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Paolo G. Carozza
Associate Professor of Law
Office Number: 321 Law School
Telephone: 574.631.4128
Fax: 574.631.4197
Email: pcarozza@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Sharon Loftus
Paolo Carozza’s expertise is in the areas of comparative law, human rights, and international law, and his extensive writings in these areas have been published in Europe and Latin America as well as in the United States. He is currently a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and in 2008 was elected to be its Chairman. At Notre Dame, he is the Director of the Law School’s J.S.D. program in international human rights law, and is also a fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. Professor Carozza earned both his A.B. and J.D. degrees from Harvard, and pursued graduate studies at Cambridge University and at Harvard Law School as a Ford Foundation Fellow in Public International Law. After law school, he served as a judicial clerk for the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia and worked as an associate at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Arnold & Porter.
Professor Carozza teaches regularly at the Post-Graduate School of Economics and International Relations of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy, and he has also offered courses at various other universities and institutes in the United States, Europe, and South America. In 2004 he was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer the University of Milan. In 2009, he will be a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School.
LAW70405, Comparative Legal Traditions
LAW70401, International Law
LAW70417, Intro to International Human Rights
LAW70816, Jurisprudence
LAW83429, JSD Seminar
LAW88703, JSD Dissertation
LAW73422, (The) Inter-American Human Rights System
Faculty Expertise Areas
- Comparative public law
- European and Latin American legal traditions
- International law
- Human rights law
Professor Carozza’s research and writing covers areas in international law, international and comparative human rights, European and Latin American legal systems, comparative legal methods, and theoretical approaches to international law and human rights.
Recent and representative works:
Books
COMPARATIVE LEGAL TRADITIONS IN A NUTSHELL (West Publishing, 3rd ed., forthcoming 2008) (with Mary Ann Glendon and Colin B. Picker).
COMPARATIVE LEGAL TRADITIONS: TEXT, MATERIALS AND CASES ON WESTERN LAW (West Publishing, 3rd ed. 2007) (with Mary Ann Glendon and Colin B. Picker).
Book segments
Human Rights and the Dialogue of Cultures, in OLTRE IL MULTICULTURALISMO. ALLE RADICI DELLA DIVERSITÁ (Javier Prades, ed., Guerini e Associati, forthcoming 2008).
Editor (with Marta Cartabia) and author of Introduction to, TRADIZIONI IN SUBBUGLIO (Rubbettino Editore, 2007).
The Priority of the Person: Some Critical Challenges Facing International Human Rights in the Next Generation, in KEY CHALLENGES TO THE GLOBAL SYSTEM 87 (Vittorio Emanuele Parsi & Andrea Locatelli, eds., Vita e Pensiero, 2007).
Sussidiarietà e sovranità negli ordinamenti sovranazionali, in CHE COSA È LA SUSSIDIARIETA’ 113 (Giorgio Vittadini ed., Guerini e Associati, 2007).
Il traffico dei diritti umani nell’età postmoderna, in IL TRAFFICO DEI DIRITTI INSAZIABILI (Luca Antonini ed., Rubbettino Editore, 2007).
La perspectiva histórica del aporte latinoamericano al concepto de los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales, in DERECHOS CONÓMICOS, SOCIALES Y CULTURALES EN AMÉRICA LATINA: DEL INVENTIO A LA HERRAMIENTA 43 (Alicia Yamin ed., Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo, 2006).
Sussidiarietà e diritti fondamentali: un contributo europeo al diritto internazionale?, in ESISTE ANCORA LA COMUNITÀ TRANSATLANTICA? 233 (Vittorio E. Parsi ed.,Vita e Pensiero, 2006).
Human Rights and Current Challenges to Peace, in LEO XIII AND PEACE (Pontifical Council on Justice and Peace, 2005).
Demos , Nomos and Globalization, in THE GOVERNANCE OF GLOBALIZATION (Edouard Malinvaud and Louis Sabourin, eds., Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 2004).
The Member States, in THE EU CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: POLITICS, LAW AND POLICY 35 (Steve Peers & Angela Ward eds., Hart Publishing Co., 2004).
Articles
Pluralism and Universalism in European Human Rights Law, in 8-9 CIVILTÀ DEL MEDITERRANEO 339 (Guida, 2005-2006).
The Universal Common Good and the Authority of International Law, 8 LOGOS: A JOURNAL OF CATHOLIC THOUGHT AND CULTURE 28 (2006).
L’idea di sussidiarietà, 22 IL NUOVO AREOPAGO 21(No.1/2003).
From Conquest to Constitutions: Retrieving a Latin American Tradition of the Idea of Human Rights, 25 HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY 281 (2003).
"They are our brothers, and Christ gave His life for them": The Catholic Tradition and the Idea of Human Rights in Latin America, 6 LOGOS: A JOURNAL OF CATHOLIC THOUGHT AND CULTURE 4:81 (2003).
Subsidiarity as a Structural Principle of International Human Rights Law, 97 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 38 (2003). Translated into Italian and republished as La sussidiarietà come principio strutturale dei diritti umani nel diritto internazionale, in P.G. GRASSO, ED., EUROPA E COSTITUZIONE (Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane 2005).
"My Friend is a Stranger": The Death Penalty and the Global Ius Commune of Human Rights, 81 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 1031 (2003).
Work in progress:
International human rights and democratic self-government.
The ideal and function of “human dignity” in the transnational borrowing of human rights norms
The principle of good faith and the interpretive authority of international human rights organs.
Amnesty laws and the interpretation of human rights treaties.
