Role
Full Professor of International Law at the University of Verona.
Bio
After graduating in Law from the University of Florence in 1993 (with honors and the Soroptimist award), she continued her studies as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School, where she obtained an LL.M. in 1996, and a PhD in International Law from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1998. She is a lawyer (1996) and an accredited mediator with the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR, 2023).
Since 2012, she has been a full professor of international law at the University of Verona. She has conducted research and taught at several Italian and foreign universities, collaborated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on international and European Union law issues, and held positions at international organizations, including the European Committee of Social Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, and the United Nations, serving as UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of assembly and peaceful assembly, and as a legal expert on human rights at the Permanent Mission of Italy in Geneva.
His scientific activity concerns the main areas of international and European Union law, with particular attention to human rights and their interactions with other areas of global governance, including trade and investment, development, peace, new technologies and artificial intelligence .