Prof. Stefano Osella

Prof. Stefano Osella

Assistant Professor

Deputy Director, Centre for Comparative and Public Law

PhD (EUI)
LLM (EUI)
MJur (Oxon)
LLB and MA in Law (Turin)

Biography

Stefano Osella is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law. He is a comparative public lawyer whose research spans socio-legal theory, equality law, and comparative legal theory. His current research interests lie in the mutual interaction and dialogue between the European Court of Human Rights and domestic courts. His geographical focus is primarily on Europe and South America.

Stefano has published widely in equality law and public law, with articles appearing in leading journals such as the International Journal of Constitutional Law and the German Law Journal, among others. His forthcoming monograph, Gender Diversity in Public Law (Oxford University Press, May 2026), examines constitutional and theoretical models for the regulation of gender diversity, with a focus on a plurality of jurisdictions from Europe, Latin America, and South Asia (India, Pakistan and Nepal).

Stefano earned his LLB and MA in Law from the University of Turin, Italy. He went on to complete a Magister Juris at the University of Oxford and a doctorate in Comparative Law at the European University Institute. Before joining HKU, he held academic positions as a Hauser Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU School of Law, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale (Germany), and a postdoctoral fellow at Bocconi University in Milan (Italy).