LEONARDO BORLINI

I currently teach International Law, Law International Trade and Investment Law, Topics in International and European Law, Comparative Business and European Law, and National and International Institutions Law.

M.sc in Economics and Business Administration from Bocconi University (magna cum laude) and M.sc in Law (J.D. equivalent) from the University of Pavia (magna cum laude). LL.M from the University of Cambridge. Ph.D. in International Law and Economics from Bocconi University (magna cum laude). Attorney-at-Law at the Milan Bar.

At Bocconi, I am a Faculty Member of the Ph.D. in Legal Studies, a Fellow at BAFFI CAREFIN (Centre for Applied Research on International Markets, Banking, Finance, and Regulation), a Research Fellow at the Institute for European Policymaking, and a member of the Bocconi Covid Crisis Lab. I’m co-editor in chief of the Bocconi Legal Papers Research Series. 

In 2021, I was unanimously declared a Full Professor of International Law by the Italian National Scientific Committee. In 2018, I was unanimously declared an Associate Professor of International Law.

In 2019, I was a Fulbright Grant Researcher at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Since a.y. 2020-2021, I have been a Visiting Professor at the School of Transnational Law at Peking University and, since 2022-2023, a Visiting Professor at the Singapore Management University, Yong Pung How School of Law. In July 2023, I was appointed External Ethics Advisor to the Ethics Committee of the Boards of Directors of the African Development Bank Group. In 2016-2017 and 2017-2018, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

Before joining Bocconi University, I was an Associate Lawyer at the Regulatory Department of Grande Stevens Law firm in Milan. Apart from my academic appointments, I have served the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a Technical Assistance Specialist (2011-2013) and authored and co-authored reports commissioned by the Council of Europe, the European Commission, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the World Bank, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Since 2011, I have participated in technical assistance programs led by the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the IMF, and the Inter-American Development Bank, with field missions in Greece, Vietnam, Panama, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Georgia. Since June 2023, I have been a member of the Task Force on the EU-China trade and investment relations created by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. I was a member of the Italian delegation to the V Conference of State Parties of the United Nations Convention against Corruption. 

I have lately edited and contributed to the Special Issue: The Resurgence of the State as an Economic Actor, published in 24(1) German Law Journal (2023).

Below are the Introductory Editorial and Special Issue links.

Editorial:

https://germanlawjournal.com/editorial-volume-24-no-1/ 

Special Issue (Open Access):

https://germanlawjournal.com/volume-24-issue-1/

For my article Deepening International Systems of Subsidy Control in EU PTAs: A Comparative Analysis. Normative Rationales and Legal Implications, in 23(3) Columbia Journal of European Law, 2016/17, 551, in May 2019, I received the ‘Leonardo Da Vinci Medal,’ awarded for the best scientific or artistic original work by a young Italian researcher, as well as the University Bocconi Legal Studies Award 2018. The article is available here. m 

I am a generalist public international lawyer with a keen interest in international economic law. Beyond this field, I have worked on a variety of specialist areas, such as the law of treaties; UN maintenance of international peace and security; international criminal law; human rights; and the law of the EU (External action; Common commercial policy, Competition policy).

My research has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as the European Journal of International Law, Leiden Journal of International Law, Virginia Journal of International Law, American Journal of International Law, German Law Journal ,Revue générale de droit international public, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Columbia Journal of European Law, International Journal of Constitutional Law ICON, NYU Journal of International Law & Politics and Yearbook of European Law. For my article Deepening International Systems of Subsidy Control in EU PTAs: A Comparative Analysis. Normative Rationales and Legal Implications, (with C. Dordi), in 23(3) Columbia Journal of European Law, 2016/17, 551, in May 2019, I received the ‘Leonardo Da Vinci Medal’, awarded for the best scientific or artistic original work by an Italian young researcher, as well as the University Bocconi Legal Studies Award 2018.