Paolo Mazzotti

Research Fellow

mazzotti@mpil.de
Tel. +49 (6221) 482-326

Main Fields of Research:

Public International Law; International Economic Law; International Environmental Law; EU Constitutional Law; EU Administrative Law

Academic Career:

09/2022 - : Research Fellow and Ph.D. candidate, MPIL (supervisor: Armin von Bogdandy)

  - 06/2023: Summer Course on the Law of the EU, Academy of European Law (AEL) - European University Institute (EUI) (Florence, Italy)

• Recipient of the Diploma of the Academy (Law of the European Union) (2023)  

 - 03/2024 - 06/2024: 'Donato Menichella' Research Intern, Banca d'Italia (Italian Central Bank) (Rome, Italy)

06/2022 - 07/2022: Intern, MPIL

04/2022 - 08/2022: Research Assistant, UN International Law Commission (ILC) (Geneva, Switzerland)

09/2021 - 06/2022: LL.M. in International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland) (summa cum laude)

 - 02/2022 - 05/2022: Legal clinic researcher, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (Geneva, Switzerland)

09/2015 - 12/2020: Master's Degree in Law, University of Trento (Trento, Italy) (110/110 summa cum laude)

 - 09/2015 - 12/2020: Affiliation with the University of Trento's Honours College, "Collegio Clesio" (Trento, Italy)

 - 08/2018: European Summer Course 2018, Europa-Institut (Universität des Saarlandes) (Saarbrücken, Germany)

 - 05/2019 - 08/2019: Intern, Embassy of Italy in Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan)

 - 08/2019 - 12/2019: Erasmus+ exchange, Maastricht University (Maastricht, The Netherlands)

 - 03/2020, 09/2020 - 12/2020: Research stay, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland)

Recent Publications

• The Necessity Defence in (the Swiss) Climate Protest Cases: Democratic Contestation in the Age of Climate Activism. In: European Law Journal 29, 393-421 (2023). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf...
  
• (European) Multilevel Constitutionalism to Govern Transnational Public Goods? A Reply to Petersmann. In: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (ZaöRV) 84, 141-156 (2024). https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.17104/0...
  
• Greening Global Trade: Enhanced Synergies between Climate and Trade Policies for Decarbonization. T20 Indonesia Policy Brief, 2022 (with S.K. Mohanty et al.). https://www.t20indonesia.org/wp-content/...
  
• Towards a Theory of Transnational Judicial Review in European Administrative Law. In: Italian Journal of Public Law 13, 350-391 (2021) (with Mariolina Eliantonio). https://www.ijpl.eu/wp-content/uploads/2...
  
• Stepping Up the Enforcement of Trade and Sustainable Development Chapters in the European Union's Free Trade Agreements: Reconsidering the Debate on Sanctions. European Law Institute's Young Lawyers Award 2021, 2021. https://www.europeanlawinstitute.eu/file...
  
• Restructuring the WTO Regulatory Framework on Industrial Subsidies: Sustainability, Free Trade and Prosperity. T20 Italy Policy Brief, 2021 (with Filippo Bizzotto et al.). https://www.t20italy.org/2021/09/08/rest...
  
• Transnational Judicial Review in Horizontal Composite Procedures: Berlioz, Donnellan, and the Constitutional Law of the Union. In: European Papers 5, 41-70 (2020). doi: 10.15166/2499-8249/373 (with Mariolina Eliantonio). https://www.europeanpapers.eu/en/e-journ...
  

Blogposts

• The First Italian Climate Judgment and the Separation of Powers: A Critical Assessment in Light of the ECtHR’s Climate Jurisprudence. Verfassungsblog, 22 April 2024 (with Moritz Vinken). https://verfassungsblog.de/the-first-ita...
  
• Rockhopper v. Italy and the Tension between ISDS and Climate Policy: A Missed Moment of Truth?. Völkerrechtsblog, 21 December 2022. https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/rockhopper...
  
• All That Glitters Is Not Gold(fish): Progress, Missed Opportunities, and Shortcomings in the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies. Völkerrechtsblog, 18 July 2022. https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/all-that-g...
  

Working Papers

• Le contrôle juridictionnel des actes administratifs transnationaux. SSRN, 2024 (with Mariolina Eliantonio, Simone Torricelli). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?...
  
• Comfortably Numb? The Implementation of Sustainability Commitments in the EU-China CAI. MPIL Research Paper No. 21-2022, 2022. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?...
  

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