ARENA Antonio Ignazio

Antonio Ignazio Arena (Messina, 12/27/1989), is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the Department of Law of the University of Messina. He is qualified as Full Professor in the sector 12/C1 Constitutional Law (National Scientific Qualification 2021-23).

He was Senior Researcher (2022-2024) and Fellow Reasercher (2021-2022) at the same Department (sup. Prof. A. Saitta), in which he achieved the M.D. in Law (2012-2013), 110/110 cum laude and with a thesis in Theory of the State (sup. Prof. G. D'Amico) and in which, in 2018, he obtained the PhD in Legal Sciences, with a thesis on "The informal statements of public power" (sup. Prof. L. D'Andrea), with honors and certification of Doctor Europaeus.
He obtained in the a.y. 14/15 the II level Master in Parliamentary Institutions at the "Sapienza" University of Rome (Faculty of Political Sciences), with 110/110 cum laude (thesis in Parliamentary Law, sup. Prof. S. Ceccanti) .
In 2015 he was the Winner of the “Panarello” Scholarship for research in Constitutional Law.
In 2015/16 he carried out legal consultancy activities at the Senate of the Republic.
In the academic years 17/18 and 23/24 was invited as Visiting Researcher and Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Barcelona (Grupo de Estudios sobre la Democracia y el Costitucionalismo), with the Prof. J.M. Castellà Andreu. In the academic year 23/24 he was also invited for research activities at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Chicago (Illinois, USA).
Winning result of the Italian Association of Constitutionalist Scholarship (a.y. 18/19), among his publications can be mentioned the monographs "L'esternazione del pubblico potere" (ES, 2019), "Libertà e pluralismo nella formazione delle leggi costituzionali" (ES, 2021), "L'iniziativa parlamentare delle leggi" (Giappichelli, 2023) and "La prorogatio nella forma di governo dello Stato" (Lefebvre Giuffrè, 2026).