Francesco Lucherini is a Research Fellow at the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna. He previously held visiting positions at Central European University in Vienna (Austria), and Cardozo Law School in New York (United States).
Francesco’s research agenda focuses on the textual ramifications and normative access points for environmental state theory in comparative constitutional law. He inquires so from the specific viewpoint of the constitutional entrenchment of political economic deliberation (i.e., constitutional political economy or Wirthschaftsverfassung), as it pertains to founding visions of economic liberalism, environmental externality (in either compensatory or transformative terms), ecological integrity, and societal welfare.
His work has been published by high impact journals, including the American Journal of Comparative Law (forthcoming), German Law Journal, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, and the Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Comparative Constitutional Law. He is presently working on a monograph on comparative constitutional political economy as it intersects constitutional political ecology.