SAN MARINO – The jurist Silvana Sciarra, former president of the Italian Constitutional Court, will hold the lectio magistralis on the occasion of the inauguration of the 2026-27 Academic Year of the University of the Republic of San Marino. The ceremony will take place on Tuesday 24 November, from 3pm, at the Kursaal Congress Centre.
The title of the speech will be “Rule of law and democracy, the relevance of European values”. Silvana Sciarra was the first woman elected by the Italian Parliament as a judge of the Constitutional Court, an institution of which she held the presidency in 2022 and 2023.
Until last March he presided over the Scuola Superiore della Magistratura, an Italian body that deals with the training and updating of professionals in the sector. During his academic career he taught at the Universities of Florence and Siena, at the European University Institute of Fiesole and in other Italian universities.
As a jurist he has also collaborated with the European Commission on research projects, especially on labor issues, a topic also at the center of his publications.
The lectio magistralis will be preceded by speeches by the Rector of the University of San Marino Paolo Pascucci, the Secretary of State for Education and Culture Teodoro Lonfernini, the representative of the technical-administrative staff on the University Council Romina Cecchetti and the student representatives Sofia Lepretti and Tommaso Mordenti.
