Biography
Sabrina Ragone is a Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Bologna, where she belongs to the Centro de Altos Estudios of the Representación en la República Argentina of the University, and to the Scientific Committee of the Collegio Superiore; she is also the head of the Stakeholder and Placement Committee of the Department of Political and Social Sciences.
Currently, she is a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the Department of Law of the European University Institute, in Florence. She is as well a Senior Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), where she pursued her research from 2015 to 2017. Previously, she was Investigadora García Pelayo at the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales in Madrid (2012-2015) and postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2011-2012).
In addition to her current roles, Professor Ragone has been visiting researcher and professor in the USA (University of Michigan, Texas A&M, Boston College, George Washington University), in Latin America, namely in Argentina (Universidad Austral, UBA), Colombia (Universidad Externado, Universidad del Rosario, Universidad Libre, Universidad de Los Andes), Ecuador (UDLA), Mexico (UNAM, FUNDAP); and in European institutions, in Germany (Universität Heidelberg, Goethe Universität Frankfurt), Finland (Rovaniemi), France (Université Catholique, Lille), Ukraine (Karazin Kharkiv National University), and Spain (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad de Granada, Universidad de Jaén, Universidad Complutense, Universidad de Cáceres, Universidad de Sevilla).
She has been the Principal Investigator of several competitive projects. Since 2023, she is leading the national project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, SPACE “Swinging Peripheries And Centers in Europe: Comparative Legal Dimensions of Territory”, which involves five Universities of the country. In 2023 she was also awarded the Jean Monnet Chair ROLLBACK “Rule of Law Backsliding in Europe” and previously the Jean Monnet Modules EU_SOCIAL “European Solidarity: Comparative Interdisciplinary Approach to Law, Politics and Social Challenges” (2022/2025) and CRISES “Critical Risks for Integration and Solidarity in the European Space” (2018/2021).
She has published several books (among which Ragone and Smorto, Comparative Law. A Very Short Introduction, OUP, 2023), and over a hundred journal articles and book chapters; she has edited six collective volumes and six international special issues, in English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, and Portuguese, delving into comparative methodology, constitutional adjudication, decentralization, European law, among other topics.