International Advisory, Expert, Litigation
In addition to international arbitration, experience in international advisory and litigation includes acting as:
Appearance in Court
Some experience and appeared before English, French, Italian courts
Legal Counsel and Consultant:
i) Party representation
ii) Various transactional work, including the negotiation and drafting of international contracts
Independent Legal Expert:
upon request by International Organizations, corporations and international law firms, on various issues in
i) contract, commercial and company law, arbitration law and agreements (challenges before national courts, validity and enforceability, etc.)
ii) private international law (jurisdiction, conflict of laws, overriding mandatory rules, etc.)
iii) international economic and investment law (applicability of a BIT, investor nationality, protection of shareholders, control, ICSID Convention, jurisdiction, etc.)
iv) public international law (sovereign immunity, State responsibility)
v) EU law
Independent Expert and Advisor to International Organizations:
Legal and Policy Expert and Advisor: Feasibility Study on an International Legal Entity for the Protection of Software (International, EU, National Law)
Independent Expert and Advisor to Governments:
Expert and Advisor on the 1954 The Hague Convention and the 1954 and 1999 Protocols on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, and their implementation in States Parties
EU Law-making:
Independent Legal Expert to the European Union: in comparative conflict of laws and expert for the ESEC in the elaboration process of the E.U. Regulation 650/2012 of 4 July 2012 on International Successions (Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments)
International Law-Making:
See UNESCO Expert and Advisory Experience in Treaty-Making with regard to (192) Member States
Government Representative in Treaty-making:
Italian Delegate to the intergovernmental negotiation of the 2001 UNESCO Underwater Cultural Heritage Convention (law of the sea, maritime law, salvage law)
Earlier Experience in Treaty-making:
In earlier years: Secrétaire-rédacteur or Précis-Writer of the following International Organizations during their Diplomatic Conferences in which Member States negotiated and adopted uniform law treaties:
The Hague Conference of Private International Law (1993-97)
Institute for the Unification of Private Law, UNIDROIT (1995)