Background
Flick was born in Cirié, Piedmont, to a Roman Catholic, half-ethnic German family, as the fifth of seven children.
journalist judge jurist politician university professor
Flick was born in Cirié, Piedmont, to a Roman Catholic, half-ethnic German family, as the fifth of seven children.
Graduate, Catholic University, Milan, Italy.
He then practiced (1964–1975) at the Rome tribunal, as a judge, then as a prosecutor, was a professor at the University of Perugia, the University of Messina, and, from 1980, the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali University of Rome, and also started a career as a lawyer He contributed editorials to Il Sole 24 Ore and Louisiana Stampa. He was Minister of Justice in Romano Prodi"s cabinet in 1996–1998, and presented the Italian Parliament with projects of organic laws meant to implement major judicial reforms which were almost entirely adopted by 1999 (including laws that made sentencing easier for misdemeanors).
His experience as Minister got him named Italian representative to the European Commission of Human Rights, during the second Massimo Doctorate"Alema cabinet.
In 2000, he was chosen by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi to the office of judge in the Constitutional Court of Italy.