Profile

Alberto Alemanno is Associate Professor of Law at at HEC Paris, where he holds a Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law & Risk Regulation. He teaches EU law, International Economic Law, Global Antitrust and Risk Regulation. He is also Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches Global Risk Regulation, and a qualified attorney at law in New York since 2004. Prior to join the HEC faculty, he clerked for Judge Allan Rosas and Judge Alexander Arabadjiev at the Court of Justice of the European Union and for Enzo Moavero Milanesi, the current Italian Minister for European Affairs, at the European General Court. He previously worked as a Teaching Assistant at the College of Europe in Bruges.

 

During the last years, Alemanno’s research has been centred on the role of science and expertise within the emerging law of risk regulation in both the EU and the WTO legal orders. In particular, he is interested in the relationship between the regulatory competence of states in furtherance of domestic policies of general interest and concern, such as public health and food safety, and the preservation of a liberal international trade framework. He explores, in particular, the use of scientific evidence in regulatory decision-making and in the judicial review of science-based measures by courts. At present, he is working on the emerging phenomenon of disclosure of risk-related information, by focusing on the intersection between consumer information/concerns and the law of the WTO. He aims at exploring the extent to which members of the World Trade Organization possess regulatory autonomy to integrate socio-economic considerations in the pursuance of their domestic policies of general interest. He is also working on a textbook devoted to the EU law of risk regulation.

 

Alemanno has published Trade in Food - Regulatory and Judicial Approaches in the EC and the WTO (Cameron May, 2007), a monograph devoted to the evolving and emotive area of food and trade law.  He has edited several volumes, among which Governing Disasters - The Challenges of Emergency Risk Regulation (Edward Elgar, 2011). He has also published extensively in academic journals such as the Harvard International Law Journal, the European Law Journal, the European Journal of Consumer Law, European Public Law and the Revue du Droit de l’Union européenne. He has contributed to several edited volumes.

 

Alemanno is the founder and editor of the European Journal of Risk Regulation and he is a member of the editorial boards of the Revue du Droit de l’Union européenne, the European Food and Feed Law Review and the Area Editor for Policy of Risk Analysis: An International Journal. He regularly acts as a reviewer on an ad hoc basis for several international peer-reviewed journals, such as Regulation & Governance and the Journal of Common Market Studies.. Alemanno is the founder and scientific director of the Summer Academy in Global Food Law & Policy, a sort of 'Davos' for international and national food regulators.

 

Alemanno has also provided advice to a variety of organizations on various aspects of European Union law, WTO law and risk regulation. Among other organizations, he has advised on projects involving the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the European Commission (DG SANCO - DG Enlargement - TAIEX), the European Food Safety Authority, the European Court of Auditors and the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA). He has served as the Chair of the Risk, Policy and Law Specialty Group of the Society for Risk Analysis as well as an elected member of the board of SRA-Europe.

 

Originally from Italy, Alemanno earned a Laurea in Giurisprudenza cum laude from the Università degli Studi di Torino, LLM degrees from Harvard Law School and the College of Europe, and a PhD in International Law & Economics from Bocconi University.

 

He is the former Chair of the Risk Policy and Law Specialty Group of the Society for Risk Analysis. He is also one of the founders of the first Italian blog devoted to the law of the European Union, diritticomparati.it, and a guest blogger at adjudicatingeurope.eu, EUtopia Law and ParisTech Review.

 

Professor Alemanno is a regular speaker at international conferences and has also taught at Georgetown University Law Center, Bocconi University, Liège Law School, the Academy of European Law (ERA), the European Institute of Public Admnistration (EIPA), EDHEC Business School, Lyon Jean Moulin III Law School, Lyon Catholic University, Fribourg Law School, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa) and Macau Law School.