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)
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
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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/...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
Working Papers
Presentations
25 Sep 2023
State Immunities and Reparations for Core Crimes: The Italian Constitutional Court's Judgement No. 159/2023
Montagsrunde (früher Referentenbesprechung)
MPIL, Heidelberg, Germany
12 Jul 2023
Stranded Fossil Fuel Assets in International Investment Law: Socialising Losses by Politicising Commercial Risk?
Max Planck Climate Conference for a Sustainable Anthropocene
Harnack Haus, Berlin, Germany
07 Jul 2023
A Parallel Universe? The Multiple Functions of Investment Agreements before Domestic Courts
Workshop: 'The Rise of Domestic Courts in International Investment Law'
MPIL, Heidelberg, Germany
12 Jun 2023
The WTO's Fisheries Subsidies Agreement and Ocean Governance
Montagsrunde (früher Referentenbesprechung) (together with Dr. Christian Schultheiss)
MPIL, Heidelberg, Germany
04 May 2023
A New Generation of Investor-State Disputes in the Energy Sector? International Investment Law and the Energy Transition
Round table: "Sustainability, Green Transition and Climate Change"
University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy
06 Mar 2023
The Enforcement of TSD Chapters in the EU's FTAs: Towards a Paradigm Shift?
Montasgrunde (früher Referentenbesprechung)
MPIL, Heidelberg, Germany
23 Jan 2023
Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform in the WTO: Where Do We Stand Now?
Montagsrunde (früher Referentenbesprechung)
MPIL, Heidelberg, Germany
14 Dec 2022 - 16 Dez 2022
Stranded Fossil Fuel Assets in International Investment Law: Socialising Losses by "Politicising" Commercial Risk?
Italian Society of Law and Economics Annual Conference 2022
LUMSA University, Palermo, Italy
26 Oct 2022 - 28 Okt 2022
Investment Treaty-Governed Disputes before Domestic Courts
Workshop: The Rise of Domestic Courts in International Investment Law
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
08 Jul 2022 - 09 Juli 2022
The Necessity Defence in the Swiss Climate Protest Cases: The Dawn of a New Era for (Environmental) Civil Disobedience in Europe?
Conference: "Courts as an Arena for Societal Change"
Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
07 Sep 2021
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 Annual Conference 2021
European Law Institute, Vienna, Austria (online)
21 Jun 2021
Comfortably Numb? The Implementation of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment’s Sustainability Commitments and the External Dimension of the European Green Deal
Conference: “A Green Deal for the Globe: European Union External Action and the International Just Transition”
College of Europe in Natolin, Warsaw, Poland (online)
Honours
Scholarship 'Borse di studio universitarie', Istituto Nazionale per la Previdenza Sociale (INPS) (2015-2020)
Ph.D. scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (aa.yy. 2022-2023, 2024-2025)
Memberships
European Law Institute (2021- )
Italian Society of Law and Economics (2022- )
European Society of International Law (2023- )
Miscellaneous
Institutional responsibilities at the MPIL
Current
Co-coordinator, Dialoghi italiani (2023- )
Co-coordinator, Guest Integration Team (2023- )
Member of the organising committee, Max Planck Law Initiative Law, Climate Change, and the Environment (2023- )
Past
Internal Ph.D. representative (2023)
Languages
Italian, English, French, German
