Federico Lenzerini (federico.lenzerini@unisi.it) is a Full Professor of International Law. He graduated in Law in 1998, obtained his PhD in International Law in 2003, and qualified as a Full Professor in 2017.
He is also a lecturer at the LLM Programme in Intercultural Human Rights at St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami, United States, and a lecturer at the Tulane-Siena Summer School on International Law, Cultural Heritage and the Arts. He is a consultant for UNESCO (Paris) and has participated in numerous international negotiations on the protection of cultural heritage on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was the Rapporteur of the Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the International Law Association and is currently the Rapporteur of the Committee on the Implementation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the same Association. He has been a visiting professor at numerous foreign universities, including the University of Texas at Austin, Charles University in Prague, St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, the Universities of Wellington and Waikato Te Piringa in New Zealand, Tulane University in New Orleans, the Romanian-American University in Bucharest, and the Central European University in Budapest. In 2011, he was a lecturer at the Academy of European Law of the European University Institute in Fiesole and is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Italian Yearbook of International Law, the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review, and the Cultural Heritage Law and Policy series (Oxford University Press). He has published seven books (including two monographs) and over one hundred academic articles.
Research Interests: Human Rights - Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Asylum Law and Refugee Protection - Protection of Cultural Heritage - International Humanitarian Law
Current Research: National implementation of the rights of indigenous peoples - Protection of unaccompanied foreign minors - Protection of the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples - International law and implicit human rights
Massimo Bianchi (massimo.bianchi@unisi.it) has a degree in Political Science from the University of Siena and works at the Department of Political and International Sciences (Research sector), conducting research into social, political and institutional history, the history of the Church, and local and regional history. Since the 2018/2019 academic year, he has been a lecturer in the History of Relations between the State and the Church at the Department of Political and International Sciences, where he has organised numerous conferences and seminars. He has been the supervisor and co-supervisor of numerous bachelor's and master's theses. Since the 2014/2015 academic year, he has been a lecturer in History of the Church 3 at the Santa Caterina da Siena Institute of Religious Sciences. He has participated in numerous national and international conferences and is the author of numerous publications. He is currently a member of the Task Force supporting the Rector's Delegate Prof. Gianluca Navone at the Penitentiary University Centre of Tuscany for the 2022-2028 academic six-year period.
Martina Semboloni (martina.semboloni@unisi.it) is employed by the University of Siena and is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Pisa, with a thesis entitled Doctors and Health Institutions in the Eritrean Colony, from Assab to Adwa (1881-1896). She is also a subject expert in Contemporary History and Demography at the Department of Political and International Sciences at the University of Siena. She graduated in International Sciences in Siena with a thesis on demographic history. Her research interests focus on the history of populations between the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular attention to health aspects, industrial and economic development, and the mobility of people. She has participated in national and international conferences and has given lectures and seminars in university courses. She is a member of SISSCO – Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History and is on the Executive Committee of ASMI – Association for the Study of Modern Italy.