Valentina Volpe is Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) of Public International Law and EU Law at the Lille Catholic University and Senior Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She is currently an Associate Lecturer at Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome and at the UN-mandate University for Peace (UPEACE) in San José, Costa Rica.
Her research interests cover the fields of global, European and international public law, encompassing disciplines such as global governance, democracy promotion, human rights, comparative public law, and European law.
She holds a Ph.D. summa cum laude in Law and Legal Theory from the Italian Institute of Human Sciences (SUM) of Naples (today Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa) and is a former Visiting Researcher at Yale Law School. During her career, she has had the opportunity to study in Italy, France and in the US and to work as project manager in the NGO sector. She has been a Visiting Professor at the CUPL of Beijing and at the University of Mannheim, Germany.
Publications
- V. Volpe – A. Peters – S. Battini (eds.), Remedies against Immunity? Reconciling international and domestic law after the Italian Constitutional Court’s Sentenza 238/2014, forthcoming 2018.
- V. Volpe, From Human Rights to the Rule of Law. The ECtHR and the Independence of the Judiciary, in “Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law”, forthcoming 2017.
- V. Volpe, Commissione di Venezia, entry in Digesto delle discipline giuspubblicistiche, UTET, forthcoming 2017.
- V. Volpe – G. Rugge, The Court Through the Looking-Glass - A Dialogue between Constitutional Justices. An Interview with Sabino Cassese and Daria de Pretis, in “Heidelberg Journal of International Law”, Vol. 3, 2017.
- V. Volpe, Realizing European Identity. The Role of the Enlargement Process, in “Why Europe? German-Italian Reflections on a Common Topic”, I. Amodeo – C. Liermann - E. Pichler – M. Scotto (eds.), Impulse - Villa Vigoni im Gespräch, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, Vol. 11, 2017, pp. 73 – 81. 4
- A. Peters – V. Volpe, In search for conciliation, Introduction to the virtual conference Remedies against Immunity?, VerfassungsBlog, 2017/5/11, http://verfassungsblog.de/introduction-in-search-forconciliation/, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20170511-121937 .
- V. Volpe, Drafting Counter-majoritarian Democracy. The Venice Commission’s Constitutional Assistance, in “Heidelberg Journal of International Law”, Vol. 76, No. 4, 2016, pp. 811 – 843.
- V. Volpe – S. Ragone, An Emerging Right to a “Gay” Family Life? The Case Oliari v. Italy in a Comparative Perspective, in “German Law Journal”, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2016, pp. 451 – 486.
- V. Volpe – G. Rugge, La Corte oltre lo Specchio: un Dialogo tra Giudici Costituzionali, con Sabino Cassese e Daria de Pretis, in MPIL Research Paper Series, No. 6, 2016.
- V. Volpe, La Corte Europea dei Diritti dell’Uomo e l’Indipendenza del Potere Giudiziario, in “Giornale di Diritto Amministrativo”, No. 1, 2015, pp. 43–51.
- V. Volpe, Italia, in M. Savino (ed.), Oltre lo Ius Soli: la Cittadinanza Italiana in Prospettiva Comparata, IRPA, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2014, pp. 35-65.
- V. Volpe, The EU’s Enlargement Policy and the Promotion of Democracy. The Case of Turkey, in Global Administrative Law: The Casebook, S. Cassese - B. Carotti - L. Casini - E. Cavalieri - E. MacDonald, with the collaboration of M. Macchia - M. Savino (eds.), Institute for Research on Public Administration (IRPA) - Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ), Rome - New York, 2012, pp. 22-32.
- V. Volpe, Guaranteeing Electoral Democratic Standards. The Venice Commission and the “Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters”, in Global Administrative Law: The Casebook, S. Cassese - B. Carotti - L. Casini - E. Cavalieri - E. MacDonald, with the collaboration of M. Macchia - M. Savino (eds.). Institute for Research on Public Administration (IRPA) - Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ), Rome - New York, 2012, pp. 57-67.
- V. Volpe, Does Civil Society Promote Democracy? The Arab Spring and the EU’s “New Response to a Changing Neighborhood”, in Global Administrative Law: The Casebook, S. Cassese - B. Carotti - L. Casini - E. Cavalieri - E. MacDonald, with the collaboration of M. Macchia - M. Savino (eds.). Institute for Research on Public Administration (IRPA) - Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ), Rome - New York, 2012, pp. 149-157.
- V. Volpe, Stanchi di Essere Vento: la Comunità Sinta a Trieste, in R. Scarciglia (ed.), Trieste multiculturale. Comunità e linguaggi di integrazione, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2011, pp. 109-124.
- V. Volpe, Editorial coordination, Manuale di Diritto Costituzionale e Pubblico, Authors: L. Pegoraro - A. Reposo - A. Rinella - R. Scarciglia - M. Volpi, Third edition, G. Giappichelli, 2009, pp. XXIV – 496