Biography
Fabio Costa Morosini is a Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul School of Law, where he directs the Center for Law, Globalization and Development. Currently, he is a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the Department of Law of the European University Institute, in Florence. He is also a research fellow at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil). In addition to his current role, Professor Morosini has taught law at the University of Michigan Law School, at the European Public Law Organization's Academy of International Economic Law and at the United Nation's Regional Courses in International Law. Previously, he was a Global Hauser Research Fellow at New York University School of Law.
Professor Morosini holds a PhD and an LLM from the University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree, with honors, from the University of Paris 1/ Paris' Institute of Political Sciences. Upon completion of his PhD, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the World Trade Organization. He currently serves in the Advisory Board of Texas International Law Journal, the Editorial Boards of the Journal of International Economic Law, and of Law and Geoeconomics, and the Advisory Councils of the Independent International Legal Advocates and of the Indian Journal of International Economic Law. In addition, Professor Morosini serves as Secretary of the Society of International Economic Law.
His recent edited and co-edited books include Reconceptualizing International Investment Law from the Global South (CUP, 2018), Regulação do Comércio e Investimento Estrangeiro (Saraiva, 2017), Direito Internacional: Abordagens Críticas (Almedina, 2020), and Direito das Relações Econômicas Brasil-China (2022). During his time as a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the EUI, Professor Morosini will work on two research projects: 1) “International Economic Law by Other Means: Chinese investments in Upper-middle Income Economies”, which investigates the role of China in transforming the international economic law order, by empirically examining economic interactions between China and upper-middle income economies; and 2) “Textbooks as Markers and Makers of International Law”, which aims at reading textbooks as ambitious agenda-setters in their own right.