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Nicolò P. Alessi

Minority Rights and the Law of Diversity
Comparative Federalism
Swiss and Comparative Constitutional Law

Nicolò P. Alessi is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Chair of Swiss and comparative constitutional law at the University of Neuchâtel and at UniDistance Suisse.

He was adjunct professor of Comparative Public Law, postdoc researcher at the University of Bern and the University of Aosta Valley, junior researcher at the Institute for comparative federalism at Eurac research and guest researcher at the Institute of federalism of Fribourg/Freiburg.

He holds a joint PhD in Law and European and International Law from the Universities of Verona and Fribourg/Freiburg (CH). His PhD thesis has been awarded the International Prize Giancarlo Doria for the best dissertation in Italian and Comparative Constitutional Law.

His main research interests are European and Comparative Constitutional Law, Diversity Accommodation, Minority Rights, Federalism, Gender Studies and Climate and Commons Governance. He has authored numerous publications, including a monograph and two edited books, on these topic areas.

Selected Publications

The Law of (Religious) Diversity and the Case of the Islamic Communities in Europe: Fragmented Theoretical Approaches and the Need for a Comprehensive Standpoint
N.P. Alessi, M.F. Cavalcanti in International Journal of Minority and Group Rights, no. 2/2026 (forthcoming)
Innovative Forms of Autonomy and the Role of Federalism: A Comparative and Theoretical Perspective
in N.P. Alessi - M. Trettel (eds.), Federalism and the Law of Diversity: The Theoretical Contribution of Federalism to the Explanation of Emergent Models for the Accommodation of Diversity, Brill, Leiden-Boston, 2025, 78-101