Maria Alessandra Sandulli

Born in Naples in 1956, she graduated summa cum laude in Law from Sapienza University of Rome in 1977, where she specialized summa cum laude in Administrative Studies a year later. She started her academic career in 1977 at Sapienza University of Rome, and she became full professor through public competition in 1987. Since 2001 she has been full professor of Administrative Law at the Law Department of Roma Tre University, where she teaches Administrative Law II and Administrative Justice. From 2017 to 2020 she also taught Health Law at the same university.

In 2001, she was visiting professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, where she taught Administrative Law.

She has been a legal procurator since 1979 and a lawyer since 1984, qualified to stand before the Court of Cassation since 1985. She is the owner of a law firm specialised in administrative law and related matters of constitutional and European relevance.

She has been a full member of the Guarantors’ Panel on the Constitutionality of Rules of the Republic of San Marino, as well as a member of the Executive Board of the Advanced School for Public Administration at Roma Tre University (ASATre). She has been the national coordinator of the Specialisation Schools for Legal Professions (SSPL), Director of the SSPL at Roma Tre University, where she has also coordinated the Administrative Law Unit, and a member of the academic boards of several PhD programmes.

She has directed or served on the editorial board of various academic journals (among others, Il Processo, Federalismi.it, Il Foro Amministrativo), as well as various observatories (including, for Federalismi.it, the Health Law Observatory, the COVID-19 Emergency Observatory and the Transparency Observatory) and editorial series (such as Contributi di diritto amministrativo, ES, and Studi sulla giustizia amministrativa, ES).

She is currently on the editorial board of the journals Rivista Giuridica dell’Edilizia and Diritto e società. She is the editor of the Observatory of administrative case law for the journal Il Foro amministrativo, and serves on the scientific boards of numerous academic journals (including Rivista italiana di diritto pubblico comunitario), several editorial series (such as L’unità del diritto, Itinerari di diritto pubblico e di finanza pubblica, I report del CeSDirSan), and the Global Pandemic Network.

She was President of the Italian Association of Professors of Administrative Law (AIPDA, 2013-2016), the Environmental Law Association (AIDAmbiente, 2015-2020), and several research centres.

She has served as president or member of various technical committees tasked with drafting legislative proposals and examining legal issues, including the Committee for the drafting of the Code of Administrative Procedure, the Study Committee on Differentiated Autonomy, the Committee for drafting the Code of Public Contracts and, most recently, the Committee for the identification of essential levels of healthcare assistance, where she coordinated Subgroup 5 – “Health Protection, Nutrition. Sports Regulations”.

She has participated as chair or speaker in numerous conferences and training courses, including at the international level, some of which she also organised.

She has coordinated and participated in research projects, including some of international relevance, on topics related to public, administrative and health law.

In 2015, she received the “Aldo M. Sandulli” award.

She has authored over 250 publications (some of which are single-author volumes) in the fields of public and administrative law, both substantive and procedural. In 1989-1990, she edited the latest update of Aldo M. Sandulli’s Manuale di Diritto Amministrativo (15^th edition).

She has directed or edited numerous volumes, among the most recent of which are Trattato sui contratti pubblici, Milan, Giuffrè (1^st edition 2008, 2^nd edition 2019); Codice dell’azione amministrativa, Milan, Giuffrè (1^st edition 2010, 2^nd edition 2017); Princìpi e regole dell’azione amministrativa, Milan, Giuffrè (1^st edition 2015, 4^th edition 2023); and Il giudizio amministrativo. Principi e regole, Naples, Editoriale Scientifica (2024).

She has coordinated the Administrative Law and Administrative Justice sections of Treccani’s Libro dell’anno del diritto.

In her scholarly works and research, as well as in her teaching and professional practice, she has consistently devoted particular attention to aspects of EU law and conventional international law. In line with the growing attention devoted to health law in recent years, in 2020 she founded the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health Law Studies (CeSDirSan), which she also directed.