She received her Ph.D. degree in "Comparative Law" at the University of Florence (2004) and has been visiting scholar at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland (1996) and trainee at the European Court of Justice (1996). She is currently teaching Public law; Comparative Constitutional Justice; Indian Law and Anti-Discrimination Law. She is a member of the board of directors of CIRSDe (Research Center for Women’s and Gender Studies of the University of Turin) and on the editorial boards of a number of Italian comparative law reviews. Her main research interests include comparative constitutional justice, public interest litigation, Indian law, gender equality and affirmative actions and has lectured in Italy and abroad in these fields.