Areas of Expertise:
Brief Bio
Mia Caielli is an associate professor of “Comparative Public Law” at the Law Department of the University of Turin after serving as an assistant professor (2001-2015) and a research fellow (1997-2001). She received her Ph.D. degree in “Comparative Law” at the University of Florence (2004) and has been visiting scholar at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (1996) and trainee at the European Court of Justice (1996). She is currently teaching Public law; Comparative Constitutional Justice; Indian Law and Anti-Discrimination Law. She is a member of the board of directors of CIRSDe (Research Center for Women’s and Gender Studies of the University of Turin) and on the editorial boards of a number of Italian comparative law reviews. Her main research interests include comparative constitutional justice, public interest litigation, Indian law, gender equality and affirmative actions and has lectured in Italy and abroad in these fields.
Representative Publications
Books:
– Cittadini e giustizia costituzionale. Contributo allo studio dell’actio popularis (Torino: Giappichelli, 2015).
– Le azioni positive nel costituzionalismo contemporaneo (Napoli: Jovene, 2008).
Recent Articles:
– Public Interest Litigation: a Form of Popular Legislative Initiative?, 4 Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo (2014).
– Il diritto di partecipazione politica attraverso l’accesso diretto alla giustizia costituzionale: alcune considerazioni comparatistiche a partire dall‘acción pública de constitucionalidad colombiana, in J. Roa Roa (ed.), El modelo colombiano de control de constitucionalidad. Elementos para sua defensa, (Universitàdegli Studi di Trento: Trento, 2014).
– La tutela dell’orientamento sessuale in India tra giudici e legislatore: un anomalo self-restraint della Corte Suprema, 2 Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo – online (2014).
– Governo debole, giudiziario forte: alcune riflessioni sull’azione di pubblico interesse in India, Forum Quaderni costituzionali (2012).
– Attivismo giudiziale e utilizzo della comparazione giuridica in alcuni emblematici hard cases indiani e statunitensi, in M. Cavino, C. Tripodina (eds.), La tutela dei diritti fondamentali tra diritto politico e diritto giurisprudenziale: “casi difficili” alla prova, (Giuffré: Milano 2012).
– La devolution scozzese: il referendum sullo Scotland Act 1978 del 1° marzo 1979, in A. Torre, J.O. Frosini (eds.), Democrazia rappresentativa e referendum nel Regno Unito, (Maggioli editore: Santarcangelo di Romagna, 2012).
– The Increasing Role of Italian Regions in Combating Discrimination: the Case of Piedmont, (with V. Santostefano), in AA.VV, Equal is not enough. Challenging Differences and Inequalities in Contemporary Societies (Conference Proceedings) (PRCEO: Antwerp-Hasselt, 2011).
Courses taught at CTLS
- Affirmative Action Law (Fall 2015)
- Anti-discrimination Law in Europe (Fall 2015)