My main areas of scholarly work remain international courts and tribunals and international human rights. Over the past five years I increasingly took interest in the intersection between human rights and science.

These are the projects I am working on these days.

On the human rights front, I am working with my students on two communications for UN human rights bodies: one on children who lost life or limbs during the 2019 invasion of North Syria by Turkish forces, and another on Russia’s program to dope Olympic athletes.

Scholarly, I am writing

• a book, together with Andrea Boggio, of Bryant University, on the right to science (i.e. the right to benefit from progress in science and technology) and on the rights of scientists.
• two articles (one in Italian and one in English) on the Human Rights Committee ground-breaking decision in Staderini and De Lucia v Italy.
• the second edition of the OUP Handbook of International Adjudication (which will also be published in Chinese).
• an entry for the Max Plank Encyclopedia of Constitutional Law on “The Right to Science and the Rights of Science in National Constitutions”.
• an entry for the Max Plank Encyclopedia of Procedural Law on “The Financing of Human Rights Bodies”.

And, finally, on both human rights and international courts front:

For the past nine years, I have been working on a major multi-year project with the students of the International and Comparative Law Review (ILR). The aim is to create the first complete and up-to-date compilation of summaries of cases decided by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR). The IACHR does not provide easily understandable and accurate summaries of the cases it decides and, although there are a few universities and organizations that have prepared summaries of some cases, they are not complete or exhaustive. The summaries are published online, on our school’s website.