Fabrizio MARRELLA
Fabrizio Marrella, (LLD summa cum laude, Université de Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, LLD Bologna University Law School, Diploma of The Hague Academy of International Law) is currently Univ. Full Professor of International Law (Public and Private) and European Union Law at "Cà Foscari" University of Venice in Italy. He was its Vice Rector/Chancellor for International Affairs in 2020-2023.
He is a lawyer admitted to the Supreme Court (Cassazionista) in Italy and the European Union. He has experience as Counsel before International and European courts as well as in International Arbitration.
He is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Italian.
He began his career in arbitration as an Associate and later as a Special Counsel to Professor Giorgio Bernini, Professor of Law at the University of Bologna (Italy) and the President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA). He is the Co-Editor of the Mélanges "Arbitrato, contratti e diritto del commercio internazionale - Arbitration, Contracts and International Trade Law. Essays in honor of Giorgio Bernini", Milan, Giuffré-Francis Lefebvre, 2021.
Over his career he has researched, taught and practiced International Law, International Arbitration, International Investment Law, International Business Law, Private International Law and Maritime Law as well as Business and Human Rights. He is author of more than 100 publications in those fields.
He is the Co-Author of a world reference textbook on International Law (with Professors Dominique Carreau and Andrea Hamann) in French, in Italian and soon in Spanish (English and Arabic are foreseen), and he is the author of the first and most important textbook on International Business Law in Italy (with a foreword by Prof. A. Giardina). His latest book on «Arbitrage transnational d’investissement et conflits armés » (Transnational Investment Arbitration and Armed Conflicts"), published in the top notch series "Cours et travaux de l’IHEI, l’Institut des hautes études internationales (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas)" by Pedone, Paris, 2025, has been presented during the Paris Arbitration Week in April 2025. Its main publications include "La nuova lex mercatoria. Principi Unidroit ed usi dei contratti del commercio internazionale", in the Italian Treatise of Commercial Law and Public Economic Law directed by Prof. Francesco Galgano, Padua, Cedam, 2003, with a foreword by H. Grigera Naon and book reviews by Pierre Lalive, Philippe Fouchard and Philippe Kahn.
Prof. Marrella is a General Editor of the Cambridge University Press Book Series EIUC Studies on Human Rights as well as a Co-Director (with Prof. M. Ventoruzzo of Bocconi University of Milan) of the new Treatise of Commercial Law and Private International Law edited in Italy by Giuffré-Francis Lefebvre. He is a Member of the Scientific or Editorial Boards of several journals in the International Law and Arbitration fields.
He has lectured in top Universities across the world (i.e. Harvard, Columbia,Vanderbilt, Paris I and Paris II, Madrid, Belem, Buenos Aires, Geneva, Moscow, CUPL Beijing, Hitotsubashi Tokyo) as well as for professional organisations. In 2013 he delivered a course at The Hague Academy of International Law on “Protection internationale des droits de l'homme et activités des sociétés transnationales/International Protection of Human Rights and Activities of Transnational Corporations", published in RCADI, vol. 385, 2017, pp. 33-435. From 2008 to 2011 he was the European Programme Director of the European Masters’ Program in Human Rights and Democratisation of the European Inter-university Center for Human rights and Democratisation/Global Campus of Human Rights (EIUC) and from 2011 to 2015 he was Dean of the Human Rights Village. Previously, he was Adjunct Professor of International Business Law at the IHEAL (Institute for Advanced Studies on Latin America) of the Université de Paris III-La Sorbonne Nouvelle and Lecturer at the Institut de Droit Comparé de Paris (Université de Paris II Panthéon Assas).
Prof. Marrella lives in Venice, Italy and can be reached via email at: marrella@unive.it or fabmarrella@gmail.com or via Linkedin.
