Ciro Sbailò is full professor in the disciplinary scientific sector IUS/21 – Comparative Public Law at the International University of Rome, where he is also Dean of the Faculty of Political Science. With a background in philosophy, he undertook legal studies at the suggestion of Luigi Pareyson, at the end of the 1980s, after having had a series of conversations with the philosopher, later published in the form of an interview in a Catholic weekly. Simultaneously, he began an intense publishing activity, on the main current political issues of the 1990s, such as institutional reforms and the relationship between justice and politics. At the same time, he deepened his studies on legal and political culture in inter-war Germany as well as on English and American constitutionalism. After collaborating with the Chair of Human Rights and the Chair of the History of Modern Codifications at the Luiss University, with Paolo Ungari, on the latter’s advice, he began to take an interest in the constitutions of Islamic countries. Thus, between the end of the 1990s and the early 2000s, he began to delve into the themes of Islamic law, with the aim of framing them in the sciences of public law, in connection with themes relating to the relationship between globalisation and law. During this period he taught at the University of San Pio V (later UNINT) in Rome, the University of Malta and the University of Cordoba (Spain). From 2006 to 2016 he taught Comparative Public Law
