Photo Raffaella Nigro

RAFFAELLA NIGRO

Full Professor of International Law, Università Magna Græcia (Catanzaro, Italy)

r.nigro@unicz.it

Raffaella Nigro is Full Professor of International Law at the Department of Law, Economics and Sociology (Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Economia e Sociologia, DIGES) of the University Magna Græcia of Catanzaro. She was Postdoctoral Researcher (Ricercatore) at the Universities of Salerno (2012) and Perugia (2013-2016) and Visiting Researcher/Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (2007, 2018) and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (2008-2009). Her current research interests and publications centre around human rights, functional immunity, international terrorism and international criminal justice. She has authored, among other publications, two monographs: La definizione di terrorismo nel diritto internazionale (Editoriale Scientifica, 2013) and Le immunità giurisdizionali dello Stato e dei suoi organi e l’evoluzione della sovranità nel diritto internazionale (Wolters Kluwer/Cedam, 2018).

emma luce scali

Lecturer in Law, Birmingham City University

emma.scali@bcu.ac.uk

Emma Luce Scali is Lecturer in Law and Co-Director of the LLMs International Law and International Human Rights at the School of Law of Birmingham City University, where she leads the modules on Public International Law and EU Law. Her current research interests and publications centre around human rights, sovereign financing and the global economic order. She has recently published a monograph on Sovereign Debt and Socio-economic Rights Beyond Crisis: The Neoliberalisation of International Law with Cambridge University Press (2022). Dr Scali has extensive research experience also outside academia, having worked with various civil society organisations and the public sector. In 2022/23, she was consultant researcher for the UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights and OHCHR SEARO (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, South-East Asia Regional Office).