Biography

Valentina Vadi is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the School of Political Sciences of the University of Florence and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. She was formerly a Research Fellow at the University of Padua (2023-2024), Professor of International Economic Law at Lancaster University (2015-2021), a Michigan Grotius Senior Research Scholar at Michigan University Law School (2019), an Emile Noël Fellow at New York University (2013-2014), and a Marie Curie Fellow at Maastricht University (2011-2013).

She holds degrees in international law and political science from the University of Siena, a Master of Research and a Ph.D. from the European University Institute, and an MJur from the University of Oxford.

Vadi published more than eighty articles in various areas of public international law in top journals. She is the author of Public Health in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Routledge 2012), Cultural Heritage in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press 2014), Analogies in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press 2016), Proportionality, Reasonableness and Standards of Review in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Edward Elgar 2018), War and Peace: Alberico Gentili and the Early Modern Law of Nations (Brill 2020), and Cultural Heritage in International Economic Law (Brill 2023).

Recent research output

• DE WITTE, Bruno; VADI, Valentina (2015), Introducing culture and international economic law, Contribution to book
• VADI, Valentina; DE WITTE, Bruno (2015), Culture and international economic law, Book
• VADI, Valentina (2014), Cultural heritage in international investment law and arbitration, Book
• VADI, Valentina (2013), Public health in international investment law and arbitration, Book
• VADI, Valentina (2009), Trademark protection, public health and international investment law : strains and paradoxes, Article
• VADI, Valentina (2010), Reconciling environmental health and investor’s rights in international investment law, Contribution to book