Fabrizio Marrella

Biography

Fabrizio Marrella, (LLD Université de Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, LLD Bologna University Law School, Diploma of The Hague Academy of International Law) is currently Full Professor of International Law at Cà Foscari University of Venice, Adjunct Professor at the University of Rome LUISS and Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt Law School (U.S.A.). In March 2019 he was Visiting Professor at the IHEI of the Université Paris II, Panthéon Assas.

Over his academic career he has researched, taught and practiced International Law, International Business Law, International Arbitration, International Investment Law and Maritime Law as well as Business and Human Rights. He has lectured in top Universities across the world (i.e. Harvard,Columbia,Vanderbilt, Paris II, Geneva, Moscow, CUPL Beijing, Hitotsubashi Tokyo) as well as for professional organisations. Prof.

Marrella has also served as vice-Director of the Harvard University-Venice program where he has been teaching for many years a course on International Business Law. In 2013 he delivered a course at The Hague Academy of International Law on “Protection internationale des droits de l'homme et activités des sociétés transnationales/International Protection of Human Rights and Activities of Transnational Corporations", published in RCADI, vol. 385, 2017, pp. 33-435. From 2008 to 2011 he has been the European Programme Director of the European Masters’ Program in Human Rights and Democratisation of the European Inter-university Center for Human rights and Democratisation/Global Campus of Human Rights (EIUC) and from 2011 to 2015 he was Dean of the Human Rights Village. Previously, he was Adjunct Professor of International Business Law at the IHEAL (Institute for Advanced Studies on Latin America) of the Université de Paris III-La Sorbonne Nouvelle and Lecturer at the Institut de Droit Comparé de Paris (Université de Paris IIPanthéon Assas).

Professor Marrella is an International Lawyer admitted to the Supreme Court (including the European Court of Justice) and International Jurisdictions. He currently operates as free-lance in his field of professional specialization and in particular in the arbitration field. He has about 20 years of experience working together with Companies, Governments, International Organisations (UN or EU), NGOs and Academia. He is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Italian.

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