Paolo Grossi (judge)
{{short description|Italian judge (1933–2022)}}
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|office = President of the Constitutional Court of Italy
|term_start = 24 February 2016
|term_end = 23 February 2018
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|predecessor = Alessandro Criscuolo
|successor = Giorgio Lattanzi
|office2 = Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy
|term_start2 = 23 February 2009
|term_end2 = 23 February 2018
|appointer2 = Giorgio Napolitano
|predecessor2 = Giovanni Maria Flick
|successor2 = Francesco Viganò
|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1933|01|29}}
|birth_place = Florence, Italy
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Paolo Grossi (29 January 1933 – 4 July 2022) was an Italian judge. He was President of the Constitutional Court of Italy between 24 February 2016 and 23 February 2018. Grossi served as Judge on the Court from 23 February 2009 to 23 February 2018.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.cortecostituzionale.it/jsp/consulta/composizione/presidenti.do |title=I Presidenti dal 1956 ad oggi |language=Italian |publisher=Constitutional Court of Italy |date= |accessdate=8 February 2019}}
Career
Grossi was born in Florence. He was a law professor before he was appointed to the Constitutional Court by the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano, on 17 February 2009. Grossi was sworn in on 23 February 2009.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.cortecostituzionale.it/ActionPagina_321.do |title=The Constitutional Court: Composition of the Court |publisher=Constitutional Court of Italy |date= |accessdate=29 January 2015}}
At the University of Florence he worked as a professor of History of Medieval and Modern Law.{{cite web|author= |url=http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140515294X.html |title=A History of European Law |publisher=Wiley |date= |accessdate=29 January 2015}}
Grossi was presented with the golden medal of the Italian Order of Merit for Culture and Art on 28 June 1985 and made Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic on 25 February 2009.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/DettaglioOnorificenze.aspx?decorato=5622 |title=Grossi Prof. Paolo |language=Italian |publisher=Office of the Italian President |date= |accessdate=29 January 2015}}{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/DettaglioOnorificenze.aspx?decorato=305905 |title=Grossi Prof. Paolo |language=Italian |publisher=Office of the Italian President |date= |accessdate=29 January 2015}}
He was an Honorary Editor of the University of Bologna Law Review, a general student-edited law journal published by the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna.{{cite web|url=https://bolognalawreview.unibo.it/about/displayMembership/157|title=Honorary Board|author=|publisher=Bolognalawreview.unibo.it|accessdate=29 August 2016}}
Works
- Italian Civil Lawyers: An Historical Profile (2002)
- Law between Power and the Judicial System (2005)
- Society, Law, State: A Recovery for Law (2007)
- The Medieval Judicial System (2008)
- First Lesson on Law (2008)
References
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Category:20th-century Italian jurists
Category:Academic staff of the University of Florence
Category:Academic staff of the University of Macerata
Category:Judges of the Constitutional Court of Italy
Category:Presidents of the Constitutional Court of Italy
Category:Recipients of the Italian Order of Merit for Culture and Art
Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic