Marco Croce (La Spezia, 1974) is an Associate Professor of Law and Religion in the Department of Legal Studies at the University of Florence, where he teaches Ecclesiastical Law, Canon Law, Law and Religions, and Comparative Ecclesiastical Law.
He is the author of the monograph "Religious Freedom in the Italian Constitutional Order," Pisa, ETS, 2012, and of over 70 scholarly publications in leading Italian journals. He has also edited the volumes "30 Years of State Secularism: Was It True Glory?", Rome, Nessun Dogma, 2021 (with A. Cardone); "The Fabbricerie. Legal Nature of a Secular Institution," Turin, Giappichelli, 2021; and "The Protection of Minors between Law and Religion," Rome, Nessun Dogma, 2024 (with A. Gorgoni).
He has been the scientific director of research projects on "The Legal Status of Non-Believers and Non-Confessional Philosophical Associations in Council of Europe Countries," "New 'Religious Geography' and the Exercise of Religious Freedom in the Workplace," "Islamic Finance and the Ummah: Developments and Opportunities in the National System," and "Study of the Urban Impact of Jubilee 2025."