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Giorgio Pino is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Law at the Law School of the University of Palermo; he graduated from the University of Palermo with a degree in Law (1996) and then received a LL.M. from the European Academy of Legal Theory (Brussels, 1997), and in Law and Computers from the University of Bologna (2001).
Professor Pino also holds a Ph.D. in Human Rights (University of Palermo, 2001), and served for three years at the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, Rome, 2002-2004). He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Edinburgh (1998), and a visiting research fellow at the University of Girona (2006), at the Columbia University (New York, 2007), and at Oxford University (2009).
Co-editor of Diritto & Questioni pubbliche, an international on-line journal on philosophy of law and public policy, of Ethos/Nomos, and assistant editor of Ragion pratica, Professor Pino has extensively published in Italian and foreign journals, such as Law and Philosophy, Doxa, Ragion pratica, Analisi e diritto, and is the author of the books Il diritto all’identità personale. Interpretazione costituzionale e creatività giurisprudenziale (il Mulino, 2003), Diritti fondamentali e ragionamento giuridico (Giappichelli, 2008), Diritti e interpretazione. Il ragionamento giuridico nello Stato costituzionale (il Mulino, 2010).
His research interests mainly concern privacy rights, freedom of expression, religious freedom, legal reasoning, theory of fundamental rights, and constitutional interpretation.