Elisabetta Morlino is Full Professor of Administrative and Environmental Law at the University Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, IT.
She is currently Senior Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice of the NYU School of Law and adjunct professor at the Global School of Law of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa of Lisbon and at the Université Catholique of Lille. Previously, she has been adjoint professor at the University of SciencePo (Paris), at the LUISS Guido Carli (Rome) and at the Academy of European Public Law of the European Public Law Organization (Athens).
She has been appointed Jemolo Fellow at the Nuffield College of the University of Oxford for the a.y. 2024-2025.
She has been Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice of the NYU School of Law and visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany.
She is currently a member of the Interministerial Committee for the reform of the Italian Environmental Code.
She has been a member of the NATO/ NSPA Independent Award Review and Debarment Board, an independent judicial body deciding on public procurement disputes between NATO and private parties.
She has been awarded the ICONS Book Prize 2020 by the International Society of Public Law for the book Procurement by International Organizations. A Global Administrative Law Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).
She is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Constitutional Law and sits on the Editorial Board of the International Organizations Law Review.
She holds a Ph.D. in Global Law from the University of Roma La Sapienza jointly with the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (now Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy) and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Legal Studies at NYU School of Law (NY, USA), as Hugo Grotius Scholar.
She graduated with honors from the School of Law of the University of Firenze (Italy).
She has been an exchange student at the New York University School of Law (a.y. 2002-2003).
Prior to joining academia, she has worked for the International Fund for Agricultural Development in Rome and, as an extern, for the UN Office of Legal Affairs in New York.
Her publications include: ‘I contratti delle organizzazioni internazionali’ (Naples: Editoriale Scientifica, 2012, pp. 383); ‘Procurement by International Organizations. A Global Administrative Law Perspective’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 514, also at https://bit.ly/2sHI8yO); ‘Amministrare e punire. La tutela dell’ambiente tra procedimento amministrativo e processo penale’, Milan: Franco Angeli, 2020, pp. 320); and essays and articles in the field of international organizations, procurement, liability of public administrations, environmental protection, gender and public administrations, mutual recognition in services, privacy and global regulation.
She is member of the International Society of Public Law (Icon-s), of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), of the Istituto di ricerche sulle pubblica amministrazione (IRPA), of the Public Contracts in Legal Globalization/Contrats Publics dans la Globalisation Juridique Network, of the Academic Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES).
She collaborates with the Giornale di diritto amministrativo, Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico and Munus – Rivista giuridica dei servizi pubblici.
Since 2019 she sits on the Board of Directors of IRPA.