Stefano Rodotà | |
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Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 30 April 1992 – 4 June 1992 |
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President | Oscar Luigi Scalfaro |
Personal details | |
Born |
Cosenza, Italy |
30 May 1933
Political party |
Radical Party (Before 1976) Independent Left (1976–1992) Democratic Party of the Left (1992–1998) Democrats of the Left (1998–2007) Independent (2007–present) |
Alma mater | Sapienza University |
Religion | Eastern Catholicism |
Stefano Rodotà (born 30 May 1933) is an Italian jurist and politician.
Born in 1933 in Cosenza, to a middle-class family of San Benedetto Ullano (English: St. Benedict Ullano), he attended Liceo classico Bernardino Telesio in his hometown and later the Sapienza University of Rome, where he graduated in 1955 under professor Emilio Betti, an Italian jurist, Roman Law scholar, philosopher and theologian, best known for his contributions to hermeneutics.
He is the brother of the engineer Antonio Rodotà and father of journalist Maria Laura Rodotà, columnist for the daily newspaper, Corriere della Sera.
Rodotà was accepted to Sapienza University of Rome's law school, where he graduated in 1955.
He then became Professor of Civil Law at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he was conferred the title of Emeritus.
As well as giving lectures and seminars at several universities in the United States, Canada, Australia, Latin America, and India, he was a visiting scholar at All Souls College in Oxford and Stanford Law School. He later became a professor at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University Faculty of Law and collaborated with The Collège de France. Subsequently he was granted honorary degree by the Michel de Montaigne University Bordeaux 3 and the University of Macerata.