Researcher

Professor Andrea Lollini teaches International and Comparative Health Law, and European Union Law at UC Law SF. He was also an Associated Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Bologna in Italy. He received his PhD in 2003 from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (EHESS) and has had an extensive career in legal research with international research organizations such as the Institute des Hautes Études sur la Justice of Paris (IHEJ) and The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL – The Netherlands). In 2014, Andrea Lollini joined the UCSF-UC Law Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy and developed interdisciplinary collaborations with the UCSF Department of Neurology, the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, and the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Since 2022, Andrea Lollini has been the Senior Principal Investigator of the UC Law SF Bench to School Initiative. Andrea Lollini’s 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 (Brain Equality)