Andrea Danilo Conte was born in Gallipoli in 1966. In 1991 he declared himself a conscientious objector to military service and did his Civil Service, working to promote peace and non-violence. In 1993 he graduated in law at the University of Florence. Since 1996 he has been a member of the Florence Bar Association, and since 2009 he has been a member of the Register of Cassation Lawyers. He deals with labour and trade union law, assisting workers and trade unions in thousands of proceedings throughout Italy, before the High Courts and international bodies. He is a speaker and lecturer at numerous conferences on labour law, trade union law and constitutional law. Since 1993, he has been actively engaged in the areas of education and training for the
citizenship of young people, holding training meetings at schools, associations and voluntary organisations. As part of this activity, in 1999 he published the civic education book “La sfida della cittadinanza” (Piero Manni Editore), which deals with the issues of educating young people to active citizenship through play. In 2002, he began his collaboration with Rivista Critica di diritto del lavoro, from 2010 to 2013 he was the coordinator of the Tuscan editorial staff. In 2010, together with others, he founded the Centro Studi Diritti&lavoro, which still publishes the online magazine “Diritti&lavoro - Idee e strumenti per il sindacato”. He currently coordinates the editorial board of the magazine directed by Prof. Giovanni Orlandini. In 2021, he participates in the foundation of “CEING - Centro Studi iniziativa giuridica Abd El Salam”, of which he is currently a member of the national executive. In 2023, he publishes his first novel “Per giusta causa” (Edizioni Milieu), which in September 2024 is awarded the Di Vittorio prize as the best novel of the year on the themes of working class literature. In August 2025 he co-wrote, together with others, the “Manifesto for a Labour Law of Peace”.”