Valentina Rita Scotti is Associate Professor in Comparative Public Law at the European Law and Governance School of the European Public Law Organization. She is also Permanent Visiting Professor at the Academia Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Artega, Mexico). Previously, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Law School of the Koç University of Istanbul, where she has hold corses in ‘Introduction to Constitutional Law’ and ‘Gender-based discrimination and Law’. At Koç University she is currently member of the Center for Gender Studies (Koç-Kam). Valentina Rita Scotti is also a member of the Centro Studi sul Parlamento – CESP of the LUISS – Guido Carli. At LUISS she worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science and as an adjunct professor in Comparative Public Law and History and Institutions of Islamic Countries.
Since 2018 she is a member of the Executive Board of the Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Constitutional Law and is a co-Chair of the Research Group ‘Gender and Constitutions’ of the International Association of Constitutional Law.
Among her research interest there are the evolution of constitutionalism in Turkey, legal cross-fertilization, the protection of fundamental rights in the Mediterranean countries and the protection of gender equality. On these topics she has extensively published. She is also the author of a monograph entitled ‘Il Costituzionalismo in Turchia fra identità nazionale e circolazione dei modelli’ (Maggioli, 2014) and of the volume ‘La Turchia di Erdogan’ Universale Paperback – il Mulino (2022).
Valentina Rita Scotti speaks Italian, English, French, Spanish and Turkish.
