Jacopo Alberti
is currently Associate Professor of EU Law at the University of Ferrara, after academic and professional experiences in Frankfurt, Bruxelles, Oxford, Pavia and Milan. His research interests lie mainly in (the evolution of) the EU executive and judiciary. Together with Prof. G. Tesauro, he took part as National Rapporteur for the topic ‘Division of Powers between EU institutions and Member States’ in the XXVII FIDE Congress.
Angelica Bonfanti
(Ph.D.) is Associate Professor in International Law and the Head of Studies of the Master program in Sustainable Development in the Law Faculty of the University of Milan. She teaches EU Law on Business and Human Rights and Sustainable Development in Global Trade (WTO) Law. Her research activity chiefly focuses on public and private international law, business and human rights, cyber law, and international trade and investment law. She is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the ESIL Interest Group on International Business and Human Rights and the editor of the volume Business and Human Rights in Europe: International Law Challenges (Routledge, 2019).
Marta Bordignon
holds a Ph.D. in International Law from University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, a MA in International Relations and BA degree in Political Science from LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome. Dr. Bordignon is Adjunct Faculty of Contemporary Politics in Europe and Politics of the Global Economy at Temple University, Rome Campus. She is co-founder and President of the Italian association Human Rights International Corner ETS (www.humanrightsic.com), committed to Business and Human Rights and migration. Since 2018, she is Scientific Co-Director of the Summer School Business and Human Rights, annually organized in Italy by HRIC, University of Milan, Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development - National Research Council of Italy (IRISS-CNR) and Wageningen University & Research.
Claire Bright
is an Assistant Professor at Nova University in Lisbon and a Research Fellow in Business and Human Rights at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.
Claire Bright holds a Ph.D. in International Law from the European University Institute, an LL.M in Private International Law and International
Her recent work has focused on human rights due diligence requirements and she recently co-authored a study for the European Commission on due diligence requirements through the supply chain.
Elena Carpanelli
is a Researcher at the University of Parma, where she teaches public international law and EU law and human rights. She holds an LL.M. from the University of Leiden and a Ph.D. from the University of Milan-Bicocca. She has previously qualified and practiced as a lawyer in the field of aviation and commercial law. Her research focuses on international human rights law and general public international law.
Ludovica Chiussi
(Ph.D.), is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Adjunct Professor in Public International Law at the University of Bologna, School of Law and currently a Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment. A fully qualified lawyer, she has worked as a legal assistant in cases before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea, and investor-state arbitral tribunals.
Marco Fasciglione
(Ph.D.) is researcher of International Law at the Italian National Research Council (CNR-IRISS), where he is the Principal Investigator of the project Corporate human rights and environmental due diligence and the Promotion of COrporate REsponsibility (CO.RE) and Co-Director of the Summer School Business and Human Rights. Former legal officer at the European Court of Human Rights, he is chief of the Editorial Committee of the peer-reviewed Journal Diritti umani e diritto internazionale.
Francesco Luigi Gatta
graduated in Law at the University of Padua and holds a double Ph.D. in European Union Law from the University of Padua and the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck. He was a trainee at the Council of Europe (Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly) and at the European Parliament (Legal Service). He was a visiting researcher at the Université de Strasbourg and at the European University Institute (EUI). Currently he is a Research Fellow in European Union Law at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL).
is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Researcher at Wageningen University & Research – Law Group and an associate member of the Essex Business and Human Rights Project. She holds a Ph.D. in International Law from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies with a thesis on the protection of human rights in the supply chains of transnational corporations.
Since 2012, she has conducted consultancies for governments, NGOs, companies, trade unions and lawyers on business and human rights-related issues.
In 2019, she was awarded the EU-funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to carry out a two-year research project on business and human rights focusing on EU policies (2019–2021).
Diego Mauri
graduated in Law at the Catholic University in Milan (2015), then was a Ph.D. candidate in ‘Human Rights: Evolution, Limits and Protection’ at the University of Palermo (Italy); he defended his thesis in 2019. He currently works as a Post-Doc Researcher at the Department of Law of the University of Florence. His main academic interests are: new technologies (such as armed drones, autonomous weapon systems, and algorithms) and their impact on international law; human rights law; the relationship between the international legal order and domestic legal orders.
Monica Parodi
is a researcher in European Union Law at the Department of Legal Science of Florence University, where she is also adjunct professor of EU Law. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science – with a focus on research in Democracy and Human Rights – at the University of Genoa. She was subsequently a postdoctoral researcher in International Law at the Department of Legal Science of Florence University and in EU Law at the Department of Law of Turin University. Before, she was postdoctoral fellow at the University of Fribourg (CH) and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.
Edoardo Alberto Rossi
is a postdoctoral researcher in International Law at the Law Department of the University of Urbino (Italy). He was awarded a Ph.D. in Human Rights and Social Fundamental Rights at the same University and conducted research with a van Calker Scholarship at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne. An attorney-at-law, he is Secretary of the Centre of European Legal Studies of the University of Urbino. He has given lectures and presentations in International Law and EU Law in Italy and abroad (Lausanne, Malaga, Strasbourg), recently as a visiting professor at the University Jean Moulin Lyon III.
is Assistant Professor of International Law in the Department of Law of the University of Turin. He completed a Ph.D. in International Law at the University of Milan in 2012. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law in Luxembourg and Visiting Researcher at the Amsterdam Center of International Law of the University of Amsterdam. He is currently a Member of the Board of the Italian Society for International and EU Law. He is author of a book and a number of publications on the law of international responsibility and on human rights-related issues.
Enzamaria Tramontana
is Assistant Professor of International Law at the Law Department of the University of Palermo, where she teaches International Law and International Human Rights Law. In 2011, she received her Ph.D. in International and European Law from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, and in 2018 she obtained the National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in International Law. She has published several articles and book chapters on different topics of International Law and has authored the monograph ‘Organizzazioni non governative e ordinamento internazionale’ (Cedam 2012). She is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal ‘Diritti umani e diritto internazionale’.
Giovanni Zarra
is adjunct professor of (public and private) international law at the Federico II University of Naples. His main fields of expertise (academic and professional) are international arbitration (both commercial and investment), private international law and transnational litigation. He authored a monograph on ‘Parallel Proceedings in Investment Arbitration’ and several peer-reviewed articles, and co-authored a book on ‘Domestic and International Public Policy’. He is a member of the steering committee of the Italian ‘Treaties on Arbitration Law’, the book series ‘Legal Culture and International Flaws’ and of the Journal ‘Diritto del commercio internazionale’.