International Litigation and Advisory

Litigation, Advisory, Expert, Experience

Further experience beyond arbitration and UNESCO experience, includes acting as:

Court Litigation, Appearance in Court

Member of the Rome Bar, Legal Counsel, Party Representation

Before Italian courts, at times English and French courts

Legal Counsel and Consultant:

Various transactional work, including the negotiation and drafting of international contracts

Independent Legal Expert for Corporations and Law Firms 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) EU law

Independent Expert and Advisor to International Organizations in:

i) Public international law, matters sovereign immunity and State responsibility

ii) Feasibility study concerning the creation of an International Legal Entity for the Protection of Software (Feasibility under international, EU and national Law)

Independent Expert and Advisor to Governments (beyond UNESCO experience):

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

Independent Expert and Advisor to the EU for EU Law-making:

Independent Legal Expert to the European Union: expert in comparative conflict of laws (private inetrantional law) for the ESEC in the elaboration of the E.U. Regulation 650/2012 of 4 July 2012 on International Successions (Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments)

Expert for the EU Parliament on the Feasability of a EU Regulation on Looted  Art

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) during the negotiation of the UNIDROIT Convention on the Return of Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects