Damiano Censi
Damiano Censi holds a PhD in European Union Law and National Legal Systems from the University of Ferrara, where he graduated with distinction, and currently serves as a Legal Officer for the Emilia-Romagna Region. His academic work focuses on European economic governance, public economic law and the evolution of the Union’s ‘economic constitution’, with particular attention to budgetary constraints, financial stabilisation instruments and the relationship between the EMU and Member States.
During his PhD, he undertook international research placements at leading institutions, including the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt) and the United Nations University – UNU-MERIT (Maastricht), focusing on processes of economic and legal integration, public debt and European models of financial governance. He has also conducted research on the German economic constitution, whilst collaborating with the Forum of Quaderni Costituzionali on the analysis of cases pending before the Constitutional Court. He is a subject expert in Constitutional Law and Public Law Institutions in the Departments of Law and Economics at the University of Ferrara, where he holds annual seminars on Public Law and Economics as part of the institutional curriculum.
He was admitted to the bar in 2021, having completed his legal training in criminal and civil law. Alongside his academic work, Censi has been committed for many years to the protection of human rights, the promotion of a culture of peace, and the documentation of violations of international humanitarian law.
In addition to his long experience in the voluntary sector – in particular with the “Ernesto Balducci” Peace Centre, Libera and ARCI – he has worked on the ground with Mediterranea Saving Humans, contributing to the drafting of reports on human rights violations in Ukraine and the West Bank, through monitoring, non-violent intervention, legal analysis, documentation and the initiation of legal proceedings in the most significant cases.