Giovanni Maria Flick
{{Short description|Italian judge}}
{{BLP sources|date=May 2011}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Giovanni Maria Flick
| image = Giovanni Maria Flick.jpg
| office = Minister of Justice
| term_start = 17 May 1996
| term_end = 21 October 1998
| primeminister = Romano Prodi
| predecessor = Vincenzo Caianiello
| successor = Oliviero Diliberto
| office2 = President of the Constitutional Court
| term_start2 = 14 November 2008
| term_end2 = 18 February 2009
| predecessor2 = Franco Bile
| successor2 = Francesco Amirante
| office3 = Judge of the Constitutional Court
| appointer3 = Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
| term_start3 = 18 February 2000
| term_end3 = 18 February 2009
| predecessor3 = Giuliano Vassalli
| successor3 = Paolo Grossi
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|11|7|df=y}}
| death_date =
| death_place =
| nationality = Italian
| alma_mater = Catholic University of Milan
| profession = Jurist
| party = Democratic Centre (2013–present)
| otherparty = Independent (1996–2013)
}}
Giovanni Maria Flick (born 7 November 1940) is an Italian journalist, politician, and jurist.
Career
Flick was born in Cirié, Piedmont, to a Catholic, half-ethnic German family, as the fifth of seven children.
He began his education at the Jesuit liceo, and gained a diploma in law at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. He then practiced (1964–1975) at the Rome tribunal, as a judge, then as a prosecutor, was a professor at the University of Perugia, the University of Messina, and, from 1980, the LUISS University of Rome, and also started a career as a lawyer. He contributed editorials to Il Sole 24 Ore and La Stampa.
He was Minister of Justice{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=87FOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iBUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6807,610576&dq=giovanni+maria+flick&hl=en|title=Ex-Nazi re-arrested after acquittal in massacre trial|date=August 2, 1996|work=Wilmington Morning Star|page=3A|accessdate=29 May 2011}} in Romano Prodi's cabinet in 1996–1998, and presented the Italian Parliament with projects of organic laws meant to implement major judicial reforms which were almost entirely adopted by 1999 (including laws that made sentencing easier for misdemeanors). His experience as Minister got him named Italian representative to the European Commission of Human Rights, during the second Massimo D'Alema cabinet. In 2000, he was chosen by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi to the office of judge in the Constitutional Court of Italy.
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Category:Italian male journalists
Category:Italian people of German descent
Category:Academic staff of the University of Perugia
Category:Ministers of justice of Italy
Category:Judges of the Constitutional Court of Italy
Category:Presidents of the Constitutional Court of Italy
Category:Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Messina
Category:20th-century Italian judges
Category:21st-century Italian judges
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