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CURRICULUM VITAESARA PENNICINORicercatrice di Diritto pubblico comparatoDipartimento di Scienze giuridiche, politiche e Studi internazionaliUniversità di PadovaVia VIII febbraio 1848, 235122 Padova, Italiawww.spgi.unipd.itsara.pennicino@unipd.itResearcherCenter for Constitutional Studies and Democratic DevelopmentJohns Hopkins SAIS Europe at BolognaVia Belmeloro, 1140126 Bologna, ItalyTel. +39 051 4210371Fax. +39 051 4219806Website: www.ccsdd.orgEmail spennicino@jhu.eduShort BioDr Sara Pennicino is a non tenured Research Fellow of Comparative Public Law at the Universityof Padua, Italy. After completing a PhD in Comparative Public Law (2008) at the University ofSiena she became a first year postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Bologna’s School ofLaw. In the meantime, she also became an affiliated scholar of the Center for Constitutional Studiesand Democratic Development (CCSDD), where to date she holds the position of Research Fellow.She is the author of numerous articles published in Italian and international law reviews focusing on common law systems, with special attention to American constitutional law, Election Law, withspecial attention to Europe and Italy and is a member of the Board of Reviewers of ComparativeLegilinguistics (Journal for International Legal Communication). Her first book, based on her PhDthesis – regarding the use of the concept of reasonableness in the case law of the U.S. SupremeCourt and of the Italian Constitutional Court –, was published in March 2012. Her current academicwork addresses the role played by electoral watchdog bodies in transitional and post conflictcountries, with particular reference to countries that were assisted by the international community in organizing and conducting elections on the one hand, and solving electoral disputes on the other. In 2014, Sara Pennicino was awarded the National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor of Comparative Law.

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Sara Pennicino authored numerous articles published in Italian and international Law Reviews focusing on common law systems, with special attention to American constitutional law, Election Law, with special attention to Europe and Italy. Her first book, based on her PhD thesis – regarding the use of the concept of reasonableness in the case law of the U.S. Supreme Court and of the Italian Constitutional Court –, was published in March 2012. Her current academic work addresses the role played by electoral watchdog bodies in transitional and post conflict countries, with particular reference to countries that were assisted by the international community in organizing and conducting elections on the one hand, and solving electoral disputes on the other.

- Constitution Making;
- Transition towards democracy
- elections; political rights; electoral administration; electoral justice
- Militant Democracy and Democratic Decay
- Rule of Law
- constutional systems of the Western Balkans
- EU enlargement,
- rule of law conditionality in EU
- constitutional courts and Human rights standards
- Actions against Human trafficking
- Peacekeeping and Human rights
- Security sector reforms