck, 1998)
  2. ^ Parliamentary elections 2013 - counting of the votes of the Senate constituency Bozen-Unterland. (No longer available online.) Government Commissioner for the Province of Bolzano, February 25, 2013, archived from the original on February 28, 2013 ; Retrieved February 26, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wahlen.bz.it
  3. ↑ Lisa Maria Gasser: Resignation in the headwind . Article on salto.bz from December 22, 2017; accessed on December 23, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Palermo, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian lawyer (South Tyrol)
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolzano