Lorenza Mola

Lorenza Mola is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Turin, Department of Law. She holds the Italian habilitation to full professorship since September 2022. Among her current positions and tasks at the University of Turin, she acts as a member of the board of the PhD in Law, The Person and The Market. She has been in the scientific committee and in the board of directors of the Master of Laws in International Trade Law since 2014, as director from 2019 to 2022. She is a member of the Italian Society of International Law, of the Italian Branch of the International Law Association, of the Law Schools Global League Working Group on International Trade Law, of the Academic Network on the European Social Charter and on Economic and Social Rights. Lorenza holds a PhD in International Economic Law from “Bocconi” University (Milan) and a M.Sc. in European Studies (External Relations) from the Institut d’Etudes Européennes of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She was visiting research fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (London) and at the Max Planck Institute for Public Comparative Law and International Law (Heidelberg). She also gained professional experience at the Italian Mission to the WTO, at the European Commission's DG Trade/Investment Unit, as an external consultant for the Italian Development Cooperation, and as research counsel on customs law. Lorenza has taken part to local, national and international projects, also as coordinator, including of a Marie Curie Fellow. She authored two books, one on national security in international investment law (2010), the other on the international control on the implementation by States of their international human rights obligations in the framework of the European Social Charter (2022); co-edited books and special issues on academic journals; and published articles and chapters in Italian and foreign/international journals and books. While broadly teaching and researching on International Law, her main research fields are international economic law, international human rights law, and the law of EU external relations.