Brief Bio

Ida Ferrero (PhD, University of Milan) is Associate Professor of European Legal History in the Department of Law at the University of Turin, where she teaches European Legal History in both Italian and English, as well as a course on Law and Humanities. She qualified as Full Professor of Legal History in 2025.

After graduating summa cum laude in Law from the University of Turin, she completed a legal traineeship at the District Office of the State Attorney (Avvocatura dello Stato) in Turin and passed the Italian State Examination for Lawyers. She obtained her PhD in Legal History from the University of Milan in 2015. She has held a visiting position at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France) and previously held teaching and research positions at the University of Turin and at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome.

Her research focuses on European legal history, the legal culture of the Savoy states, Jewish legal history, and the intersections between law, literature, and culture. She is the author of three monographs and numerous scholarly publications on the history of legal institutions, constitutional debates, and the legal status of Jewish communities in the Kingdom of Sardinia and nineteenth-century Italy.

She is currently a member of the Italian Society of Legal History, the Italian Society for Law and Literature, and the European Society for Comparative Legal History.