Maria Giusti

Maria Giusti is Assistant Professor of Administrative Law at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca and Adjunct Professor at Luiss Guido Carli University of Rome, where in 2026 she teaches Culture, Policy and Society and Heritage, Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development Policies.
 

She graduated cum laude in Law from Sapienza University of Rome and earned a PhD in Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage from the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. During her doctoral studies, she spent one semester as a visiting scholar at the Institut de recherche sur le cinéma et l’audiovisuel at Sorbonne University and one year at the Sciences Po Law School in Paris. She also attended the CopyrightX course at Harvard Law School.
 

Before joining IMT as Assistant Professor, she held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Verona, where she worked on public economic law; at the University of Tuscia, where she contributed to a project on administrative law and anticipatory governance; and at Luiss Guido Carli University, where she took part in a research project on European resilience in the post-pandemic context.
 

Between the completion of her PhD and her postdoctoral appointments, Maria  worked as a legal officer at the Legislative Office of the Italian Ministry of Culture, where she was involved in the transposition of the EU Copyright Directive and in the reform of social security and welfare protections for performing arts workers.
 

Maria is the author of Lo Stato promotore di cinema in Italia e in Francia (Giuffrè, 2024) and has published on several topics in public law, including alternative regulatory instruments, motorway concessions, State aid to culture, and censorship.
 

Since 2021, she has been a member of the Istituto di ricerche sulla pubblica amministrazione (IRPA), where she contributes to the Observatory on the Digital State, and she also serves on the General Secretariat of the Italian section of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S).