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Stefano Rodotà (born 30 May 1933, in Cosenza, Italy) is an Italian jurist and politician.

Academic Career
In 1955, he graduated from Sapienza University of Rome Faculty of Law.

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 also 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, in 2006 and also collaborated with The Collège de France. Subsequently he has been granted honorary degree by the Michel de Montaigne University Bordeaux 3 and the University of Macerata.

Rodotà is the Chairman of the Administrative Council of the International University College of Turin and also a committee member of the Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Polytechnic University of Turin.

Political Career
He joined the Radical Party led by Mario Pannunzio. In 1976 and in 1979 he refused to candidate for Radical Party which was leading by Marco Pannella. He was elected to the parliament from the Italian Communist Party becoming member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs. He reelected in 1983 and elected as the president of the parliamentary group of the Independent Left.

He has been selected as a Member of Parliament for the third time in 1987 and became a part of the first Bicameral Committee on institutional reform. In 1989 he became a candidate for Minister of Justice in the shadow cabinet created by the Italian Communist Party led by Occhetto. Later he joined the Democratic Party of the Left where he was later going to be their first president.

In 1992 he returned to the Chamber of Deputies where he was elected as Vice president. In 1989 he was elected to the European Parliament.

He is one of the authors of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. He is the chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Agency for Fundamental Rights of the European Union and since 2008, he leads the Law Festival in Piacenza.