It's my great pleasure to introduce Professor Silvana Shiarah, who is now a member of the Italian Constitutional Court, but was here for a year back in the 2000s as a good heart

professor and made a very significant contribution both to European law and to labor law

in the faculty. So it's a great pleasure to welcome you back.

She has been for many years a professor of labour law at the University of Florence, because

of our court duties, she now no longer is directly connected with the university, but

she's very much a scholar-turned-judge,

and therefore is going to give us an insight into the way in which the Constitution of

Italy has managed to survive 70 years now and the role the court has played in that particular survival.

So with great pleasure, can I introduce, Professor Suvana Shiazza.

Thank you so much. Thank you.

It is really quite emotional to be back in Cambridge and to see all friends.

So thank you for the invitation.

A great joy for me.

Yes, I'm talking about this anniversary of the Constitution,

which was actually last year, 70 years old, last year.

And it has been a step forward for the Constitutional Court,

as if the Constitutional Court started rejuvenating itself

because of the celebrations.

And we were discussing before John about this new attempt the Italian court makes to communicate

better with the external world through a journalist, through press releases, translations

into English of some decisions, which are not easy to

find on the website but they are.

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