Elisabetta Morlino is a Full Professor of Administrative Law at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples, where she teaches Administrative Law and Environmental Law.
She is currently a Jemolo Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
She is a member of the NATO/NSPA Independent Award Review and Debarment Board, a judicial body that adjudicates disputes between NATO and private entities concerning public procurement.
She serves as Book Editor and member of the Editorial Board of the International Organizations Law Review and has previously been an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Constitutional Law.
She has been a Senior Emile Noël Fellow and Emile Noël Fellow at the New York University School of Law (Jean Monnet Center) and visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.
She has been adjunct professor at SciencesPo University (Paris), the Université Catholique of Lille, the Global School of Law of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon), the Academy of European Public Law of the European Public Law Organization (Athens), LUISS Guido Carli (Rome).
She earned her Ph.D. in International Administrative Law at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and the Italian Institute of Human Sciences (now the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa) and her Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Legal Studies at New York University School of Law as a Hugo Grotius Scholar. She graduated in Law, with honors, from the University of Florence. During her university studies, she was an exchange student at the New York University School of Law.
Before embarking on her academic career, she worked at the International Fund for Agricultural Development in Rome and as an extern in the legal office of the United Nations in New York.
She served as a member of the Interministerial Commission for the reform of the Italian Environmental Code.
She is a member of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), the European Society of International Law (ESIL), IRPA, and the network Public Contracts in Legal Globalization/Contrats Publics dans la Globalisation Juridique (since 2009). Since 2019, she has been a member of the Executive Board of IRPA, and since 2024, she is member of the Council of ICON-S Italy.
She is the author of several books (I contratti delle organizzazioni internazionali, Editoriale Scientifica, 2012, pp. 383; Procurement by International Organizations: A Global Administrative Law Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 514; Amministrare e punire. La tutela dell’ambiente tra procedimento amministrativo e processo penale, Franco Angeli, 2020, pp. 320), as well as essays and articles on international organizations, accountability of public powers, public contracts, environmental protection, gender equality in public administrations.
Her current research interests focus on three main areas: the relationship between power and accountability, the connections between the environment and democracy, the privatization processes of international organizations.