Education

Since October 2005 -  Professor of International Law in the Faculty of Law and at the School of International Studies of the University of Trento.
From 2002 to 2005 Researcher in International Law - University of Milan 
From 2000 to 2002 Research Fellow on "The multiplication of international tribunals" - University of Milan - with Prof. Tullio Treves (Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea) as supervisor 
From 1998 to 1999 Full-time Assistant Professor of Public International Law - Department of International Law and International Organisations - Faculty of Law - University of Geneva - Switzerland - Prof. Luigi Condorelli. 
From 1997 to 1998 Assistant to Prof. Dr. E.U. Petersmann at the Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales (I.U.H.E.I), Geneva - Switzerland, "International Economic Law and the GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement System" and "The Law and Policy of the External Relations of the European Union and their Connections with International Law and European Economic Law". 
1997/1998 Faculty of Law - Geneva, Switzerland - as holder of a scholarship awarded by the University of (Nov.1996)
1993 to 1997 PhD University of Palermo - University of Rome - Final thesis: "The Principle of Legality in the Community Order". Department of Public Law - University of Palermo - University of Rome. 
1993 Academy of European Law - European University Institute of Florence - Session IV; 3-week programme of Community Law (working languages: English and French). 
1992 University of Catania - Faculty of Law, Degree in Law; cum laude (4th May 1992): 110/110, summa cum laude, discussing a thesis on "State Aid to Enterprises and EU Competition Law", supervisor Prof. Avv. Mario Libertini, intellectual and commercial property law.
Academic career and teaching activities

Faculty of Law (University of Trento)

  • European Union Law (Master in Comparative, European and International Legal Studies (CEILS) in English)
  • National Security in the Perspective of International and European Union Law
  • European Union Sanctions and Legal Protection
  • International Law

School of International Studies (Trento)

  • National Security from an International and European Perspective, (IMSISS, International Master in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies - a consortium of European Universities) University of Glasgow, UK - Dublin City University, Ireland - Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic and University of Trento) in English
  • Seminars in English on various topical issues of international and EU law as part of the PhD in European and International Studies at the School of International Studies.
Research interests

- EU sanctions and the EU's common foreign and security policy
- Foreign Direct Investment and National Security
- National mass data surveillance programmes in EU Member States
- Sovereign wealth funds and economic security
- Forced localisation of digital data
- International and European cooperation on terrorism
- National security under EU and international law
- Interaction between EU and international law
Research work

December 2015, Research and documentation in the field of EU Sanctions and Judicial Review at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Cabinet Judge Antonio Tizzano, Vice President of the CJEU, Luxembourg

December 2014, Research and documentation in the field of EU Sanctions and Judicial Review at the Court of Justice of the European Union, Cabinet Judge Antonio Tizzano Luxembourg

Author of the study for the European Parliament "Trade and Investments in energy in the context of the EU common commercial policy", 2015

2007-Member of the PRIN (Relevant national scientific research program) "The Criminal Repression of the terrorist acts during armed conflicts"), co-ordinated by Prof. Fausto Pocar, Prof. Giuseppe Nesi.

2008- Member of the Research Project FIRB 2008-2011: "The impact of the biotechnology innovations on human rights: a interdisciplinary and comparative study".

Co-responsible of the research “The social dimension of the international commercial agreements", 2008-2010, University of Trento, Dept. of law.

Co-responsible of the research "Irregular migrants in international law and EU law", 2007-2008, University of Trento, Dept. of law.

Visiting professor (april-may 2008) at the FLACSO, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Buenos Aires, Argentina in the context of a research project EULATIN (Europa Latinoamérica Integración Regional), financed by the EU Commission

Member of the research project “Law and biotechnologies: a comparative study on the legal discipline of the genetic data", (“Accordo di programma CRS-UniTN Bando 2006”) – Co-ordinator Prof. Carlo Casonato, Università degli Studi di Trento.

2005/2007   Member of the research team of the “Project on Non-Compliance Mechanisms

and the Effectiveness of International Environmental Law” of the Universities of Milan, Bologna, Parma with the financial support of the MIUR (Italian Ministry for University and Research), co-ordinated by Prof. Tullio Treves

2001/2003   Member of the research team of the “Project on Civil Society and the Development of International Law” of the Universities of Milano, Brescia, Verona, with the financial support of the MIUR (Italian Ministry for University and Research), co-ordinated by Prof. Tullio Treves

2000/2001   Director of the Research Project, with the financial support of the University of Milan, on “International Cooperation and Environment Protection of Mountain Areas”

1999/2001   Research Contract – University of Milano – tutor Prof. Tullio Treves – Research on the “Multiplication of international tribunals”

1997/1998   Department of International Law – Law Faculty – University of Geneva – Switzerland, one year visiting student as winner of a tuition of the University of Catania (Nov.1996)

1997  Court of Justice of the European Communities – Cabinet Advocate General Prof. Giuseppe Tesauro
Memberships in societies and scientific committees

Member of the Italian Society of International Law (SIDI)

Member of the European Law Institute (ELI)

Member of De componendis cifris (Italian Society of Cryptography
Awards and honours

1997 - Winner of a grant of the Consiglio Nazionale Forense in the field of European Community Law

1996 - Winner of an award for specialist studies in the field of the legal studies.
Conferences and lectures

5 October 2023, International Competition and State Aid: Modern Trade Wars, University of Trento

20 April 2023, Sanctions and 'trade wars' in international and EU law: the evolution of the EU sanctions packages against Russia, in Economic sanctions and counter-sanctions in international and EU law: established aspects and innovative practice, Università degli studi dell'Insubria

21 October 2022, The economic measures taken against the Russian Federation following the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Lecture "EU sanctions against the Russian Federation: between foreign policy, national and European security and human rights, University of Trento

9 February 2022, Hearing, European Parliament, INTA Committee on International Trade on the relationship between the proposed regulation on economic coercion and the blocking regulation in the area of sanctions

25 January 2022, Who's Afraid of Cryptography, De Componendis Cifris, Rome.

9 December 2021, The highs and lows of European sanctions in response to the crisis in Ukraine, Workshop on International Sanctions, University of Florence

30 November 2021, FDI Screening in times of Covid: broader and additional mechanisms, University of Trento - Conference 'Contemporary Perspectives on International Investment Law, 8th Expert Seminar: New Trends and Old Standards'.

13 May 2020 - The Control of Foreign Direct Investment in the European Union and the Protection of European Strategic Assets in the Context of the Covid-19 Emergency. Webinar on the impact of the Covid-19 emergency on trade, investment and transnational financial instruments. University of Teramo.

29 April 2020, The Concept of EU Security and Public Order - CELIS Symposium on EU Investment Screening - Maastricht University and SDU University of Southern Denmark. ERA.int

15 November 2019, The intersection between the security of the EU and its Member States and the screening of foreign direct investments into the Union - International Economic Law and Security Interests Conference - Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 14-15 November 2019.

16 September 2019, International Workshop - Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Accountability in the field of cybersecurity, cyber tools and automation in military operations (armed conflicts and hybrid warfare), University of Verona.


20 September 2019 (Organiser of an International Conference on EU Sanctions on the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran in a Comparative Perspective), EU Sanctions on Russia and Iran, School of International Studies, University of Trento

20 March 2019, International Conference - Information and Freedom of Expression in the Age of the Internet, Fake News and Disinformation in the Perspective of the European Union, Academy of German-Italian Studies - Accademia di studi italo-tedeschi, Merano

5 March 2019, Roundtable, Article 47 CFREU and the different facets of fundamental rights: how to apply general principles across the board, Fundamental Rights in Courts and REgulation (FRICORE), University of Trento

9 July 2018, Conference, Brexit, EU sanctions against Russia after Brexit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

24 May 2018, Workshop, Interpretation of multilingual treaties, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

24 June 2016, Security and Technological Innovation, Roundtable with Giampiero Massolo and Alessandro Pansa, Italian Standing Group on International Relations (SGRI), Fondazione Bruno Kessler, FBK, Trento

18 June 2016, The accession of the EU to the ECHR after the Opinion 2/13 of the European Court of Justice, Roundtable: Fundamental Rights in Europe, ECPR Standing Group, Trento SGEU Conference, University of Trento

13 May 2016, Bitcoin and other virtual currencies from the perspective of regulators, Bitcoin, Blockchain and their new frontiers" 12, 13 May 2016 - Department of Mathematics, University of Trento

28 April 2016 Syria: internal dynamics and the international scenario, discussion with Gianluca Parolin (Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, The Aga Khan University - London), School of International Studies, Trento

24 November 2015, The European and International Legal Responses to the Terrorist Attacks in Paris, School of International Studies, University of Trento

20 November 2015, Foreign Fighters and Terrorism: the Phenomenon of Foreign Terrorist Fighters, Accademia di studi italo-tedeschi, Merano 20-21 November 2015, The Fight against Terrorism in the Rule of Law, The Principles, the Supranational Level, National and Local Experiences

31 March 2015, Restrictive Measures in a 'Community of Law' - in the framework of the conference EU Sanctions in the field of the Common Foreign and Security Policy. Faculty of Law, University of Trento

30 October 2014, Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTF), during the session The Challenge of the Islamic State (IS): Syria - Iraq - ... School of International Studies, Trento

29 September 2014 The consequences of (hypothetical) independence for Scotland in its relationship with the EU - School of International Studies and Faculty of Law, University of Trento

13 September 2014 National Security and European Integration - Conference XXVIII of SISP (Italian Society of Political Science) - Section 8: International Relations - - - - University of Perugia

15 Apr 2014 - Panelist - Ukraine and Crimea - Law and Politics in the Relations between Russia and the West - Faculty of Law - University of Trento

4 Dec 2013 - Speaker - Datagate: between security, the fight against terrorism and the protection of personal data, School of International Studies - University of Trento

17 May 2013 - Panelist - The Common Foreign and Security Policy after Lisbon: the EU and the adoption of sanctions. - "Law and Diplomacy: Videoconference Dialogues between practitioners and scholars", organised by the Faculty of Law and the School of International Studies of the University of Trento and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Speakers: Giorgio Taborri - Counsellor, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 17 May 2013.

14 March 2013, Speaker - Presentation of the book The International Courts and the Development of International Law. Essays in honour of Tullio Treves, University of Milan.

18 February 2013, Speaker - Profili relative alla legge applicabile nelle controversie su strumenti finanziari derivati, during the Conference "Amministrazioni pubbliche e "derivati" in giudizio: un primo bilancio, SP.I.S.A., Bologna.

Speaker on "Gli stranieri nello spazio giuridico europeo" at the conference "La condizione giuridica dello straniero", Faculty of Law, Trento (23 March 2012)

Speaker at "La sentenza della Cassazione civile sez. un. 30 settembre 2009, n. 20935 sull'applicabilità dell'equo processo davanti alla CONSOB: una valutazione critica" at the Conference of the Italian Society of International Law (SIDI) "New challenges in the field of competition and state aid in the European Union: substantive problems and fair trial".

Speaker - "EU Regulation and ECHR: Mutual Relations and Influence on National Systems after Lisbon" at the Conference "Criminal Procedure and Fundamental Rights in the Multilingual Context of the European Union", Faculty of Law, University of Trento (27 January 2012)

29 November 2012, Speaker - "Innovations in International Criminal Justice: Terrorism as an International Crime" - Conference - "A Round Table Discussion: The Special Tribunal for Lebanon and its jurisprudence", American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

7 September 2011, Speaker "The Relevance of International Humanitarian Law Arguments in National Courts Decisions concerning Terrorism" Conference "Terrorism and International Humanitarian Law - The Repression of Terrorist Acts and the Laws of War", New York, Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations, 7 September 2011

The Asylum Policy in the EU between Harmonisation and External Relations (International Refugee Law, Refoulement and the Italy-Lybia Agreement)", Trento, Faculty of Law, October 2009

New developments in the communitarisation of private international law, recent developments, ("General Problems of Transnational Law and its Implications for the Companies in International Trade"), Bilbao, Spain, University of Deusto, 11 September 2009

"From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of Nice" (60 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), Trento, Faculty of Law, December 2008 "The Communitarisation of Private International Law, recent developments", General Problems of Transnational Law and its Implications for the Companies in International Trade Bilbao, Spain, University of Deusto, 18 September 2008.

Human Rights Treaties and the Italian Legal System, Buenos Aires, Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 9 May 2008

The Treaty of Lisbon and the European Integration Process, FLACSO, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 8 May 2008

Non-compliance Procedures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: The Interaction between International Law and EU Law', Speaker at the Conference: Non-Compliance Procedures and Mechanisms and the Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements, Milan, November 2007

Speaker at the conference 'International Regional Courts for the Protection of Human Rights: The European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Comparison", αlfa Dikia II Project, Trento, 14-15 June 2007 : "New developments in the mechanism for the protection of human rights under the ECHR".

2006 Speaker at the Conference "Protection of Human Rights (Activity and jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and its impact on national law)", Padua, 20 November 2006.

Speaker at the Conference "Law, Life and Technology", Levico Terme, 8-9 June 2006.

Speaker at the Conference "International cooperation in the fight against terrorism", University of Trento, 16 March 2006.

2003 Speaker at the Conference "Human Rights between Theory and Reality", University of Milan, 14 May 2003

2001 Speaker at the Annual Conference of the Italian Society of International Law (SIDI) "The Reform of the Judicial System of the European Union after the Treaty of Nice", University of Milan, 23 February 2001
Other work

Creation and development of the website  www.dirittoue.info

2009 - Participation in the context of the Permanent Mission of Italy to UN to the works of the 64th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in november 2009 - Follower of the works of the VI Commission (Legal) and, in particular, took part to the debate on the report of the ILC (International Law Commission); to the negotiations of the resolutions concering the universal jurisdiction and international terrorism. Participation ot the coordination meetings of the European Union on these topics.

From 2007 till 2013 - Coordinator of the Master's Degree of European and International Studies of the School of International Studies of the University of Trento. (MEIS, Master's Degree in European and International Studies).

2005-2009 Deputy - coordinator of the Ph.D. Programme in European and International Studies - University of Trento.

1999-2000 - European Court of Justice - Cabinet Advocate General (then Judge) Antonio La Pergola, Luxembourg
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