Antonio D’Andrea was born in Cerchiara di Calabria (Cosenza) on 19 August 1958. He has been student in the Ghisleri College (Pavia) and graduated at the University of Pavia, faculty of Law. He then got a post-graduate diploma in Law of Environment and of Territory. He is Full Professor of Constitutional Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Brescia and a member of the Association of the Italian Constitutionalists. Previously he has been Researcher from 1986 to 1995 and Associate Professor from 1996 to 2000. In past years he had been teaching Public Law at the Academy of financial police in Bergamo, at the Faculty of Economics of the same University of Brescia, at the University of Venezia and at the University of Calabria. From March 2001 to January 2005 he had been legal advisor of the Committee for the Statute of the Region Marche. From May 2007 to March 2008 he was a member of the Council of Experts of the Special Committee for the Statute of the Region Lombardia. At present he is a member of the Didactic Council of the Research Doctorate in Italian and European Constitutional Law at the University of Verona. His major field of research concerns the State constitutional organization, focusing in particular on the concrete way of working of the system of government in Italy; the parliamentary law; the regional law; the matter of constitutional reforms and the “defence” of the Italian Constitution in force.