At the 40th Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Constitutionalists (AIC), dedicated to the theme ‘The European Union compared with the Constitution of the Italian Republic’, the AIC awarded Andrea Conzutti the 2025 ‘Opera prima – Sergio P. Panunzio’ National Award for the best first monographic work on constitutional law.

The judging panel, composed of the Association's President Renato Balduzzi, Vice-President Lucia Scaffardi and Giorgio Repetto, awarded the prize to his book ‘Il governo della moneta nella prospettiva del diritto costituzionale’ (the governance of currency from a constitutional law perspective) (Giappichelli, Turin, 2024).

More than thirty years after the Maastricht Treaty (1992), which marked the advent of economic and monetary union, the volume addresses the issue of tensions between monetary power, exercised by the European Central Bank with full independence, and the democratic principle, in its representative dimension. 

Andrea Conzutti obtained his inter-university PhD from Trieste/Udine in ‘Law for Innovation in the European Legal Space’ under the scientific supervision of IUSLIT professors Gian Paolo Dolso and Paolo Giangaspero. He is currently a research assistant in the same department and a teaching fellow at the Department of Economics, Business, Mathematics and Statistics and at the Department of Humanities.