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Giovanni Maria Flick

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Giovanni Maria Flick
Minister of Justice
In office
17 May 1996 – 21 October 1998
Prime MinisterRomano Prodi
Preceded byVincenzo Caianiello
Succeeded byOliviero Diliberto
President of the Constitutional Court
In office
14 November 2008 – 18 February 2009
Preceded byFranco Bile
Succeeded byFrancesco Amirante
Judge of the Constitutional Court
In office
18 February 2000 – 18 February 2009
Appointed byCarlo Azeglio Ciampi
Preceded byGiuliano Vassalli
Succeeded byPaolo Grossi
Personal details
Born (1940-11-07) 7 November 1940 (age 83)
Cirié, Italy
Political partyDemocratic Centre (2013–present)
Other political
affiliations
Independent (1996–2013)
Alma materCatholic University of Milan
ProfessionJurist

Giovanni Maria Flick (born 7 November 1940) is an Italian journalist, politician, and jurist.

Career

Flick was born in Cirié, Piedmont, to a Catholic, half-ethnic German family, as the fifth of seven children.

He began his education at the Jesuit liceo, and gained a diploma in law at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. He then practiced (1964–1975) at the Rome tribunal, as a judge, then as a prosecutor, was a professor at the University of Perugia, the University of Messina, and, from 1980, the LUISS University of Rome, and also started a career as a lawyer. He contributed editorials to Il Sole 24 Ore and La Stampa.

He was Minister of Justice[1] in Romano Prodi's cabinet in 1996–1998, and presented the Italian Parliament with projects of organic laws meant to implement major judicial reforms which were almost entirely adopted by 1999 (including laws that made sentencing easier for misdemeanors). His experience as Minister got him named Italian representative to the European Commission of Human Rights, during the second Massimo D'Alema cabinet. In 2000, he was chosen by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi to the office of judge in the Constitutional Court of Italy.

References

  1. ^ "Ex-Nazi re-arrested after acquittal in massacre trial". Wilmington Morning Star. August 2, 1996. p. 3A. Retrieved 29 May 2011.