Comparative Law in a Global Perspective

Valentina Volpe is an associate professor of public international law and the co-director of the Master in Human Rights, Security, and Development at the Law School of the Université Catholique de Lille (France). She is also a senior research affiliate and a former senior research fellow (post-doc) at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL) in Heidelberg (Germany) and an adjunct professor at Sciences Po in Paris, Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome, and Los Andes University in Bogota’. Valentina has studied law in Italy, France, and the US. She is a former visiting researcher at Yale Law School and holds a Ph.D. summa cum laude in Law and Legal Theory from the Italian Institute of Human Sciences (SUM) of Naples (currently the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa). Her research interests cover the fields of comparative and international public law, encompassing disciplines such as global governance, comparative constitutional law, non-state actors, democracy promotion, human rights, and global law. She has also served as a visiting professor at the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) in Beijing, the UN-mandate University for Peace (UPEACE) in San José (Costa Rica), Lille Catholic University (Paris campus), and the University of Mannheim (Germany). She is a member of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), the Law and Society Association (LSA), the Istituto di Ricerche sulla Pubblica Amministrazione (IRPA), the Centre de Recherche sur les Relations entre le Risque et le Droit (C3RD), and the Centre de Recherche sur les Droits de l’Homme et le Droit Humanitaire (CRDH). Prior to her pursuits in academia, Valentina also worked as a project manager for a grassroots NGO active in the areas of international cooperation and human rights protection.