Marta Cartabia

Marta Cartabia (2017)

Marta Maria Carla Cartabia (born May 14, 1963 in San Giorgio su Legnano ) is an Italian lawyer . She is Professor of Constitutional Law and since September 13, 2011 one of the fifteen judges at the Italian Constitutional Court . In 2011 she was appointed by the then President Giorgio Napolitano . On December 11, 2019, she was elected President of the Constitutional Court. Marta Cartabia is the first woman to hold this office.

Life

Marta Cartabia studied law at the University of Milan ; In 1987, at the age of 24, Cartabia completed her law degree with top marks. The topic of her thesis was Esiste un diritto costituzionale europeo? (Is there a European constitutional law?) And your supervisor was the later constitutional judge Valerio Onida . After further studies abroad, from 1989 to 1991 in Aix-en-Provence with Louis Favoreu and in the autumn of the same year at the University of Michigan Law School with Joseph HH Weiler , she received a thesis on European integration at the Istituto Universitario Europeo ( Fiesole ). Your doctoral supervisor was Bruno De Witte . She then worked at various research centers and lectureships on public law .

In 2005 she was offered a professorship for public law at the Università di Milano-Bicocca . In 2008 she became a full professor of constitutional law at the same university.

In addition to her academic career, which she often taught abroad, she also researched and worked at the Constitutional Court and on a national and international level, including in EU committees. She is an expert in international law as well as in the integration of European and national constitutional systems. Since December 2017 she has been a substitute member of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe .

She is also an editorial and executive member of four legal journals: Rivista italiana di diritto pubblico comunitario , Quaderni costituzionali , Rassegna di diritto pubblico europeo and Revista Española de Derecho Europeo . Since 2009 she has also been co-director of the Italian Journal of Public Law .

Marta Cartabia is married, a Catholic and has three children.

Political debate

Cartabia, who in 2008 wrote the legal country report on homophobia and discrimination based on sexual orientation for the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights , was accused by various LGBT media of rejecting same-sex marriage and thus discriminating against same-sex partnerships after being nominated by Napolitano .

In a contribution to the book by Francesco Occhetta: “Ricostruiamo la politica. Orientarsi nel tempo dei populismi. ”(“ Let's rebuild politics. Orientation in times of populism ”) quotes Marta Cartabia from a sermon by the retired German Pope Benedict XVI. : "The compromise is the real moral of political action."

Honors and awards

On October 24, 2011, she was appointed Dama di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana on the initiative of Napolitano .

Web links

Commons : Marta Cartabia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Italy's constitutional court is headed by a woman for the first time
2. ↑ The social situation concerning homophobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in Italy (PDF; 202 kB), 2009, p. 3.
3. ↑ Selection: Giorgio Napolitano nomina nuovo giudice della Corte Costituzionale contraria alle nozze gay on queerblog.it, September 9, 2011; Marta Cartabia, il nuovo giudice omofobo della Corte Costituzionale , on gaymagazine.likepage.it, 13 September 2011
4. ↑ Francesco Occhetta: “Ricostruiamo la politica. Orientarsi nel tempo dei populismi ”, San Paolo Edizioni, 2019
5. ^ Entry on the Quirinal website