Bio
Susanna Mancini is Adjunct Professor at SAIS Europe
Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Bologna
Professor Mancini is Adjunct Professor, SAIS Europe, and Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Bologna. She is interested in the intersection of law and culture, and particularly in law and religion, gender and the law, reproductive rights, multiculturalism, the multilevel protection of fundamental rights, federalism and secession. She is a Vice-President of the Executive Committee of the
International Association of Constitutional Law. Professor Manchini was
Senior Fellow at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University (January-April 2018). Professor Mancini has served as visiting professor at Columbia Law School (2020), Hebrew University (Jerusalem) (2018), Fordham School of Law (NYC) (2015), the University of Toulouse, the Central European University (recurrent since 2009), the Interdisciplinary Center (Israel) (2019); also a Floersheimer distinguished fellow and visiting professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School (2008-2016) and a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute (2009); an invited speaker at several universities including Yale, Oxford, Columbia, Toronto, Montreal, University College London, and Queen Mary University of London. She holds a PhD, European University Institute (1995) and a JD from the Bologna School of Law (1991).
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Courses
- Multiculturalism & the Human Rights of Women
The first part of this course is designed to explore the complex inter-relationship between the quest for gender equality and multiculturalism, with an emphasis on the special dilemmas posed by religious systems which have or seek a significant measure of self-governance but do not accept liberal egalitarianism. The course, however, is not confined to an analysis of the "conflicts" generated by the anti-feminist and patriarchal nature of certain minority cultures, but seeks
gender/culture connections in broader terms, taking into account liberalism's own dfficulties in granting full citizenship to women. Questions to be examined include the following: Is the partnership of feminism and multiculturalism necessarily agonistic? In a culturally diverse world, what constitutes gender (in)equality? To which extent should democracies accommodate communal cultures inimical to liberal gender equality? Is there an emerging international and/or European model of accommodating cultural diversity which nevertheless adequately takes into account the gender dimension? The second part of the course analyzes the relationship between culture and the regulation of women’s sexual and reproductive rights, with special emphasis on domestic and sexual violence, abortion, and pornography.