Andrea Lollini
Senior Research Scholar at the UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science, and Health Policy
Bio
Professor Andrea Lollini teaches International and Comparative Health Law, and European Union Law at UC Law SF. He is also an Associated Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the in Italy. He received his PhD in 2003 from the in Paris (EHESS) and has had an extensive career in legal research with international research organizations such as the Justice of Paris (IHEJ) and (HiiL – The Netherlands).
In 2014, Andrea Lollini joined the UCSF- and developed interdisciplinary collaborations with the , the UCSF , and the . Since 2022, Andrea Lollini has been the Senior Principal Investigator of the Bench to School Initiative at the California Institute of Law, Neurosciences and Education which strengthens a 精东影业 of California multi-campus collaboration between UC Law SF, UCLA () and UCSF.
From 2018 to 2020, together with UCSF Professor of Neurology , the U, and the , Andrea Lollini was the Principal Investigator of the study: Language Based Learning Disability Prison Pilot Study. This pilot study aimed to assess the prevalence of Dyslexia and Language Disability in a Federal inmate population. Since 2020, Andrea Lollini has been the co-Principal Investigator of the study: Cognitive Diversity in California Juvenile Offenders: Quantitative and Qualitative Data on Impacts of LLDs in Life Trajectories. This pilot study investigates the prevalence of, and precursors to, trajectories of vulnerable youth with language-based learning disabilities in Californian juvenile justice system. The study was supported by the S.
Ongoing Research: Andrea Lollini鈥檚 interdisciplinary research aims to explore how fundamental rights are transformed and reframed by new developments in neuroscience. He specifically explores if atypical neurocognitive traits can be considered a new constitutional ground of discrimination, as well as how brain-based diversities can become the new frontier of equal rights (). Research in neuroscience increasingly suggests that health factors and socio-economic disadvantages聽prevent citizens from enjoying the聽Right to聽Health Brain Equality,聽or the聽Right to an Equal Neurodevelopment, an important consideration for social justice.听The聽co-occurrence of neurological conditions聽along with聽trauma, abuse, exclusion, stigma, discrimination, poor education, and homelessness, increase the probability of maladaptive coping behaviors. If individuals do not have a fundamental right to optimum conditions for healthy neurodevelopment, structural inequities driven by social determinants of health, such as lack of healthcare access, will continue to promote pathways to justice involvement. For these reasons, society bears the responsibility to facilitate brains developing healthily in children, to assist teenagers in transition into adult brain maturation, and to provide effective remediations for older individuals where needed.
Professor Andrea Lollini led the research project NEDBELS (Neurodiversity between Law and Science) inquiring into the legal impacts and socio-political implications of the concept of neurodiversity. This term pertains to individuals diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders such as Asperger鈥檚 Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder and hypothesizes the emergence of a new category of difference in the human population. NEDBELS explored how this concept challenges the constitutional principle of equality, as well as how it fosters the need to accommodate new principles in criminal and civil law. NEDBELS was funded by a 2015-2018 (EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation).
Prior to this effort, Andrea Lollini had extensive research experience in Comparative Constitutional Law and International Law. He widely published and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). He is the author of several essays on restorative and alternative mechanisms of justice. He also published research studies on the use of foreign law by Constitutional and Supreme Courts, as well as on contemporary Constitution-making processes.