Silvana Sciarra (born 24 July 1948) is an Italian jurist and academic.

[2] She is the first woman elected by the Italian Parliament as a judge of the Constitutional Court.

Previously, she was a Harkness Fellow at UCLA and Harvard Law School (1974-1976).

She was a Fulbright Fellow and visiting professor at several universities, among which Warwick (Leverhulme Professor), Columbia Law School (BNL Professor), Cambridge (where she held the Arthur Goodhart Chair in Legal Science 2006-2007), Stockholm, Lund, University College London.

She holds a Ph.D. Honoris Causa in law at the universities of Stockholm (2006) and Hasselt (2012).