Pia Acconci
is a Professor of International Law at the University of Teramo. She holds a PhD in International Economic Law. She has an extensive teaching and lecturing portfolio, covering topics on investment and health protection at various universities and international conferences. Acconci’s extensive publications focus on the intersection of international and EU law. She actively participates in and leads research and study groups, notably as co-coordinator of the sidi Interest Group on ‘International and EU Health Law’ since June 2016 and as a member of the ila Committee on ‘Global Health Law’ since 2015. In addition, she was the academic coordinator of the Jean Monnet module on EU investment law from September 2018 to February 2023.
David Collins
is a Professor of International Economic Law at City, University of London specializing in law of the wto and international investment law with a particular focus on digital trade and services. He is Co-Editor in Chief of the journal International Trade Law & Regulation and Series Editor for Routledge’s Insights on International Economic Law. He is admitted as a Solicitor in England & Wales and Called to the Bars of Ontario and New York.
Tarcisio Gazzini
is Professor of International Law at the University of Padova. He has also taught at the Universities of Glasgow and VU Amsterdam. Between 2014 and 2017 he co-directed a research project financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation on Foreign Investment in Africa: Gaining Development Momentum. He’s the author of Interpretation of Investment International Treaties (Hart, 2016) and a founding member of the book series International Investment Law (Brill).
Marco Grantaliano
is an associate at the Brussels office of Gianni & Origoni. He graduated from the University of Rome – La Sapienza and the College of Europe (Bruges), with an llm in European Law and Economic Analysis. He was legal and economic consultant at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. He joined Gianni & Origoni’s Antitrust and Regulatory team in 2021. He specializes in EU and Italian competition law, with a focus on State aid control and foreign direct
Silvina González Napolitano
is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Buenos Aires and University Torcuato Di Tella. As an expert in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina she has participated in the negotiation of several investment treaties. She also acts as arbitrator in investment arbitration. In the past, she worked in the Argentine Treasury Attorney General’s Office, first as counsel and then as Director of the National Directorate of International Affairs and Controversies, where she represented Argentina in about 50 investment arbitrations.
Gian Maria Farnelli
is Associate Professor of International Law at the Department of Legal Studies, University of Bologna. He has been counsel and research assistant for Italy in inter-state disputes and research assistant to arbitrators in investor-state disputes. He has been a member of the Italian delegation during the Intergovernmental Conference on the negotiation of the Agreement on biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. His publications, in Italian and English, address issues of law of the sea, environmental law, State immunity, investment law and the law of international adjudication.
Jens Hillebrand Pohl
is an Adjunct Professor at Maastricht University and the United Nations University. An experienced attorney, having practiced before U.S. federal and state courts in New York and for EU institutions, Jens holds an ll.m. from Harvard Law School and a MSc in Economics and Business from Stockholm School of Economics, and is pursuing two PhDs in law and political science at Maastricht University and Tampere University, respectively. He is the founding series editor of Springer Studies in Law & Geoeconomics and a former article editor of the Harvard International Law Journal.
Avidan Kent
PhD (Cantab) is an Associate Professor in Law, the Law School’s Director of Research, and the Founder and Convenor of uea’s International Law Research Group. He has written/edited books, reports, journal articles and chapters on a varied list of topics, including Environmental Law, International Economic Law, International Tribunals, Public Participation and Climate-Induced
Yulia Levashova
is an Associate Professor at Nyenrode Business University in the Netherlands and a director of the dispute prevention program at the Asia Pacific fdi Network. Her specialization is international investment arbitration, commercial arbitration, Corporate Social Responsibility (csr) and due diligence. Levashova is also an independent practitioner who serves as an arbitrator and provides legal consultancy to the Dutch government and international organizations, e.g., unece and unctad.
Sebastián Mantilla Blanco
is an Assistant Professor of International Economic Law at The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (Tufts University). Previously, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Bonn in Germany, a Post-Doctoral Global Fellow at New York University (Spring 2023), and an Independent Counsel at Zuleta Abogados (Colombia). He was also a Visiting Professor at the School of Law and Political Sciences of the Universidad de la Sabana in Colombia. He holds a Doctorate in Law (Dr. Iur.) as well as an ll.m. from the University of Bonn, and a law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá (Colombia).
Ksenia Polonskaya
is a faculty member at Carleton University. Her research focuses on international law, legal theory, and international investment arbitration. She is a convener of the Interest Group on Feminism and International Law with the European Society of International Law (esil).
Francesco Salerno
is a practicing competition lawyer with a PhD from the London School of Economics. Francesco Maria has several years of experience advising clients on foreign direct investment matters before the European Commission and the Courts in Luxembourg. He has published several articles on independent regulatory authorities, competition law and regulation in network industries and he has published with Lexology the chapter on fdi in Italy.
is a Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He is also a practising barrister.
Valentina Vadi
is an Adjunct Professor in International Law at the School of Political Sciences of the University of Florence and a Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Law, and International Studies of the University of Padua. She was formerly a Professor in International Economic Law at Lancaster University (2015–2021). She is the author of several monographs and more than a hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals in the field of international economic law.
Mikael Wigell
is Research Director at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. He is also Adjunct Professor at Tampere University and Expert Member of the World Economic Forum. He earned his PhD at the London School of Economics and he has been a Visiting Fellow at the Changing Character of War Centre, Oxford University. His latest book is as editor of Geo-economics and Power Politics in the 21st Century: The Revival of Economic Statecraft (Routledge, 2018; 2020).
Niccolò Zugliani
is a postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bocconi University and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Milan. He holds a PhD from the University of Verona and an llm from the University of Vienna. He has been visiting PhD candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, at the University of Ottawa, and at the Amsterdam Center for International Law. He has published on issues of public international law, international economic law and jurisdiction of domestic courts.