Valerio OnidaProf. Valerio Onida was born on 30 March 1936. He has been professor of Constitutional Law in the University of Milan, Faculty of Law, since 1983. Previously he had been teaching in the Universities of Verona, Sassari, Pavia and Bologna. He has been ustice in the Italian Constitutional Court from 1996 to 2005, and President of the same Court in the last four months of his term. He is presently President of the Italian School for Judiciary. His research activity covers different branches of the Italian Constitutional law, namely the budget process and the spending power, the working of the Italian system of Government, the Italian Regional system and the constitutional adjudication. Among his publications: Pubblica amministrazione e costituzionalità delle leggi (Milano, 1967); Le leggi di spesa nella Costituzione (Milano, 1969); L'applicazione della Costituzione fra magistratura e Corte costituzionale, in Scritti per Mortati (Milano, 1977); 'Costituzione italiana' e 'Costituzione provvisoria', in Digesto delle discipline pubblicistiche (Torino, 1990); Il giudizio di costituzionalità delle leggi. Materiali di giustizia costituzionale. I. Il giudizio in via incidentale (Torino, 1998); La Costituzione (Bologna, 2007, 2nd ed.); Compendio di diritto costituzionale (2nd ed.) with M. Pedrazza Gorlero (Milan, 2011). Read More Read Less