Biography

Filippo Fontanelli read Law at the University of Pisa (Law Degree and Advanced Law Degree, in 2004 and 2006) and at the Sant'Anna School (Diploma di Licenza, 2008), and worked in the Rome office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton LLP, from 2007 to 2009. He is admitted to the bar in Italy (Rome).

Filippo joined the School of  Law in February 2012, after receiving in January a PhD (summa cum laude) from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa.  In 2010, he completed an LLM at the New York University School of Law, where he served as Hauser Global LLM Fellow and was awarded the Jerome Lipper Prize for his achievements in the field of International Law.  In September 2010, he embarked on a one-year clerkship as NYU university trainee at the International Court of Justice (The Hague), working for H.E. Judge Cançado Trindade and H.E. Keith.

Research Interests

Filippo's main area of interest coheres around Public International Law, International Economic Law (trade and investments) and European Union Law.  His research interests broadly include:

International Trade Law: for instance, the use of the necessity test by World Trade Organisation Panels and Appellate Body, and the relevance of international voluntary standards in the WTO.

International Investment Law: in particular, the questions pertaining to the competence and jurisdiction of arbitral tribunals, prompting the strong dissenting opinions in Abaclat and Hochtief.

Public International Law:  the role of general principles in the system of sources of International Law, and the historical appraisal of doctrines such as pluralism and institutionalism.

European Union Law: in particular, the role of the Court of Justice of the EU and the dialogue with other courts and tribunals, and the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights after 2009.

Research Collaborations

Filippo is member of the Centre for Judicial Cooperation of the Robert Schumann Centre at the European University Institute (EUI) in Fiesole, Italy (http://www.eui.eu/Projects/CentreForJudicialCooperation/Home.aspx).

He is editor of the Sant'Anna Legal Studies (http://stals.sssup.it), and a member of the Surrey European Law Unit (SELU) at the School of Law of the University of Surrey (http://www.surrey.ac.uk/law/research/SELU).

Publications

‘Necessity killed the GATT. Art. XX and the Misleading Rhetoric about “Weighing and Balancing”’ (2012) European Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 5, issue 2.

‘The invocation of the exception of non-performance, a case-study on the role and application of general principles of
international law of contractual origin’ (2012) Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 1, issue 1, 119-136.

‘ISO and  Codex standards and International Trade Law. What gets said is not what’s heard’ (2011)  International and
Comparative Law Quarterly, Vol. 60, issue 3, 895-932.

‘Santi Romano’s “L’ordinamento giuridico.” An Introduction and a Re-Contextualization of a forgotten masterwork’ (2011) Transnational Legal Theory, Vol. 2, issue 1, 67-117.

‘Between Blasphemy and Judicial Activism, Jesus and the Law in Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas’ (2011)International Journal of Private Law, Vol. 4, issue 4, 469-488.

‘General Principles of the EU and a Glimpse of Solidarity in the Aftermath of Mangold and Kücükdeveci’ (2011) European Public Law Vol. 17, issue 2, 225-240.

‘How interpretation techniques can shape the relationship between constitutional courts. A comment on Tribunal Constitucional’s judgment no. 199/2009 and Czech Constitutional Court’s judgment no. 29/2009’ (2010) King’s Law Journal, Vol. 21, issue 2, 371-392.

‘Between procedural impermeability and constitutional openness: the Italian Constitutional Court and Preliminary
References to the ECJ’ (with G Martinico) (2010) European Law Journal, Vol. 17, issue 4, 345-364.

Teaching

Law of the World Trade Organization (convenor)

International Investment Protection (convenor)

Law of the European Union

Departmental Duties

Please contact Filippo if you wish to give a seminar at the School of Law, in the framework of the Staff Seminars cycle.