WORK & EDUCATION

2023 - ongoing, Associate Professor of Sociology of Law and International Law at iCourts

2019 - 2023, Assistant Professor of Sociology of Law and International Law at iCourts

Jan-Jun 2022, Fernand Braudel Fellow, European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy

2016 - 2019, Postoctoral Research Fellow at iCourts

Jan-May 2018, Lecturer in International Law, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy

2012 - 2016, PhD Fellow at iCourts, The Faculty of Law of the University of Copenhagen

Dissertation: Institutionalizing Regional International Courts: Creation, Authority, and Power of the Central American and Caribbean Court of Justice

2012, LL.M., Faculty of Law, U.C. Berkeley

2009, MA, Faculty of Law, University of Roma Tre

2007, BA, Faculty of Law, University of Roma Tre

VISITING 

2013, Visiting Scholar at the Buffet Centre, Faculty of Political Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago (Evanston) - United States

2013, Visiting Scholar at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati – Spain

2010 - 2011, Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School, New Haven - United States

2009, Visiting Student at Fordham Law School, New York - United States

2009, External Affiliated Researcher at Oxford Law School, Oxford - United Kingdom

International Dispute Resolution and International Courts, Public International Law, International Human Rights, and Sociology of Law.

I am a socio-legal, interdisciplinary scholar. I am fascinated by the role of law, lawyers, and international institutions in shaping global society.

My research shows how the authority of international courts is not dependent on formally delegated powers, but impinges on their capacity to embed their practices in the socio-political dynamics at play in their institutional and socio-political contexts. I subsequently applied these insights to explain how international law and institutions have broader societal impact and the socio-political dynamics accounting for that.

Currently, I am investigating the role of international organizations in countering the ongoing democratic decay and rule of law backsliding in many countries of the world. 

I am also interested in studying how the legal profession is shaped and evolves in the light of several societal dynamics, such as the judicialization of international politics, the rise of a digital society, and the development of the welfare state. 

English, Italian, Spanish, and Danish