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Luca P. Vanoni

Luca P. Vanoni is associate professor of comparative public law at University of Milan, where he teaches U.S. constitutional law and comparative public law. He earned his PhD in public law from the University of Pavia, Italy, in 2005, and he was a visiting research fellow at City, University of London and Notre Dame University (USA). He is the Italian editor of the American Society of Comparative Law; an external fellow of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law (CPICL), University of Queensland; and a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Moot Court Competition in Law and Religion. He is also a member of several Italian and international research centers and consortia on law and religion, such as ICLARS and EUARE. His research interests lie in the areas of law and religion, immigration law, separation of powers, and federalism. He has authored or coauthored several works both in Italian and in English, including Pluralismo religioso e Stato (post) secolare (Giappichelli 2016); “From the Secularization Theory to the Pluralist Approach: Reconciling Religious Traditions and Modernity in Italian Case-Law” (in Law, Religion and Traditions (Jessica Giles, Andrea Pin & Frank Ravitch eds., Springer 2018); and “Catholicism, Liberalism, and Populism,” 46 BYU Law Review 11 (2021) (with Andrea Pin).