Alexiou, Elia
Elia Alexiou is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She holds a PhD in International Law from the University Paris-Panthéon-Assas, she has held several research and teaching positions in French universities and has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School. Elia has served the United Nations working for the Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth and for UNHCR Greece (on child protection in refugee camps and as a UNHCR-appointed Judge). Elia also holds a Master’s degree in Public International Law from the University Paris-Panthéon-Assas, a Law Degree from the University of Athens and is a member of the Athens Bar since 2011.
Berrino, Giorgia
Giorgia Berrino is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Law at the Department of Legal Sciences, University of Florence, and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Departments of Law, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and University of Ferrara. She holds a law degree cum laude and a PhD with distinction from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. She is a member of SIDI (Italian Society of International Law) and MACROCRIMES (Centre for European Legal Studies on Macro-Crime). Giorgia is the author of several publications on State immunity from foreign civil jurisdiction in the case of international crimes (see inter alia “Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est la Même Chose”: State Immunity and International Crimes in Judgment No. 20442/2020 of the Corte di Cassazione, in The Italian Review of International and Comparative Law, 2022, pp. 374-391). She is also a member of the legal team that brought an action against Germany to obtain compensation on behalf of the victims of war crimes committed by the Nazi-Fascists in Italy in 1944 (the Marzabotto massacre).
Boggero, Giovanni
Giovanni Boggero is an Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at the Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy. He holds a PhD (Doctor Europaeus) from the Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro". He was a DAAD Visiting Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Public Law (2015/2016). He has been a member of the Human Rights Committee for the Piedmont Region since 2024. His research interests include free speech, local government and the relationship between domestic law and international law. In 2018 he authored «Constitutional Principles of Local Self-Government in Europe» (Brill Publishing, Leiden).
Bufalini, Alessandro
Alessandro Bufalini is an Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy). Previously, he was an Assistant Professor (2020–2022) and a Research Fellow (2017–2019) at the same university. Before joining the University of Tuscia, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milano-Bicocca (2014–2016). He holds a law degree (cum laude) from the University of Bologna and a PhD in International and European Union Law from the University of Macerata. Alessandro Bufalini has been teaching Public International Law since 2014 and International Criminal Justice since 2021. He also taught International and European Migration Law (2019–2023) and Global Governance of International Security (2020–2023). In recent years, he has been a Visiting Fellow at several prestigious institutions, including the Amsterdam Center for International Law, the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies in London, and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He has published numerous articles and essays in collected volumes and in leading Italian and international peer-reviewed journals, and he is the author of a book on the relationship between the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court (I rapporti tra la Corte penale internazionale e il Consiglio di sicurezza, Napoli, 2018). His main research interests include international migration law and policy, the sources and the modes of individual responsibility in international criminal law, state responsibility and immunities, and the use of force in international law.
Cartabia, Marta
Marta Cartabia (Ph.D. in Law, European University Institute, Florence), is President Emeritus of the Italian Constitutional Court and Full Professor of Constitutional Law at Bocconi University, Milan. She served as Minister of Justice in the Draghi’s Government (2021-22). She has been visiting scholar and Professor in several universities in Europe and USA. She is member for Italy of the European Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe (also known as Venice Commission), serving as Vice-Presidente since December 2023
Emtseva, Julia
Julia Emtseva is an international lawyer from Kyrgyzstan and currently a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. She holds a PhD from the Free University of Berlin and an LLM from the University of Notre Dame Law School. From 2019 to 2024, Julia was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. Before starting her PhD, Julia clerked at different courts in Kyrgyzstan, including the Constitutional Chamber, and worked at organizations like the American Bar Association, the Ukrainian National Committee of the Red Cross, and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. She is also a visiting lecturer at the Riga Graduate Law School and the Catholic University of Lille.
Faraguna, Pietro
Pietro Faraguna is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Trieste, currently (2024) on leave to serve as a law clerk at the Constitutional Court of Italy. During the a.y. 2023/2024, he has been appointed as adjunct professor at LUISS University in Rome and as visiting professor at the Harry Radzyner Law School by the Reichman University (Herzliya, Tel-Aviv). Previously, he has been Emile Noël Fellow at New York University. His scholarship mainly focuses on constitutional identity. He authored academic publications on major national and international law journals (among these: Common Market Law Review, German Law Journal, European Journal of Constitutional Law, European Public Law). He presented his works in leading universities and research centers such as University College London, National University of Singapore, WZB Berlin, Bank of Italy, Universidad Complutense, Centro de Estudios Politícos y Constitucionales.
Fontanelli, Filippo
Filippo Fontanelli is Professor in International Law and Practice at the Law School of the University of Edinburgh, and adjunct professor at LUISS (Rome). He has worked with governmental and international institutions (including the Council of Europe and the Venice Commission) as consultant and counsel, and has participated in various capacities in proceedings before the Inter-American Court on Human Rights, the International Court of Justice and investor-State arbitration tribunals. Between 2016 and 2021, he was co-rapporteur of the International Law Association’s Committee on the Procedure of International Courts and Tribunals. He has been visiting or adjunct professor at the Universidad de la Sabana (Bogotà), Università di Bologna, University of Stockholm, Università Cattolica (Milan), University of Vienna, and LUISS (Rome).
Gattini, Andrea
Andrea Gattini is Full Professor of International Law at the School of Law of the University of Padova. He has extensively published in the fields of theory of international law, international responsibility and international dispute settlement. His recent publications include La sentenza n. 159/2023 della Corte costituzionale: un primo passo di ravvedimento operoso della Corte in tema di immunità degli Stati stranieri (Rivista di diritto internazionale 4/2023) and Time and International Adjudication (Brill, 2025)
Grunert, Marlene
Marlene Grunert studied law in Hamburg, Paris and Berlin, focusing on European and international law. She completed her legal traineeship at the Berlin Superiour Court, with stages in the cultural department of the German Federal Foreign Office and at PEN America in New York. In 2016, she joined the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as a trainee. Since 2018, she has been working there as a political editor, with a focus on legal topics, in particular the Federal Constitutional Court. In 2023 Marlene Grunert was a fellow at the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles. Since 2024 she has been working as a political correspondent in Berlin.
Kadelbach, Stefan
Stefan Kadelbach is a Professor of Public Law, European Law and Public International Law at Goethe University Frankfurt. He has been Dean of the Law Faculty at Goethe University since 2023. He is Co-Director of the Wilhelm Merton Centre for European Integration and International Economic Order and of the Institute of Public Law and a member of the Research Centre “Formation of Normative Orders”. He finished his PhD (habilitation) on administrative law under the influence of EU law in 1996. From 1997-2004 he was a professor at the University of Muenster. He was a guest professor and lecturer i.a. at the University of Virginia (1999), the European University Institute (2000), the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2002/03) and Chuo University Tokyo (2004). Since 2004, he is at the Goethe University. He was a member of the Cluster of Excellence 243 from 2007-19. From 2014-26 he was Rapporteur of the International Law Association’s Human Rights Committee. From 2017-24 he was co-chair of the ILA’s Committee of Human Rights in Times of Emergency. His fields of work include constitutional law, public international law, and EU law, with an emphasis on foreign relations law, federalism, multi-level governance, human rights, and general international law.
Klinkhammer, Lutz
Lutz Klinkhammer is Deputy Director of the German Historical Institute in Rome since 2017. After studying History, History of Art and Political Sciences at the University of Trier where he received his Ph.D. in Contemporary History, and after teaching and research periods in Cologne, Munich and Paris, he joined the German Historical Institute in Rome. He served as Consultant of the Italian Parliamentary Inquiry Commission on German War Crimes in Italy, of the Italian Commission on the Looting of the Library of the Jewish Community in Rome, he was a member of the Historians’ Committee established by the German and Italian Ministries for Foreign Affairs. He is member of the History Department and teaching at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His research interests cover especially the history of World War II, Fascism and National Socialism, Remembrance Cultures after 1945, Napoleonic Europe. Together with Alessandro Portelli he published recently the essay La fiera delle falsità. Via Rasella, le Fosse Ardeatine e la distorsione della memoria, Roma (Donzelli) 2024.
Lopes Pegna, Olivia
Olivia Lopes Pegna is Professor of International Law at the Department of Legal Science of the University of Florence. She is a member of the Italian Society of International Law and of the European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL). She is also a member of the Editorial and Scientific Board of SidiBlog and member of the Editorial Staff of Rivista di Diritto internazionale. Olivia is invested as “Esperto formatore” at the Italian School for the Judiciary (Scuola Superiore della magistratura). Her main area of research is private international law, with a particular focus on family matters, recognition end execution of foreign decisions, jurisdiction and access to justice. She recently published a monograph entitled “Accesso alla giustizia e giurisdizione nel contenzioso transfrontaliero” (Access to Justice and Jurisdiction in Transnational Disputes).
Merlo, Giulia
Giulia Merlo is an Italian political journalist, courrently working for Domani. She covers national politics and high courts. Beyond that, she writes a weekly newsletter on legal issues and published a podcast on notorious trials that made a change in italian legislation. She holds a law degree from Luiss University in Rome and spent time in Berlin through the Erasmus program, where she specialized in constitutional law and improved her German language skills. Before becoming a full time journalist, she worked as a criminal lawyer. She has contributed to several Italian publications, including il Fatto Quotidiano, La Stampa, Il Dubbio and L'Essenziale.
Oeter, Stefan
Professor Stefan Oeter obtained his law degree at the University of Heidelberg and subsequently held the position of research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and Public International Law in Heidelberg from 1987 to 1997. During this period, he completed his dissertation in 1990 and his habilitation in 1997. Since 1999, he is Professor of German and Comparative Public Law and Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg. He is a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg. From 1999 to 2017, he served as the German Member of the Independent Committee of Experts of the Council of Europe for the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, and from 2006 to 2013, he held the position of Chairman of this Committee. Presently, he serves as the President of the Historical Commission of the International Society for Military Law and the Laws of War. His current research interests encompass a range of subjects, including minority protection and human rights law, the law of armed conflict, the theory of international law, and international relations.
Palchetti, Paolo
Paolo Palchetti (PhD, University of Milan) is Professor of International Law at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, where he is the director of the Master on International Law and International Organization. He was previously Professor of International Law at the University of Macerata. He is the author of books and articles on various topics of international law, especially in the fields of the law of international organizations, the external relations of the European Union, international responsibility, international dispute settlement. Paolo Palchetti has held visiting positions at several universities. He is one of the managing editors of QIL-Questions of international law, member of the board of directors of the Rivista di diritto internazionale and of Diritti Umani e Diritto Internazionale, and member of the editorial committee of International Organizations Law Review and of OXIO-Oxford International Organizations Database. He advises States on interstate disputes and acted as counsel in several cases before the International Court of Justice.
Paulus, Andreas
Andreas L. Paulus has been holding the chair for public law, in particular international law, at the Georg-August University of Göttingen since 2006. From 2010 to 2022, he served as a justice of the German Federal Constitutional Court. Currently, he serves as a substitute member of the Venice Commission for Democracy through Law. His publications deal, inter alia, with constitutional law, international legal theory, the law of the United Nations, human rights and foreign relations law. Paulus is foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and Distinguished Fellow of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University Jerusalem. Among his numerous appointments, he is Vice-Chair of the German Branch of the International Commission of Jurists and member of the Council of the German Society of International Law.
Pavoni, Riccardo
Riccardo Pavoni is Full Professor (Professore Ordinario) of International and European Law in the Department of Law of the University of Siena (Italy). He serves as General Editor of the Italian Yearbook of International Law. He is Country Coordinator of Italy (with Daniele Amoroso) for the Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts. He serves as co-director of the Tulane-Siena Institute for International Law, Cultural Heritage and the Arts. He has been a visiting professor at various institutions, including Tulane University School of Law, Charles University in Prague, and the University of Amsterdam. He is a member of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) and the Società Italiana di Diritto Internazionale e di Diritto dell’Unione Europea (SIDI). His publications and research cover various areas of public international law, such as the law of international immunities, international law in domestic legal systems, treaty conflicts, environmental human rights law, international environmental law and international cultural heritage law.
Peters, Anne
Anne Peters is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg (Germany), and a professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Freie Universität Berlin, Basel (Switzerland), and a L. Bates Lea Global Law professor at the Law School of the University of Michigan. In 2020 she received a doctor honoris causa from the university of Lausanne. She is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and an associate member of the Institut de Droit International. She was President of the German Society of International Law (DGIR) from 2019-2023 and President of the European Society of International Law (2010-2012). Her current research interests relate to public international law including its history, global animal law, global governance and global constitutionalism, and the status of humans in international law. So far she has taught international law, human rights law, international humanitarian law, the law of international organizations, EU law, comparative constitutional law and constitutional theory, and Swiss constitutional law.
Piovesan, Flavia
Flávia Piovesan is a Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights at the Catholic University of São Paulo and in the Human Rights post-graduate programs of the Catholic University of São Paulo and the Catholic University of Paraná. She also teaches at the PhD Program (intensive mode) of the University of Buenos Aires. She is also Professor at the Academy on Human Rights at the American University Washington College of Law (Washington, DC). She holds a masters and a PhD in Constitutional Law from the Catholic University of São Paulo. She was a visiting fellow of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School in 1995. She returned to the program in 2000 and 2002. In 2005 she was a human rights visiting fellow at the Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford. In 2007, 2008, 2015-2023 she was a visiting fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany). From 2009 to 2014, she was a Humboldt Foundation Georg Forster Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. In 2018 she was Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She was a member of the UN High Level Task Force on the implementation of the right to development and a member of OAS Working Group for monitoring the San Salvador Protocol on social, economic and cultural rights. She was Commissioner, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Organization of American States (2018-2021) and Vice-President of the IACH (2020-2021). She was the recipient of the Humboldt Georg Foster Research Award in 2022.
Resta, Giorgio
Giorgio Resta is Full Professor of Comparative Private Law and teaches Comparative Legal Systems at Roma Tre University (Italy). Starting July 2022, he holds the position of Vice-President for International Relations. He is a member of the Board of the Italian Association of Comparative Law, an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, a member of the European Law Institute, an honorary member of the Italian Private Law Scholars’ Association. After obtaining a Ph.D. in private law from the University of Pisa (1999), he continued his education as a visiting scholar in the USA (Yale; Duke), in Germany (with fellowships from the Max Planck Institute in Munich and Hamburg) and in Canada (with a fellowship from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs). He has taught as visiting professor at McGill Law School (2010-2011; 2015), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (2009, 2010, 2013), University of Nagoya (JP, 2014, 2018), IDP Brasilia (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024). Co-editor of some renown Italian law journals (including "Il diritto dell'informazione e dell'informatica" and "Contratto e Impresa-Europa"), he is the author of more than 180 publications on the intersection of public and private law, with particular reference to the governance of technologies and the legal construction of the person, to intellectual property and new goods, and to the relationship between law and other fields of knowledge. He is particularly interested in the intersection between law and history and, in this field, he co-edited with Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich the following books: “Leggi razziali. Passato/presente”, Rome: RomaTr-Epress, 2015; “Riparare, risarcire, ricordare. Un dialogo tra storici e giuristi”, Napoli: Editoriale Scientifica, 2012.
Rosoux, Valérie
Valérie Rosoux is a Research Director at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS). She teaches International Negotiation, Politics of Memory, and Transitional Justice at UCLouvain (Belgium). She has a Licence in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Political Sciences. She is a member of the Belgian Royal Academy. Since 2021, she is a Max Planck Law Fellow. Her research interests focus on post-war reconciliation and the uses of memory in international relations. In 2010-2011, she was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington DC). In the past twenty years she trained diplomats, NGO workers, military officers, and students in Europe, Africa and the USA.
Sabato, Raffaele
Following his appointment to the Italian judiciary in 1991, Raffaele Sabato (Law, University of Naples; Political Science, University of Macerata; Master of Comparative Jurisprudence, University of Texas at Austin) joined Italy’s Court of Cassation in 2012. He has been an expert for the Council of Europe, contributing to initiatives aimed at promoting judicial independence, judicial training, and human rights in emerging democracies. Since the inception of the Consultative Council of European Judges in 2000, he has been a member, serving as its chair for two years. He has also been responsible for the European and international training of the Italian judiciary for several years and a contact point with the European Commission. A fellow of the European Law Institute, he has been a member of its Council since 2015 and of its Executive Committee since 2017. In 2019, he became the sixth Italian judge of the European Court of Human Rights. He has published extensively and lectured on comparative, international and EU law, human rights, civil and procedural law, and mediation. His areas of expertise include judicial status and judicial ethics.
Simma, Bruno
Bruno Simma is a Judge at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague. Before his appointment to the Tribunal, he had served as a Judge at the International Court of Justice from 2003 until 2012. From 1987 to 1996 he was a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. From 1997 to 2002 he served on the UN International Law Commission. From 2012 to 2013 and again in 2014 - 2018 he was a Judge ad hoc for Costa Rica in the International Court of Justice. From 2016 - 2021 he served in the same function in the Silala Case for Chile. Also before the Hague Court, Simma was Co-agent and Counsel for Germany in the LaGrand Case against the United States as well as Counsel for Cameroon in its Land and Maritime Boundary Case against Nigeria. From 2012 to 2015 he was a member of the Advisory Committee on Nominations of the Assembly of States parties to the International Criminal Court. He has also been, and currently is, an arbitrator in a number of inter-State cases and is also serving, in most instances presiding, in international investor-State arbitrations. Bruno Simma has had a long and distinguished academic career, as Professor of Law at the University of Munich for over 30 years and as Visiting Professor and since 2012 as a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School at Ann Arbor, U.S.A.. He is one of the founders of the European Journal of International Law, a co-founder of the European Society of International Law, and a member of the Institut de droit international. Together with Alfred Verdross, he co-authored Universelles Völkerrecht, one of the most influential textbooks in international law and, more recently, he was the principal editor of the leading Commentary on the Charter of the United Nations (4th ed. 2024). He has published, edited or co-edited several other books and is the author or co-author of around 160 academic contributions. In 2009, Simma offered the General Course at the Hague Academy of International Law. He has received honorary degrees from the Universities of Macerata, Glasgow and Innsbruck and the Manley. O. Hudson Medal of the American Society of International Law.
Skordas, Achilles
Achilles Skordas taught international law at the Universities of Athens (1991-2006), Bristol (2006-2016) and Copenhagen (2016-2018). He was Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg (2018-2023) and is now Senior Research Affiliate at the Institute. He has been a member of the Scientific Service of the Greek Parliament (1989-2006) and an advisor of the Greek Parliamentary Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC). He is a founding member of the Odysseus Network for Immigration and Asylum Law in Europe (since 1999) and a member of the Steering Committee of the Network of Legal Experts on Migration for West- and Central Africa, established by the IOM. He has published widely in the areas of geopolitics and international law, international dispute settlement, on European foreign policy and on migration and security. Among others, he is the co-editor (with L. Mardikian) of the Research Handbook on the ICJ (Elgar Publ., 2025).
Spagnolo, Andrea
Andrea Spagnolo is Associate Professor of International Law in the Law Department of the University of Turin, where he teaches Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law and is Director of the International Human Rights Legal Clinic. He graduated in Law cum laude in 2008 and received a PhD in International Law from the University of Milan in 2012. He qualified as Associate Professor of International Law in 2018. He has held visiting positions at various universities and research centers including the Max Planck Institute for European, International and Regulatory Procedural Law, the Amsterdam Center for International Law and the Human Rights Center of the University of Ghent. He is the author of two books and of more than sixty publications on several issues of public international law, including the law on States’ immunity. He was member of the Board of the Italian Society of International and European Union Law (2018-2021) and is currently member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law and of the Scientific committee of the International Humanitarian Law section of the Italian Red Cross.
Stefenelli, Julian
Born and raised in Germany, studied Law in Passau and in Milan. Since the beginning of his university studies he has been nourishing a great interest for Italy and the Italian Law and, due to this passion, he often has cooperated, also for longer periods, with Italian law offices. Before starting his working activities at Villa Vigoni in 2009, he was employed in a German-Italian commercial law office in Munich. At the same time, he did his PhD with a thesis on the creditors’ protection system in the Italian Law (Gläubigerschutz im italienischen Recht, ed. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2008). The binational orientation which characterizes his work at Villa Vigoni offers him the opportunity to use his previous professional experiences to foster the German-Italian relationships. He is in charge of all legal questions regarding Villa Vigoni and is responsible for the property administration. In addition, he is also concerned with the organization and realization of meetings regarding legal aspects.
Terzieva, Vessela
Vessela Terzieva is a lawyer specialised in international criminal law and a doctoral candidate at the University of Amsterdam. She has previously served as a Senior Legal Officer in Chambers at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Vessela has written on the topic of rights of victims of serious violations of international humanitarian law and sovereign immunity. She is the author of “The Right to the Truth in Atrocity Trials before Municipal Courts”, T.M.C. Asser Press, International Criminal Justice Series (expected early 2026).
Tzanakopoulos, Antonios
Antonios Tzanakopoulos is Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford and Fellow in Law at St Anne’s College. He has taught at Universities in Glasgow, London, Paris, Athens, and Beijing, among others. He will deliver a special course at The Hague Academy of International Law in 2026. Antonios is a general international lawyer and has published in the areas of state responsibility, UN law, sanctions, the law of the sea, international dispute settlement, the law of treaties, investment law, and others. Antonios acts as counsel before the ICJ and other international courts and tribunals, as well as domestic law, and advises states, international organisations, and other entities, out of Three Stone Chambers at Lincoln’s Inn, in London. He is the Secretary-General of the International Law Association.
Tzeng, Peter
Peter Tzeng is a Partner at Foley Hoag LLP, where he exclusively advises and represents sovereign States on matters of international law and international organizations. He regularly litigates cases before the International Court of Justice, where he clerked for a former President of the Court prior to joining the firm. He also represents States in inter-State and investor-State arbitration, and advises States on matters before the United Nations and other international organizations. Peter is a recipient of the Diploma of The Hague Academy of International Law and a graduate of Yale Law School and Princeton University.
Viganò, Francesco
Francesco Viganò has been Full Professor of criminal law at Università Bocconi, Milan since 2016. He currently serves as a judge of the Italian Constitutional Court, appointed by the President of the Republic on February 2018 for a nine-years term. Since January 2025 he has been Vice President of the Court. Before joining Bocconi and, later, the Court, he held a chair in criminal law at the Università degli Studi, Milan, and was Secretary General of the Société Internationale de Défense Sociale (2012-2018). He has been the co-founder of the legal “Diritto penale contemporaneo – Rivista trimestrale”. He has authored, co-authored or co-edited 14 books, among which a recent monograph (2021) about proportionality of penalties. His research currently focuses on human rights and criminal law, constitutional criminal law, medical law.
Volpe, Valentina
Valentina Volpe is Associate Professor of Public International Law and Director of the International and European Law School (IELS) at the Faculty of Law, Université Catholique de Lille (France), where she also co-directs the Master’s program in Human Rights, Security & Development. She is also an adjunct professor at Luiss Guido Carli University (Rome) and Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá), and has served as an EU expert since 2019. She is currently a Senior Research Affiliate and was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She has also been a visiting researcher at Yale Law School. Valentina holds a Ph.D. summa cum laude in Law and Legal Theory from the Italian Institute of Human Sciences (SUM) in Naples, now part of the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. Her research interests lie at the intersection of global, comparative, and international public law, with a focus on law and globalization, European non-state actors, human rights, and democracy promotion. She is co-editor, with Anne Peters and Stefano Battini, of the open-access volume Remedies against Immunity (Springer, 2021). She has taught as a visiting or adjunct professor at Sciences Po Paris, Católica Global School of Law (Lisbon), China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing), the University for Peace (Costa Rica), and the University of Mannheim (Germany).
