Giuseppe Arconzo is Full Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Milan, where he teaches Constitutional Law and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He is the scientific coordinator of the Human Hall Permanent Legal Observatory on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and serves as the Delegate of the Mayor of the Municipality of Milan for Accessibility Policies.

Gaia Patarini graduated with honors from the University of Milan in April 2023, with a thesis on disability rights entitled “Reasonable Accommodation as a Tool for Inclusion of Workers with Disabilities”. She is currently a PhD candidate in the national PNRR program “Image, Language, Figure”, curriculum “Social Inclusion”. Her research focuses on the adaptation of Italian legislation to the standards set by the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Federica Sammali holds a degree in European Studies from Aarhus University. She is a PhD fellow in the national PNRR program “Image, Language, Figure: Forms and Modes of Mediation”, within the “Social Inclusion” curriculum. Her PhD project, co-funded by Fondazione Triulza, examines the relationship between social and economic sustainability, analysing the synergies between social entrepreneurship and large corporations in addressing inequalities, fostering innovation, and advancing inclusion.

Beatrice Esposito graduated from the University of Milan in April 2024 with a thesis on migration law, focusing on European borders and Schengen reform. She completed legal traineeship at Studio Diritti e Lavoro, working on labour, migration and anti-discrimination law. Since October 2025 she has been collaborating with the Disability Human Hall Observatory within her PhD programme, co-funded by CBM Italia ETS.

Sara del Grosso is an administrative officer at AGENAS – Italian National Agency for Regional Health Services and a lawyer. She obtained a National PhD in “Public Administration and Innovation for Disability and Social Inclusion” at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. Her research focuses on healthcare administrative law and the rights of persons with disabilities.

Researcher in Comparative Public Law at the Department of Italian and Supranational Public Law, University of Milan. Her research focuses primarily on immigration law, the protection of cultural minorities, and judicial reasoning, approached from a comparative perspective. She holds a PhD in "Person and Legal Protections" from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, and has held research positions at the University of Florence as well as consultancy roles with UNHCR and the NGO Defence for Children, participating in numerous national and international research projects on children's rights, the rights of migrants, and immigration governance. She has published several peer-reviewed articles on these topics and, in 2021, the monograph "La diversità rivendicata. Giudici, diritti e culture tra Italia e Regno Unito. Uno studio comparato"("Claiming Diversity: Judges, rights and cultures between Italy and the United Kingdom. A Comparative Study"), Wolters Kluwer. She has been a visiting researcher at King's College London, City University of London, and the University of Utrecht at University College Roosevelt. Admitted to the bar since 2012, she volunteers at the legal advice clinic of the Associazione Progetto Arcobaleno.

Martina Fosca Rosa Bracale graduated with honours from Università degli Studi di Milano in October 2025, with a thesis entitled “The Principle of Non-Discrimination in the European Union: A Focus on Non-Discrimination on the Grounds of Disability.” She is currently collaborating with the Observatory Human Hall on the rights of persons with disabilities and is completing her legal traineeship at Diritti e Lavoro, a law firm specialising in labour law, immigration law, and anti-discrimination law.