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Valentina Vadi è professoressa a contratto di diritto internazionale all’Università degli Studi di Firenze, Scuola di Scienze Politiche. E’ Co-direttrice della Collana Routledge Cultural Heritage in International Law, e membro del comitato editoriale dell’Italian Yearbook of International Law, dell’International Journal of Cultural Property e della rivista International Trade Law and Regulation. E’ membro della International Law Association e della European Society of International Law. Ha ottenuto l'Abilitazione a Professore di Prima Fascia nella tornata del 2018 con giudizio unanime della Commissione.
E’ stata Professoressa di diritto internazionale dell’economia alla Lancaster University dal 2015 al 2021. Ha vinto una Michigan Grotius Senior Research Fellowship presso la Michigan Law School (2019), una Emile Noël Postdoctoral Fellowhip al Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Integration presso la New York University (2013–2014) e una Marie Curie Fellowship presso la Facoltà di Giurisprudenza della Maastricht University.
È autrice di numerose pubblicazioni nel settore del diritto internazionale pubblico, dei diritti dell’uomo e del diritto internazionale dell’economia, tra i quali una monografia sul tema Guerra e Pace—Alberico Gentili e il diritto internazionale (War and Peace—Alberico Gentili and the Early Modern Law of Nations (Brill 2020) e una monografia sul tema della protezione del patrimonio cultural nel diritto internazionale degli investimenti (Cultural Heritage in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Cambridge: CUP 2014). Altre monografie includono Public Health in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Routledge 2014); Analogies in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Cambridge: CUP 2016), and Proportionality, Reasonableness and Standards of Review in international Investment Law and Arbitration (Edward Elgar 2018). Ha curato inoltre (con A. di Blase) The Inherent Rights of Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Rome: University of Rome III Press 2020).
carriera accademica
2022 ad oggi Università degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali
Professore a contratto
2015–2021 Lancaster University School of Law
Professore ordinario di diritto internazionale dell’economia
2013–2015 Lancaster University School of Law
Professore associato di diritto internazionale del commercio
2013–2014 New York University School of Law
Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice
Emile Nöel Fellow. Titolo del progetto di ricerca: ‘Merchants of Law:Comparative Law and
the Architecture of Global Economic Governance’
2011–2013 Maastricht University Faculty of Law
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. Titolo del progetto di ricerca: ‘Investing in Culture towards
Economic and Social Development: International and European Law Perspectives’
2009–2011 Maastricht University Faculty of Law
Lecturer in diritto internazionale pubblico
2005–2009 Istituto Universitario Europeo, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza
Ricercatrice, e assistente di ricerca dei Professori P.M. Dupuy, F. Francioni e E.U. Petersmann
2003 University of Oxford (UK) Faculty of Law
Assistente di Ricerca della Professoressa Bronwen Morgan
Fellowships
Incarichi di insegnamento o di ricerca presso qualificati atenei ed istituti di ricerca nazionali, esteri o sovranazionali
Altri Titoli
2021–2030 Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (MIUR)
Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale a Professore di Prima Fascia
nel Settore 12/E1 – Diritto internazionale nella tornata 2018-2020
(validità Abilitazione dal 24/05/2021 al 24/05/2030);
2010 ad oggi United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
International Investment Arbitration Expert Network, Expert
Corsi di studio ed esperienze di ricerca
2005–2009 Istituto Universitario Europeo, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Firenze
Frequenta il corso di dottorato di ricerca in Diritto Internazionale, discutendo la tesi nel 2009. Titolo della tesi: ‘Public Health in International Investment Law and Arbitration’ sotto la direzione del Professor Francesco Francioni
Membri della Commissione esaminatrice: Professor Vaughan Lowe (University of Oxford); Professor Andrea Giardina (Università La Sapienza di Roma) e Professor Ernst Ulrich Petersmann (Istituto Universitario Europeo)
2005–2006 Istituto Universitario Europeo, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza
Master of Research in Law
2003–2005 Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, Università di Siena
Laureata in scienze amministrative con 110/110 e lode.
Titolo della tesi: ‘La delocalizzazione dell’arbitrato commerciale internazionale’ sotto la direzione del Professor Avv. Giuliano Scarselli.
2003–2004 University of Oxford, Faculty of Law
Magister Juris (LLM) in European and Comparative Law
Valutazione: Merit 2:1; Relatore: Dr. Michael Spence
Vincitrice della borsa di studio MPS
2003 Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, Università di Siena
Laureata in giurisprudenza con 110/110 e lode.
Titolo della tesi in diritto internazionale pubblico: ‘L’Accordo TRIPS: Il rapporto tra la proprietà intellettuale e i diritti umani’ sotto la direzione del Professor Francesco Francioni
1998–1999 Faculté de droit, Université de Freiburg, (CH)
Socrates/Erasmus Fellow
1996 Collegio alla Querce, Firenze,
Diploma di Maturità classica (56/60).
Principe degli studi
Progetti di Ricerca Finanziati
Responsabilità scientifica per progetti di ricerca internazionali e nazionali, ammessi al finanziamento sulla base di bandi competitive che prevedano la revisione tra pari:
2019 Ha svolto attività di ricerca come Michigan Grotius Research Scholar presso la Michigan University Law School, ad Ann Arbor, Michigan, Stati Uniti. Titolo: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ITS HISTORIES: Alberico Gentili. Ricercatrice principale con responsabilità scientifica del progetto.
2015–2018 European Research Council, Starting Grant, presso la Lancaster University. Titolo: HERITAGE —Cultural Heritage and Economic Development in International and European Law; progetto N. 639564. Ricercatrice principale con responsabilità scientifica del progetto.
2013–2014 New York University, Emile Noël Postdoctoral Fellowship; Titolo: Merchants of Law: Comparative Law and the Architecture of Global Economic Governance; Ricercatrice principale con responsabilità scientifica del progetto.
2011–2013 EU Commission, Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellowship, Titolo : Investing in Culture towards Economic and Social Development : International and European Perspectives. Ricercatrice principale con responsabilità scientifica del progetto
2008–2009 European University Institute, Florence, borsa dottorale;
2005–2008 Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, borsa dottorale;
Collaborazioni a progetti di ricerca internazionali
2014–2015 Ha partecipato come componente al progetto di ricerca: ‘International Law and the New Governance after the Economic Crisis’ approvato e finanziato dal minister della scienza e innovazione spagnolo.
2012 Ha partecipato come componente al progetto di ricerca: ‘International Law between Constitutionalization and Fragmentation: The Role of Law in the Post-national Constellation’ approvato e finanziato dalla EU Commission,European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action IS003.
2011 Ha partecipato come componente al progetto di ricerca: ‘China and Non-Trade Concerns’ presso la China EU school of Law
Incarichi Professionali
Direzione o partecipazione a comitati editoriali di riviste, collane editoriali
Editoriale International Journal of Cultural Property (maggio 2021 – aprile 2023)
International Trade Law and Regulation (marzo 2018 ad ora)
Principali Pubblicazioni
Monografie
curatele
curatele di volumi monografici di rivista
10. V. Vadi e H. Schneider (a cura di), The New Frontiers of Cultural Law: Intangible Heritage Disputes, Transnational Dispute Management (2014);
11. V. Vadi e H. Schneider (a cura di), Art and Heritage Disputes in International and Comparative Law, 10(5) Transnational Dispute Management (2013);
Articoli
12. V. Vadi, ‘Gravity and Grace: Foreign Investments and Cultural Heritage in International Investment Law’ 55 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (accettato per pubblicazione 2022);
13. V. Vadi, ‘Crisis, Continuidad y Cambio en el Derecho Internacional de Inversiones y el Arbitraje’ Revista Latinoamericana de Derecho Internacional (Latin American Journal of International Law)(accettato per pubblicazione 2022)[su invito];
14. V. Vadi, ‘Crisis, Continuity, and Change in International Investment Law and Arbitration’ 42 Michigan Journal of International Law (2021) 321–367
15. V. Vadi, ‘Inter-Civilizational Approaches to Investor-State Dispute Settlement’ 42 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law (2021) 737–797;
16. V. Vadi, ‘Perfect War: Gentili on the Use of Force, and the Early Modern Law of Nations’, Grotiana 41 (invited contribution) (2020) 263–281;
17. V. Vadi, ‘Perspective and Scale in the Architecture of International Legal History’, 30(1) European Journal of International Law (2019) 53–71;
18. V. Vadi, ‘The Power of Scale: International Law and Microhistories’, 46(4) Denver Journal of International Law and Policy (2018) 315–348;
19. V. Vadi, ‘Power, Law, and Images: International Law and Material Culture’, 45(2) Syracuse Journal of International Law (2018) 215–248;
20. V. Vadi, ‘Heritage, Power and Destiny: The Protection of Indigenous Heritage in International Investment Law and Arbitration’, 50 George Washington International Law Review (2018) 101–155;
21. V. Vadi, ‘International Law and its Histories: Methodological Risks and Opportunities’, 58(2) Harvard International Law Journal (2017) 311–352;
22. V. Vadi, ‘New Forms of Dialectics between Intellectual Property and Public Health: Pharmaceutical Patent-Related Investment Disputes’, 49(2) The International Lawyer (2016) 149–198, ISSN 0020–7810;
23. V. Vadi, ‘Jus Cogens in International Investment Law and Arbitration’, 46 Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2015 (2016) 357–388;
24. V. Vadi, ‘Energy Security v. Public Health? Nuclear Energy in International Investment Law and Arbitration’, 47(3) Georgetown Journal of International Law (2016) 1069–1137;
25. V. Vadi, ‘Beyond Known Worlds: Climate Change Governance by Arbitral Tribunals?’, 48 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 5 (2015) 1285–1351;
26. V. Vadi, ‘Crossed Destinies: International Economic Courts and the Protection of Cultural Heritage’, 18(1) Journal of International Economic Law (2015) 51–77;
27. V. Vadi, ‘Un Castillo de Destinos Cruzados? Gobernanza Cultural Global por los Tribunales Económicos Internacionales’, 19 Anuario de la Facultad de Derechode la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2015) 181–211;
28. V. Vadi, ‘The Migration of Constitutional Ideas: The Strange Case of Proportionality in International Investment Law and Arbitration’, Yearbook of International Investment Law and Policy 2013–2014 (Oxford: OUP, 2015) 337–360;
29. V. Vadi, ‘Proportionality, Reasonableness and Standards of Review in Investment Treaty Arbitration’, Yearbook of International Investment Law and Policy 2013–2014 (Oxford: OUP, 2015) 201–228;
30. V. Vadi, ‘Global Cultural Governance by Arbitral Tribunals: The Making of a Lex Administrativa Culturalis’, 33(2) Boston University International Law Journal (2015) 101–138;
31. V. Vadi, ‘The Migration of Constitutional Ideas to Regional and International Economic Law: The Case of Proportionality’, 35(3) Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business (2015) 557–589;
32. V. Vadi, ‘At the Dawn of International Law: Alberico Gentili’, 40 North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation (2014) 131–164;
33. V. Vadi and H. Schneider, ‘The New Frontiers of Cultural Law: Intangible Heritage Disputes’ Transnational Dispute Management 2 (2014) 1–12.
34. V. Vadi and H. Schneider, ‘Art and Heritage Disputes’ Transnational Dispute Management 10 (2013) 1-13;
35. V. Vadi (with L. Gruszczynski), ‘Standards of Review in International Investment Law and Arbitration: Multilevel Governance and the Commonweal’, 16(3) Journal of International Economic Law (2013) 1–21;
36. V. Vadi, ‘Culture Clash? World Heritage and Investors’ Rights in International Investment Law and Arbitration’, 28(1) ICSID Review Foreign Investment Law Journal (2013) 1–21;
37. V. Vadi, ‘War, Memory and Culture: The Uncertain Legal Status of Historic Sunken Warships under International Law’, 37(2 Tulane Maritime Law Journal (2012–2013) 333–378;
38. V. Vadi, ‘The Cultural Wealth of Nations in International Law’, 21 Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law (2012) 87–133;
39. V. Vadi, ‘Global Health Governance at a Crossroads: Trademark Protection v. Tobacco Control in International Investment Law’, 48 Stanford Journal of International Law (2012) 93–130;
40. V. Vadi, ‘Converging Divergences: The Rise of Chinese Outward Foreign Investment and Its Implications for International (Investment) Law’, Yearbook of International Investment Law (2011-2012) 705–724;
41. V. Vadi, ‘Cultural Diversity Disputes and the Judicial Function in International Investment Law’, 39 Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce 1 (2011) 89–136;
42. V. Vadi, ‘Overlapping Regulatory Spaces: The Architecture of NAFTA Chapter 11 and the Regulation of Toxic Chemicals’, 4 European Journal of Risk Regulation (2011) 586–590;
43. V. Vadi, ‘When Cultures Collide: Foreign Direct Investment, Natural Resources and Indigenous Heritage in International Investment Law’, 42 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 3 (2011) 797–889;
44. V. Vadi, ‘Environmental Impact Assessment in Investment Disputes – Method, Governance and Jurisprudence’, XXX Polish Yearbook of International Law (2010) 169–205;
45. V. Vadi, ‘Critical Comparisons: The Role of Comparative Law in Investment Treaty Arbitration’, 39 Denver Journal of International Law & Policy 1 (2010) 67–100;
46. V. Vadi, ‘International Law and the Uncertain Fate of Military Sunken Vessels’,(2010)XIX Italian Yearbook of International Law 2009, 253–277;
47. V. Vadi, ‘Trademark Protection, Public Health and International Investment Law: Strains and Paradoxes’, 20 European Journal of International Law 3 (2009) 773–803;
48. V. Vadi, ‘Fragmentation or Cohesion? Investment versus Cultural Protection Rules’,10 Journal of World Investment and Trade 4 (2009) 573–600;
49. V. Vadi, ‘Investing in Culture: Underwater Cultural Heritage and International Investment Law’, 42 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (2009) 853–904;
50. V. Vadi, ‘Mapping Uncharted Waters: Intellectual Property Disputes with Public Health Elements in Investor-State Arbitration’, Transnational Dispute Management 2 (2009) 1–22;
51. V. Vadi, ‘Sapere Aude! Access to Knowledge as a Human Right and a Key Instrument to Development’, 12 International Journal of Communications Law and Policy (2008) 346–368;
52. V. Vadi, ‘Cultural Heritage and International Investment Law: A Stormy Relationship’,15 International Journal of Cultural Property 1 (2008) 1–23;
53. V. Vadi, ‘The Multilateral Trade Regime: Which Way Forward? A Look at the Warwick Report’,6 Global Trade and Customs Journal 3 (2008) 203–215;
54. V. Vadi, ‘The Challenge of Reconciling Underwater Cultural Heritage and International Investment Law: A Case Study’, XVII Italian Yearbook of International Law (2007) 143–158;
55. V. Vadi, ‘Access to Essential Medicines and International Investment Law: The Road Ahead’, 8 Journal of World Investment and Trade 4(2007) 505–532;
56. V. Vadi, ‘Intangible Heritage, Traditional Medicine and Knowledge Governance’,2 Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice 10 (2007) 682–692, Oxford University Press, Online ISSN 1747-1540 - Print ISSN 1747-1532;
57. V. Vadi, ‘The Relationship between Intellectual Property Rights and the Right to Health in the Context of the TRIPS Agreement’, XIV Italian Yearbook of International Law (2004) 195–223.
Contributi in volume
58. V. Vadi, ‘The World Heritage Convention and International Investment Law’ in F. Francioni and F. Lenzerini (eds) The 1972 World Heritage Convention: A Commentary, II edition (Oxford: OUP forthcoming 2022);
59. V. Vadi, ‘The Investment Award in a Historical Perspective’ in K. Fach Gomez and C. Titi (eds) The Award in International Investment Arbitration (Oxford: OUP forthcoming 2023);
60. V. Vadi, ‘Spatio-Temporal Dimensions of Indigenous Sovereignty in International Law’, in A. Di Blase e V. Vadi (a cura di) The Inherent Rights of Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Rome: Roma III Press 2020) 87–114;
61. V. Vadi, ‘The Protection of Indigenous Cultural Heritage in International Investment Law and Arbitration’ in A. Di Blase e V. Vadi (a cura di), The Inherent Rights of Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Roma: Roma III Press 2020) 197–244;
62. V. Vadi [con A. Di Blase], ‘Introducing the Inherent Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ in A. Di Blase e V. Vadi (a cura di) The Inherent Rights of Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Roma: Roma III Press 2020) [V. Vadi è l’autrice delle sezioni 1 and 4; A. Di Blase è l’autrice delle sezioni 2 and 3] 15–39;
63. V. Vadi, ‘The Environmental Health Spillovers of Foreign Direct Investment in International Investment Arbitration’, in S. Negri (a cura di) Environmental Health in International and EU Law: Current Challenges and Legal Responses (Torino: Giappichelli–Routledge Studies in Law 2019) 25–40;
64. V. Vadi, ‘Global v. Local: The Protection of Indigenous Heritage in International Economic Law’, in S. Sargent and Jo Samantha (a cura di) A New Millennium for Indigenous Rights, II ed. (Buckingham: Buckingham University Press 2019) 13–40;
65. V. Vadi, ‘Cultural Heritage in International Investment Law’ in A.F. Vrdoljak and F. Francioni (a cura di), Oxford Handbook on Cultural Heritage Law (Oxford: OUP 2020);
66. V. Vadi, ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage and Trade’, in C. Waelde, C. Cummings, M. Parvis, and H. Enright (a cura di), Research Handbook on Contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2018) 398–415, ISBN 9781786434005 (cased); ISBN 9781786434012 (eBook);
67. V. Vadi, ‘Natural Resources and Indigenous Cultural Heritage in International Investment Law and Arbitration’, in K. Miles (a cura di), Research Handbook on Environment and International Investment Law (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2019) 464–479, ISBN: 978 1 78471 462 8;
68. V. Vadi, ‘Human Rights and Investments at the World Trade Organization’, in Y. Radi (a cura di), Research Handbook on Human Rights and Investments (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2019) 158–185, ISBN978 1 78254 911;
69. V. Vadi, ‘Global Administrative Law’, in C. May e A. Winchester (a cura di), Research Handbook on the Rule of Law (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2018) 322–332, ISBN 9781786432438;
70. V. Vadi, ‘Exploring the Borderlands: The Role of Private Actors in International Cultural Law’, in J. Summers e A. Gough (a cura di), Non-State Actors and International Obligations—Creation, Evolution and Enforcement (Leiden: Brill 2018) 109–125, ISBN: 978-90-04-34025-1;
71. V. Vadi, ‘Local Communities, Cultural Heritage and International Economic Law’, in L. Biukovic, e P. Potter (a cura di), Local Engagement with International Economic Law and Human Rights (Cheltenham: EE 2017) 150–168, ISBN 9781785367182;
72. V. Vadi, ‘Global v. Local: The Protection of Indigenous Heritage in International Economic Law’, in S. Sargent e Jo Samantha (a cura di) A New Millennium for Indigenous Rights (Buckingham: Buckingham University Press 2017) 7–36,ISBN 9781908684165;
73. V. Vadi, ‘Food Wars: Food, Intangible Cultural Heritage and International Trade’, in L. Westra, J. Gray e A. D’Aloia (a cura di) The Common Good and Ecological Integrity — Human Rights and the Support of Life (London: Routledge 2016) 49–60;
74. V. Vadi, ‘A History of Success? Proportionality in International Economic Law’, in A. Segura e L.M. Hinojosa Martinez (a cura di), The Reform of International Economic Governance (Ashgate: 2016) 171–192;
75. V. Vadi, ‘Investment Disputes, Pharmaceutical Patents and Health-Related Goods’, in A. Alemanno e E. Bonadio (a cura di)TheNew Intellectual Property of Health — Beyond Plain Packaging (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2016) 233–254;
76. V. Vadi, ‘Law, Culture and the Politics of Chinese Outward Foreign Investment’ in P. Farah and E. Cima (a cura di) China’s Influence on Non-Trade Concerns in International Economic Law (London/New York: Routledge 2016) 98–112, ISBN 9781315571713;
77. V. Vadi, ‘Balancing Human Rights, Climate Change and Foreign Investment Protection’, in O. Quirico e M. Boumghar (a cura di) Climate Change and Human Rights: an International Law Perspective (London/New York: Routledge, 2016) 189–200;
78. V. Vadi, ‘Introducing Culture and International Economic Law’, in V. Vadi e B. De Witte (a cura di) Culture and International Economic Law (London/New York: Routledge, 2015) 1–16;
79. V. Vadi, ‘Cultural Heritage in International Economic Law’, in V. Vadi e B. De Witte (a cura di) Culture and International Economic Law (London/New York: Routledge 2015) 53–71;
80. V. Vadi, ‘Nature, Culture and Development in International Trade Law’, in M. Fitzmaurice, S. Maljean-Dubois e S. Negri (a cura di) Challenges of Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development from Rio to Rio+20 and Beyond (Leiden/Boston: Brill/Martinus Nijhoff 2014) 353–377;
81. V. Vadi, ‘Public Goods, Foreign Investments and the International Protection of Cultural Heritage’, in A. Vrdoljak e F. Lenzerini (a cura di) International Law for Common Goods — Normative Perspectives on Human Rights, Culture and Nature (Oxford: Hart, 2014) 231–248;
82. V. Vadi (con L. Gruszczynski), ‘Standard of Review and Scientific Evidence in WTO Law and International Investment Arbitration: Converging Parallels?’, in L. Gruszczynski e W. Werner (a cura di) Deference in International Courts and Tribunals: Standard of Review and Margin of Appreciation (Oxford: OUP, 2014) 152–172;
83. V. Vadi, ‘Foreign Investment in the Energy Sector and Public Health’, in E. De Brabandere e T. Gazzini (a cura di) Foreign Investment in the Energy Sector: Balancing Private and Public Interests (Leiden: Brill, 2014) 238–258;
84. V. Vadi e H. Schneider, ‘Art, Cultural Heritage and the Market: Legal and Ethical Issues’, in V. Vadi e H. Schneider (a cura di) Art, Cultural Heritage and the Market: Ethical and Legal Issues (Heidelberg: Springer, 2014) 1–26;
85. V. Vadi, ‘Underwater Cultural Heritage and the Market: The Uncertain Fate of Historic Sunken Warships under International Law’, in V. Vadi e H. Schneider (a cura di) Art, Cultural Heritage and the Market: Ethical and Legal Issues (Heidelberg: Springer, 2014) 221–256;
86. V. Vadi, ‘Tobacco Wars, Analogies and Standards of Review in International Investment Arbitration’, in L. Westra, P. Taylor and A. Michelot (a cura di) Confronting Ecological and Economic Collapse: Ecological Integrity for Law, Policy and Human Rights (London: Earthscan, 2013) 226–237, ISBN 9780415825252;
87. V. Vadi, ‘Culture, Development and International Law: The Linkage between Investment Rules and the Protection of Cultural Heritage’, in S. Borelli and F. Lenzerini (a cura di) Cultural Heritage, Cultural Rights, Cultural Diversity—International Law Perspectives (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2012) 413–434;
88. V. Vadi, ‘The Beauty of Unity? Intellectual Property Rights v. Public Health in International Investment Arbitration’ in C. Tams e R. Hoffmann (a cura di) Investment Law and Its Others (Nomos: 2012) 167–190;
89. V. Vadi, ‘Trademarks v. Public Health in International Investment Law and Arbitration’ in R. Sapienza (a cura di) La Tutela dei diritti umani e il diritto internazionale XVI Convegno SIDI Catania 23-24 giugno 2011 (Conference Proceedings of the XVI Annual Meeting of Italian Society of International Law) (Napoli: Editoriale Scientifica 2012) 453–479;
90. V. Vadi, ‘The Protection of Cultural Landscapes and Indigenous Heritage in International Investment Law’, in L. Westra, C. Soskolne e D. Spady (a cura di) Human Health & Ecological Integrity –Ethics, Law and Human Rights (London: Earthscan, 2012) 250–261;
91. V. Vadi, ‘Culture Clash: Valuing Heritage in Investment Disputes’,in A. Perry Kessaris (a cura di) Socio-Legal Approaches to International Economic Law: Text, Context, Subtext (Abingdon: Routledge, 2012) 181–194;
92. V. Vadi, ‘Reconciling Environmental Health and Investors’ Rights in International Investment Law’ in J. R. Engel, L. Westra e K. Bosselmann (a cura di), Democracy, Ecological Integrity and International Law, (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) 226–246;
93. V. Vadi, ‘Access to Medicines versus Protection of “Investments” in Intellectual Property: Reconciliation through Interpretation?’in A. Perry-Kessaris (a cura di) Law in the Pursuit of Development: Principles into Practice? (London: Routledge, 2009) 52–67;
94. V. Vadi,‘Reconciling Public Health and Investor Rights: The Case of Tobacco’,in P.-M. Dupuy, F. Francioni e E.-U. Petersmann (a cura di) Human Rights in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Oxford: OUP, 2009) 452–486;
Working Papers
95. V. Vadi, ‘Spatio-Temporal Dimensions of Indigenous Sovereignty in International Law’ 14(6) European Society of International Law Conference Paper 24/2019 1-25;
96. V. Vadi, ‘Towards a Lex Administrativa Culturalis? The Adjudication of Cultural Disputes before Investment Treaty Tribunals’, Jean Monnet Working Paper 17/14, New York University (2014);
97. V. Vadi, ‘Culture Clash: Investors’ Rights v. Cultural Heritage in International Investment Law and Arbitration’, Society of International Economic Law Working Paper, Giugno 2012, 1–25 available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2087823;
98. V. Vadi,‘Socio-Legal Perspectives on the Adjudication of Cultural Diversity Disputes in International Economic Law’, Onati Institute for the Sociology of Law Working Papers, vol. 1 No. 4 (2011) 1–24 available at http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/issue/archive;
99. V. Vadi, ‘The Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage in International Law: Challenges and Prospects’, in A. Vrdoljak e F. Francioni (a cura di) Illicit Traffic of Cultural Objects in the Mediterranean Region (Florence: Academy of European Law, 2009) 89–104.
Recensioni di libri
100. V. Vadi, recensione di Nicolás Perrone, Investment Treaties & the Legal Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021) 25(1) Journal of International Economic Law (accettato per pubblicazione 2022);
101. V. Vadi, recensione di A.D. Mitchell e T. Voon (a cura di) The Global Tobacco Epidemic and the Law (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2014) 16(2) Melbourne Journal of International Law 16 (2015) 1–10;
102. V. Vadi, ‘Alberico Gentili on Roman Imperialism: Dialectic Antinomies’, recensione di B. Kingsbury e B. Strauman. (a cura di) The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations (Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2010) 16 Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d’histoire du droit international (2014) 157–177;
103. V. Vadi, recensione di K. Miles, The Origins of International Investment Law – Empire, Environment and the Safeguarding of Capital (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) 84 British Yearbook of International Law (2013) 370-372;
104. V. Vadi, recensione di S.W. Schill (a cura di) International Investment Law and Comparative Public Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010) 15(3) Journal of International Economic Law (2012) 917–20;
105. V. Vadi, recensione di J. de Werra (a cura di) La résolution des litiges de proprieté intellectuelle (Brussels: Bruylant 2010) Transnational Dispute Management (2011) 1–6;
106. V. Vadi, recensione di B. Horrigan, Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2010) Legal Studies (2011) 667–670;
107. V. Vadi, recensione di S. Montt, State Liability in Investment Treaty Arbitration- Global Constitutional and Administrative Law in the BIT Generation (Oxford/Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing 2009) 14 Journal of International Economic Law 2 (2011) 715–718;
108. V. Vadi, recensione di E. Stamatopoulou, Cultural Rights in International Law (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff 2007) 21 European Journal of International Law 4 (2010) 1111–1115;
109. V. Vadi, ‘Winning the Global Development War’, recensione di J.W. Head, Losing the Global Development War. A Contemporary Critique of the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff 2008) 2 European Journal of Legal Studies 2 (2009) 102–115.
Ulteriori Publicazioni
110. V. Vadi, ‘Cultural Heritage and Foreign Investment’ in Claire Smith (ed) Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology (Springer: 2019) 1–6;
111. V. Vadi, ‘Culture’, in K. Nadakavukaren Schefer and T. Cottier (eds.), Encyclopaedia of International Economic Law (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar 2017) 246–7, ISBN 978-1-78471-353-9;
112. V. Vadi, ‘North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Disputes’, 22 Yearbook of International Environmental Law (2011), 590–595, Oxford University Press, Online ISSN 2045-0052 - Print ISSN 0965-1721;
113. V. Vadi, ‘North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Disputes’, 21 Yearbook of International Environmental Law (2010) 537–541, Oxford University Press, Online ISSN 2045-0052 - Print ISSN 0965-1721;
114. V. Vadi, ‘NAFTA: A Year in Review’, 20 Yearbook of International Environmental Law (2009), 736–745, Oxford University Press, Online ISSN 2045-0052 - Print ISSN 0965-1721.
Organizzazione di conferenze
3 marzo 2016 Istituto Universitario Europeo
Organizzatrice (con il Professor Francesco Francioni) della conferenza
From Bamiyan to Palmyra: International Law and the Deliberate Destruction of
Cultural Heritage
3–6 settembre 2013 University of Edinburgh, Regno Unito
Organizzatrice (con la Professoressa Celine Tan della Warwick University) della SLS conference stream
International Economic Law: Challenges and Prospects
20–21 giugno 2013 Maastricht University, Paesi Bassi
Organizzatrice (con il Professor Bruno de Witte) della conferenza Culture and International Economic Law
25–6 marzo 2013 Maastricht University, Paesi Bassi
Organizzatrice (con la professoressa Hildegard Schneider) della conferenza
Art and Heritage Disputes
24 aprile 2010 New York University, Villa La Pietra, Firenze
Organizzatrice (con la Dr. Ellyn Toscano) della conferenza Culture, Ethics & Law
Partecipazioni a congressi
È stata invitata a presentare ed ha presentato relazioni presso università e istituzioni in Asia, Europa, Nord America e America Centrale. In particolare, ha presentato relazioni presso università in Belgio (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Hasselt); Canada (Université du Québec, Montreal); Cina (China–EU School of Law, Pechino, Cina); Francia (La Rochelle); Germania (Goethe University, Frankfurt); Giappone (Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo); Grecia (Atene); Italia (Bocconi; Bologna; Catania; Istituto Universitario Europeo; Firenze; Napoli-Federico II; Parma; Pisa (Sant’Anna); Roma III; Siena; Torino; Trieste; Verona; Vicenza); Paesi Bassi (Groningen; Leiden; Maastricht); Portogallo (Coimbra); Regno Unito (Birkbeck College, University of London; Buckingham; Cambridge; City University of London; Edinburgh; Glasgow; Keele; Kent; King’s College, University of London; Lancaster; Liverpool; London School of Economics, Newcastle; Oxford; School of Advanced Study, University of London; Southampton; Strathclyde; Sussex; University College London; University of the West of England; Warwick; York); Repubblica Ceca (Charles University, Prague); Singapore (National University Singapore); Spagna (Granada; Siviglia; Universidad Autonoma Madrid); Stati Uniti (Georgetown; Michigan; Minnesota; New York University); Svizzera (Berna; Ginevra).
Ha presentato relazioni a convegni organizzati dalle seguenti società: American Society of International Law; Asian Society of International Law (Japan Chapter); British Institute of International and Comparative Law; European Research Council; European Society of International Law; Institute for Globalization and International Regulation (Maastricht University); International Law Association (British Branch); Società italiana di diritto internazionale; Latin-American Council of Scholars on International and Comparative Law; Law & Society Association; Society of International Economic Law; Society of Legal Scholars; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Expertise
Ha pubblicato monografie, saggi, e articoli su temi di diritto internazionale pubblico, diritto internazionale dell’economia, diritto internazionale dell’ambiente, diritto internazionale dei beni culturali, diritto internazionale del mare e diritto internazionale dei diritti umani.
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Professor Valentina Vadi is an adjunct professor at the School of Political Sciences. She is also a lawyer and a Member of the Florence Bar. She was formerly Professor of International Economic Law at Lancaster University, United Kingdom (2015-2021), a Reader in International Business Law at the same university (2013-2015), a Michigan Grotius Senior Research Scholar at Michigan University Law School (2019), an Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre for International and Regional Economic Law at New York University (2013-2014), and a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Maastricht University (2011-2013). She also lectured at Hasselt University (Belgium) (2009-2011), the University of Rome III (Italy)(2009-2010), the China EU School of Law (P.R. China)(2009-2011) and Maastricht University (The Netherlands)(2009-2011). She also was a Visiting Professor of Law at the European University Institute (2016).
She holds degrees in international law and political science from the University of Siena, a Master of Research and a PhD from the European University Institute, and an MJur from the University of Oxford. She completed further non-degree studies at the University of Fribourg (CH), Queen Mary University of London and the London School of Economics.
In 2015 she was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant to fund research on the protection of cultural heritage in international economic law including world trade law, international investment law, and European Union Law. The main outcome of this research will be a monograph, under contract with Brill. In 2018-2019 she has been awarded a Michigan Grotius Research Fellowship to conduct research on the early-modern developments of international law. The main outcome of this research was War and Peace – Alberico Gentili and the Early Modern Law of Nations (Leiden: Brill 2020).
She published more than eighty articles in various areas of public international law in top journals, including the Harvard International Law Journal, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, the Stanford Journal of International Law, the Columbia Human Rights Review, the Michigan Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Economic Law and others. She is the co-editor (with Antonietta di Blase) of The Inherent Right of Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Rome III Press 2020), (with Hildegard Schneider) of Art, Cultural Heritage and the Market: Legal and Ethical Issues (Springer: Heidelberg 2014), and (with Bruno De Witte) of Culture and International Economic Law (Routledge: 2015). She is the author of Public Health in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Routledge: 2012), Cultural Heritage in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press: 2014), Analogies in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press: 2016), Proportionality, Reasonableness and Standards of Review in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Edward Elgar: 2018), and War and Peace: Alberico Gentili and the Early Modern Law of Nations (Brill 2020).
She has presented her research at international conferences worldwide in Asia, Europe, and North and Latin America. In particular, she has been invited to present at the following universities: Athens; Bedfordshire; Bern; Birkbeck College, University of London; Bologna; Buckingham; Cambridge; Catania; Charles University, Prague; City University, University of London; Coimbra, Edinburgh; European University Institute, Florence; Florence; Geneva; Georgetown; Glasgow; Groningen; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Keele; King’s College, University of London; La Rochelle; Leiden; Liverpool; London School of Economics; Michigan; Minnesota; National University Singapore; Newcastle; New York University; Queen Mary University of London; Rome III; School of Advanced Study, University of London; Sevilla; Siena; Southampton; Strathclyde; Sussex; Turin; Universidad Autonoma Madrid; University College London; University of the West of England; Verona; Warwick.
Academic Positions
2022 University of Florence, School of Political Sciences (IT)
Adjunct Professor of Law
2015–2021 Lancaster University School of Law (UK)
Professor of International Economic Law (with tenure)
2013–2015 Lancaster University School of Law (UK)
Reader (Associate Professor) in International Business Law
2013–2014 New York University School of Law (USA)
Emile Nöel Fellow
2011–2013 Maastricht University Faculty of Law (NL)
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
2009–2011 Maastricht University Faculty of Law (NL)
Lecturer in international law
2005–2009 European University Institute Law Department, Florence (IT)
Researcher
2003 University of Oxford Faculty of Law(UK)
Research assistant to Professor Bronwen Morgan
Visiting Positions
2019 Michigan University Law School (US),
Michigan Grotius Senior Research Scholar
2016 European University Institute Law Department (IT)
Visiting Professor
2011 China–EU School of LawChina University of Political Science and Law, Beijing (CN)
Visiting Lecturer, international economic law
2010 Hasselt University Faculty of Law (BE)
Visiting Lecturer, international law
2010 China–EU School of Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing (CN)
2009 Hasselt University Faculty of Law (BE)
2009 University College Maastricht Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (NL)
Visiting Lecturer, international trade law
2009 University of Rome III, Faculty of Law (IT)
Adjunct Lecturer
Education
2005–2009 Law Department, European University Institute, Florence (IT)
Thesis on: ‘Reconciling Investor Rights with Public Healthin International Investment Law’. Supervisor: Professor Francesco Francioni
2005–2006 Law Department, European University Institute, Florence (IT)
2003–2005 Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Siena (IT)
Degree in Administrative Sciences
Thesis on: ‘The Delocalisation ofInternational Commercial Arbitration’.
Supervisor: Professor Giuliano Scarselli
Final Mark: 110 out of 110 Cum Laude
2003–2004 University of Oxford, Faculty of Law (UK)
Magister Juris (LLM) in European and Comparative Law (St Catherine’s College)
Merit 2:1; Average grade: 67; Supervisor: Dr. Michael Spence
Winner of the MPS Fellowship
2003 Faculty of Law, University of Siena (IT)
Degree in Public International Law
Thesis on: ‘The TRIPs Agreement: The Relationship between Intellectual Property Rights and Human Rights’.
Supervisor: Professor Francesco Francioni
1998–1999 Faculty of Law, University of Freiburg (CH)
SELECTED SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2019 Michigan University Law School, Michigan Grotius Research Scholar
Title: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ITS HISTORIES: Alberico Gentili
Principal Investigator.
2015–2018 European Research Council, Starting Grant
Title: HERITAGE —Cultural Heritage andEconomic Development in International and
European Law, Project No. 639564.Principal Investigator.
2013–2014 New York University, Emile Noël Postdoctoral fellowship
Title: Merchants of Law: Comparative Law and the Architecture of Global Economic Governance
2011–2013 EU Commission, Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellowship, individual grant
Title: Investing in Culture towards Economic and Social Development: International and European Law
Perspectives. Principal Investigator.
Collaborative Interdisciplinary International Research Projects
2014–2015 Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
Title of the research project: ‘International Law and the New Governance after the Economic Crisis’. Member of the research group.
2012 EU Commission, European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action IS003
Title of the research project: ‘International Law between Constitutionalization and Fragmentation:
The Role of Law in the Post-national Constellation’. Member of the research group.
2011 China–EU School of Law, Beijing, China
Title of the project ‘China and Non-Trade Concerns’
Member of the Research Group.
2010-ongoing United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
International Investment ArbitrationExpert Network, Expert
International law; international economic law; history and theory of international law
Publications
Books
Special Issues
Articles in Journals
Chapters in Books
52. V. Vadi, ‘The World Heritage Convention and International Investment Law’ in F. Francioni and F. Lenzerini (eds) The 1972 World Heritage Convention: A Commentary, II edition (Oxford: OUP forthcoming 2022);
53. V. Vadi, ‘The Investment Award in a Historical Perspective’ in K. Fach Gomez and C. Titi (eds) The Award in International Investment Arbitration (Oxford: OUP forthcoming 2023);
54. V. Vadi, ‘Spatio-Temporal Dimensions of Indigenous Sovereignty in International Law’, in A. Di Blase and V. Vadi (eds) The Inherent Rights of Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Rome: University of Rome III 2020) 87–114;
55. V. Vadi, ‘The Protection of Indigenous Cultural Heritage in International Investment Law and Arbitration’ in A. Di Blase and V. Vadi (eds), The Inherent Rights of Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Roma: Roma III Press 2020) 197–244;
56. V. Vadi [with A. Di Blase], ‘Introducing the Inherent Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ in A. Di Blase and V. Vadi (eds) The Inherent Rights of Indigenous Peoples in International Law (Rome: University of Rome III 2020) [V. Vadi authored sections 1 and 4; A. Di Blase authored sections 2 and 3] 15–39;
57. V. Vadi, ‘The Environmental Health Spillovers of Foreign Direct Investment in International Investment Arbitration’, in S. Negri (ed) Environmental Health in International and EU Law: Current Challenges and Legal Responses (Torino: Giappichelli–Routledge Studies in Law 2019) 25–40;
58. V. Vadi, ‘Global v. Local: The Protection of Indigenous Heritage in International Economic Law’, in S. Sargent and Jo Samantha (eds.) A New Millennium for Indigenous Rights, II ed. (Buckingham: Buckingham University Press 2019)(revised and updated chapter) 13–40;
59. V. Vadi, ‘War on Land in Renaissance Europe’, in The Cambridge History of International Law, vol. VI, R. Lesaffer (ed.) International Law in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: CUP forthcoming 2021)(invited contribution);
60. V. Vadi, ‘Cultural Heritage in International Investment Law’ in A.F. Vrdoljak and F. Francioni (eds.), Oxford Handbook on Cultural Heritage Law (Oxford: OUP 2020) 483–506;
61. V. Vadi, ‘Natural Resources and Indigenous Cultural Heritage in International Investment Law and Arbitration’, in K. Miles (ed.), Research Handbook on Environment and International Investment Law (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2019) 464–479, ISBN: 978 1 78471 462 8;
62. V. Vadi, ‘Human Rights and Investments at the World Trade Organization’, in Y. Radi (ed.), Research Handbook on Human Rights and Investments (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2019) 158–185, ISBN978 1 78254 911 6;
63. V. Vadi, ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage and Trade’, in C. Waelde, C. Cummings, M. Parvis, and H. Enright (eds.), Research Handbook on Contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2018) 398–415, ISBN 9781786434005 (cased); ISBN 9781786434012 (eBook);
64. V. Vadi, ‘Global Administrative Law’, in C. May and A. Winchester (eds.), Research Handbook on the Rule of Law (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2018) 322–332, ISBN 9781786432438;
65. V. Vadi, ‘Exploring the Borderlands: The Role of Private Actors in International Cultural Law’, in J. Summers and A. Gough (eds.), Non-State Actors and International Obligations—Creation, Evolution and Enforcement (Leiden: Brill 2018) 109–125, ISBN: 978-90-04-34025-1;
66. V. Vadi, ‘Local Communities, Cultural Heritage and International Economic Law’, in L. Biukovic, and P. Potter (eds), Local Engagement with International Economic Law and Human Rights (Cheltenham: EE 2017) 150–168, ISBN 9781785367182;
67. V. Vadi, ‘Global v. Local: The Protection of Indigenous Heritage in International Economic Law’, in S. Sargent and Jo Samantha (eds.) A New Millennium for Indigenous Rights (Buckingham: Buckingham University Press 2017) 7–36,ISBN 9781908684165;
68. V. Vadi, ‘Food Wars: Food, Intangible Cultural Heritage and International Trade’, in L. Westra, J. Gray and A. D’Aloia (eds),The Common Good and Ecological Integrity — Human Rights and the Support of Life (London: Routledge 2016) 49-60, ISBN 9781138668225;
69. V. Vadi, ‘A History of Success? Proportionality in International Economic Law’, in Antonio Segura Serrano (ed.),The Reform of International Economic Governance (London/New York: Routledge 2016) 171–192, ISBN 9781472471406;
70. V. Vadi, ‘Investment Disputes, Pharmaceutical Patents and Health-Related Goods’, in A. Alemanno and E. Bonadio (eds.)The New Intellectual Property of Health — Beyond Plain Packaging (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2016) 233–254, ISBN 9781784718787;
71.V. Vadi, ‘Balancing Human Rights, Climate Change and Foreign Investment Protection’, in O. Quirico and M. Boumghar (eds.) Climate Change and Human Rights: an International Law Perspective (London and New York: Routledge 2016) 189–200, ISBN 9781138783218;
72. V. Vadi, ‘Law, Culture and the Politics of Chinese Outward Foreign Investment’ in P. Farah and E. Cima (eds.) China’s Influence on Non-Trade Concerns in International Economic Law (London/New York: Routledge 2016) 98–112, ISBN 9781315571713;
73. V. Vadi, ‘Introducing Culture and International Economic Law’,in V. Vadi and B. De Witte (eds.) Culture and International Economic Law (London and New York: Routledge 2015) 1–16, ISBN 978-0415723268;
74. V. Vadi, ‘Cultural Heritage in International Economic Law’, in V. Vadi and B. De Witte (eds.) Culture and International Economic Law (London and New York: Routledge 2015) 53–71, ISBN 978-0415723268;
75. V. Vadi, ‘Nature, Culture and Development in International Trade Law’, in M. Fitzmaurice, S. Maljean-Dubois and S. Negri (eds.) Challenges of Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development from Rio to Rio+20 and Beyond (Leiden/Boston: Brill/Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2014) 353–377, ISBN 9789004282902;
76. V. Vadi, ‘Public Goods, Foreign Investments and the International Protection of Cultural Heritage’,in A. Vrdoljak and F. Lenzerini (eds.) International Law for Common Goods — Normative Perspectives on Human Rights, Culture and Nature (Oxford: Richard Hart, 2014) 231–248, ISBN 978-1849465199;
77. V. Vadi (with L.Gruszczynski),‘Standard of Review and Scientific Evidence in WTO Law and International Investment Arbitration: Converging Parallels?’,in L. Gruszczynski and W. Werner (eds.) Deference in International Courtsand Tribunals: Standard of Review and Margin of Appreciation (Oxford: OUP 2014) 152–172, ISBN 9780198716945;
78. V. Vadi, ‘Foreign Investment in the Energy Sector and Public Health’, in E. De Brabandere and T.Gazzini (eds.) Foreign Investment in the Energy Sector: Balancing Private and Public Interests (Leiden: Brill 2014) 238–258, ISBN9789004244702;
79. V. Vadi and H. Schneider, ‘Art, Cultural Heritage and the Market: Legal and Ethical Issues’, inV. Vadi and H. Schneider (eds.) Art, Cultural Heritage and the Market: Ethical and Legal Issues (Heidelberg: Springer 2014) 1–26, ISBN 9783642450945;
80. V. Vadi, ‘Underwater Cultural Heritage and the Market: The Uncertain Fate of Historic Sunken Warships under International Law’, inV. Vadi and H. Schneider (eds.) Art, Cultural Heritage and the Market: Ethical and Legal Issues (Heidelberg: Springer 2014) 221–256, ISBN 9783642450945;
81. V. Vadi,‘Tobacco Wars, Analogies and Standards of Review in International Investment Arbitration’, in L. Westra, P. Taylor and A. Michelot (eds.) Confronting Ecological and Economic Collapse: Ecological Integrity for Law, Policy and Human Rights (London: Earthscan, 2013) 226–237, ISBN 9780415825252;
82. V. Vadi, ‘Culture, Development and International Law: The Linkage between Investment Rules and the Protection of Cultural Heritage’, in S. Borelli and F. Lenzerini (eds.) Cultural Heritage, Cultural Rights, Cultural Diversity—International Law Perspectives (Leiden/Boston: Brill 2012) 413–434, ISBN 9789004228399;
83. V. Vadi, ‘The Beauty of Unity? Intellectual Property Rights v. Public Health in International Investment Arbitration’ in C. Tams and R. Hoffmann (eds.) Investment Law and Its Others (Nomos: 2012) 167–190, ISBN 978-3-8329-7866-2;
84. V. Vadi, ‘Trademarks v. Public Health in International Investment Law and Arbitration’ in R. Sapienza (ed.) La Tutela dei diritti umani e il diritto internazionale XVI Convegno SIDI Catania 23-24 giugno 2011 (Conference Proceedings of the XVI Annual Meeting of Italian Society of International Law)(Naples: Editoriale Scientifica 2012) 453–479, ISBN 9788863423297;
85. V. Vadi, ‘The Protection of Cultural Landscapes and Indigenous Heritage in International Investment Law’, in L. Westra, C. Soskolne, and D. Spady (eds.) Human Health & Ecological Integrity –Ethics, Law and Human Rights (London: Earthscan 2012) 250–261, ISBN 9780415504270;
86. V. Vadi, ‘Culture Clash: Valuing Heritage in Investment Disputes’, in A. Perry-Kessaris (ed.) Socio-Legal Approaches to International Economic Law: Text, Context, Subtext (Abingdon: Routledge 2012) 181–194 ISBN 9780415510165;
87. V. Vadi,‘Underwater Cultural Heritage and International Investment Law’, in J. Henderson (ed.) Beyond Boundaries: Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress on Underwater Archaeology, 9th to the 12th July 2008, London (Bonn: Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts/Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institutes/Rudolf Habelt, 2012) 35–40, ISBN 9783774938007;
88. V. Vadi, ‘Reconciling Environmental Health and Investors’ Rights in International Investment Law’ in J. R. Engel, L. Westra and K. Bosselmann (eds.), Democracy, Ecological Integrity and International Law (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010) 226–246, ISBN 978-1443817677;
89. V. Vadi, ‘Access to Medicines versus Protection of “Investments” in Intellectual Property: Reconciliation through Interpretation?’ in A. Perry-Kessaris (ed.) Law in the Pursuit of Development: Principles into Practice? (London: Routledge 2009) 52–67,ISBN 9780415589628;
90. V. Vadi, ‘Reconciling Public Health and Investor Rights: The Case of Tobacco’, in P.-M. Dupuy, F. Francioni and E.-U. Petersmann (eds.) Human Rights in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Oxford: OUP 2009) 452–486, ISBN 9780199578184;
Book Reviews
91. V. Vadi, book review of Nicolás Perrone, Investment Treaties & the Legal Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2021) 25(1) Journal of International Economic Law (forthcoming 2022);
92. V. Vadi, review essay of A.D. Mitchell and T. Voon (eds.) The Global Tobacco Epidemic and the Law (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar 2014) 16(2) Melbourne Journal of International Law (2015) 648–58;
93. V. Vadi, ‘Alberico Gentili on Roman Imperialism: Dialectic Antinomies’, review essay of B. Kingsbury et al. (eds) The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations (Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2010)16 Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d’histoire du droit international (2014) 157–177, Brill/Nijhoff, ISSN 1388-199X, EISSN 1571-8050;
94. V. Vadi, book review of K. Miles, The Origins of International Investment Law – Empire, Environment and the Safeguarding of Capital (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) 84 British Yearbook of International Law (2013) 370-372, Oxford University Press, Online ISSN 2044-9437, Print ISSN 0068-2691;
95. V. Vadi, book review of Stephan W. Schill (ed) International Investment Law and Comparative Public Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010) 1 Journal of Comparative Law (2013) 244–247, ISSN 1477-0814;
96. V. Vadi, book review of Stephan W. Schill (ed) International Investment Law and Comparative Public Law (Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press 2010) 15(3) Journal of International Economic Law (2012) 917–20, Oxford University Press, Online ISSN 1464-3758 - Print ISSN 1369-3034;
97. V. Vadi, book review of Jacques de Werra (ed) La résolution des litiges de proprieté intellectuelle (Brussels: Bruylant 2010) Transnational Dispute Management (2011) 1–6, ISSN 1875–4120;
98. V. Vadi, book review of Bryan Horrigan, Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2010) Legal Studies—The Journal of the Society of Legal Scholars (2011) 667–670, ISSN 1748-121X;
99. V. Vadi, book review of Santiago Montt, State Liability in Investment Treaty Arbitration- Global Constitutional and Administrative Law in the BIT Generation (Oxford and Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing 2009) 14 Journal of International Economic Law 2 (2011) 715–718, Oxford University Press, Online ISSN 1464-3758 - Print ISSN 1369-3034;
100. V. Vadi, book review of Elsa Stamatopoulou, Cultural Rights in International Law (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff 2007) 21 European Journal of International Law 4 (2010) 1111–1115, Oxford University Press, Online ISSN 1464-3596 - Print ISSN 0938-5428;
101. V. Vadi, ‘Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum—If You Wish for Peace Prepare for War’, book review of John W. Head, Losing the Global Development War. A Contemporary Critique of the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff 2008) American Society of International Law International Organizations Interest Group Review (Fall 2009) 14–21;
102. V. Vadi, ‘Winning the Global Development War’, 2 European Journal of Legal Studies 2 (2009) 102–115, ISSN 1973-2937.
Other Publications
103. V. Vadi, ‘Cultural Heritage and Foreign Investment’ in Claire Smith (ed) Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology (Springer: 2019) 1–6;
104. V. Vadi, ‘Culture’, in K. Nadakavukaren Schefer and T. Cottier (eds.), Encyclopaedia of International Economic Law (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar 2017) 246–7, ISBN 978-1-78471-353-9;
105. V. Vadi, ‘North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Disputes’, 22 Yearbook of International Environmental Law (2011), 590–595, Oxford University Press, Online ISSN 2045-0052 - Print ISSN 0965-1721
106. V. Vadi, ‘North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Disputes’, 21 Yearbook of International Environmental Law (2010) 537–541, Oxford University Press, Online ISSN 2045-0052 - Print ISSN 0965-1721;
107. V. Vadi, ‘Investing in Underwater Cultural Heritage: Challenges and Prospects’, 3 American Bar Association Art and Cultural Heritage Law Newsletter (2011), 9–11;
108. V. Vadi, ‘NAFTA: A Year in Review’, 20 Yearbook of International Environmental Law (2009), 735–745, Oxford University Press, Online ISSN 2045-0052 - Print ISSN 0965-1721.
SELECTED Conferences
Conferences and Workshops Organized
3 March 2016 European University Institute
Co-organization of the Workshop
(with Professor Francesco Francioni)
3–6 September 2013 University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Co-organization of the Society of Legal Scholars open session
(with Dr. Celine Tan)
20–21 June 2013 Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Co-organization of the international conference Culture and International Economic Law
(with Professor Bruno de Witte)
25–6 March 2013 MaastrichtUniversity, the Netherlands
Co-organization of the international conference Art and Heritage Disputes
(with Professor Hildegard Schneider)
Conference Presentations
Since 2007, I have presented over 100 conference papers upon invitation in Europe, Asia, and North America. I have presented at the following universities: Athens, Bern; Birkbeck College, University of London; Bologna; Buckingham; Cambridge; Catania; Charles University, Prague; China University of Political Science and Law; City University of London; Coimbra; Edinburgh; European University Institute, Florence; Florence; Geneva; Georgetown; Glasgow; Goethe University, Frankfurt; Granada; Groningen; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Kent; King’s College, University of London; Lancaster; La Rochelle; Leiden; Liverpool; London School of Economics; Maastricht, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo; Michigan; Minnesota; Monash; Naples (Federico II); National University Singapore; New York University; Oxford; Parma; Pisa (Sant’Anna); Québec (Montreal);Queen Mary, University of London; Rome La Sapienza; Rome III; School of Advanced Study, University of London; Seville; Siena; Southampton; Sussex; Trento; Trieste; Turin; Universidad Autonoma Madrid; University College London; Verona; Warwick; York.
I have been invited to present at events organized by the following organizations: American Society of International Law; Association for Law, Property and Society; British Association for Canadian Studies; British Institute of International and Comparative Law; Canadian Political Science Association; European Research Council; European Society of International Law; Global Ecological Integrity Group; International Law Association (British Branch); International Society of Public Law (ICON-S); Italian Society of International Law; Italian Society of Law and Economics; Latin-American Council of Scholars on International and Comparative Law; Law & Society Association; Society of International Economic Law; Society of Legal Scholars; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
SELECTED Professional Services
Globalizzazione (International Economic Law and Globalization).
Board International Trade Law and Regulation (March 2018–ongoing);
International Journal of Cultural Property (May 2021- April 2023);
Students and Junior Academics (2020);
Philip Leverhulme Trust (UK) – reviewer for the postdoctoral fellowship Leverhulme
Prize in Law (2020);
University of Padua — reviewer for the funding programme 'Supporting TAlents in
ReSearch@University of Padova' (STARS Grants) 2019
Membership
Languages
IT Skills
Proficient in Windows ME, Word, Internet Explorer, Power Point and some Web Design
