Valentina Volpe is an Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) of Public International Law, tenure and Co-Director of the Advanced LL.M. in International and European organizations /Human Rights, Security & Development (with Dean Ioannis Panoussis), Faculty of Law, Université Catholique de Lille, France.
A Senior Research Affiliate, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL), Heidelberg, Germany.
A Research Affiliate, Centre de Recherche sur les Droits de l’Homme et le Droit Humanitaire (CRDH), Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France.
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.
Main Fields of Research: Global and international public law; comparative constitutional law; democracy promotion; human rights; non-state actors; international organizations (with a particular focus on CoE and EU) and European human rights law.
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, Springer/MPIL series, Heidelberg-Berlin, open-access, 2021, (pp. 426) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-62304-6 5
- V. Volpe ‘With a Little Help from My Friends’: Facing Rule of Law and Human Rights Backlashes Within the EU, Villa Vigoni Publisher, forthcoming 2022.
- V. Volpe The Venice Commission’s Brave New World: Triangulating Constitutional Assistance, Global Membership and European Standards, forthcoming 2022.
- V. Volpe Venice Commission, entry in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, forthcoming 2022.
- A. Peters – V. Volpe Reconciling State Immunity with Remedies for War Victims in a Legal Pluriverse, in V. Volpe – A. Peters – S. Battini (eds.), Remedies against Immunity? Reconciling International and Domestic Law after the Italian Constitutional Court’s Sentenza 238/2014, Springer/MPIL series, open-access, 2021, pp. 3 – 35.
- S. Ragone – V. Volpe Le droit à une vie familiale « gay » en Europe. Le rôle de la CEDH et des cours nationales dans la reconnaissance des unions de même sexe, in B. Schramm (ed.), Queer(s) et Droit International, Études du Réseau OLYMPE, Droit comparé et européen, Vol. 36, Société de législation comparée, Paris, 2021, pp. 375 – 426.
- V. Volpe The Importance of Being Earnest. The United Nations and Democracy-Promotion, in F. Fiorentini – M. Infantino (eds.), Mentoring Comparative Lawyers: Methods, Times, and Places. Liber Discipolorum Mauro Bussani, Springer, Heidelberg-Berlin, 2019, pp. 219 – 235.
- G. Rugge – V. Volpe The Italian Court Through the Looking-Glass - A Dialogue between Constitutional Justices with Sabino Cassese and Daria de Pretis, “Heidelberg Journal of International Law”, Vol. 77, No. 3, 2017, pp. 561 - 577.