Adelaide Madera received her Ph.D. in Ecclesiastical Law and Canon Law in 2000. She was an international scholar at the Catholic University of Leuven from November 1999 to May 2000. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Law of the University of Messina, Italy, where she currently teaches Canon Law, Law and Religion, and Comparative Religious Laws. In 2017 she received the National Scientific Qualification for the Full Professorship in Ecclesiastical Law and Canon Law.  She is a member of the Academic Board of the Ph.D. School in Legal Studies at the University of Messina and serves for the Editorial Committee of the Journal “Quaderni di Diritto e Politica Ecclesiastica”. She is the author of four books and several academic writings. Adelaide Madera’s research activities focus on the interrelationship between law and religion, specifically church-state relationships, religious organizations, and the law, religious and civil marriage.

Talk About posts by Adelaide Madera:

• Taking Judges’ Religion Seriously: Some Reflections Based on U.S. and Italian Cases