Valentina Rita Scotti is an Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law at the European Law and Governance University of the European Public Law Organization in Rome, Italy. She also lectures at LUISS University (Rome, Italy) and serves as an international professor at New Vision University in Tbilisi, Georgia. Holding a Ph.D. from the University of Siena, she has taught and conducted research at prestigious institutions including Koç University Law School in Istanbul, Türkiye, and Science-Po in Menton, France.
Her academic work spans comparative constitutional law, gender studies, and the legal systems of the Mediterranean, with a particular focus on Türkiye. She co-chairs the “Gender and Constitutions” research group within the International Association of Constitutional Law and is an active member of several international research centers, including the KOC-KAM (Koç University) and CESP (LUISS). Among her publications are Il Costituzionalismo in Turchia fra identità nazionale e circolazione dei modelli (2014), La Turchia di Erdoğan (2022), Constitutional Law and Politics in Türkiye from Ataturk to Erdogan (2025).