Alessandro Ferrari is Professor of Law and Religions and Comparative Law of Religions at the University of Insubria (Varese and Como), where he currently serves as Director of REDESM. He is an associate member of GSRL (CNRS – Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités) in Paris and a member of the coordination committee of the PLURIEL – Linking Researchers on Islam and Dialogue network (https://pluriel.fuce.eu). From 2010 to 2024, he served as a member of the various Councils for Relations with Islam established by the Italian Ministry of the Interior. His research interests focus on the legal status of Muslims in Europe, the transformation of European secularism, and religious freedom across the two shores of the Mediterranean. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Religion and the Human, Indiana University (2023 and 2025); at the Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School (2019); Directeur d’Études invité at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris (2018); and Roberta Buffett Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University (2014). His current research project examines the development of the right to religious freedom across the Mediterranean, viewed through the prism of the legal treatment of the Muslim headscarf. His publications are available at: https://www.uninsubria.it/hpp/alessandro.ferrari
