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Update 7 – Participation in the Conference on Investment Protection and Domestic Courts
🎓 Excellent outcomes from today’s inspiring conference at the University of Vienna 🇦🇹 on “Investment Protection and Domestic Courts,” where I contributed a paper entitled “The National Investor Has No Say, While the International One Does: Divergent Treatment of Claimants before Domestic Courts and Investment Tribunals,” drawing on the findings of my RULIERD project.
The event offered a valuable platform for exchanging ideas, sharing insights, and engaging in meaningful discussions with researchers and professionals from diverse backgrounds.
My sincere thanks to the organizers, colleagues, and participants for fostering such an intellectually stimulating environment.
It was a privilege to contribute and to learn in such a distinguished academic setting.
Update 6 – Presentation of the project to the department of International Law of UNIVIE
🎉 Grateful and proud moment!
Today I presented my research project, RULIERD, and was thrilled by the positive feedback it received. This marks an important milestone after months of independent work, learning, and persistence.
I’m deeply thankful to everyone who offered guidance and encouragement throughout this journey.
Presenting RULIERD reinforced my passion for research and innovation — and I’m excited to keep developing and expanding this work! 🚀
Update 5 – Starting of the communication activities
The communication activities of the MSCA project RULIERD are starting.
I am truly grateful to the organizers of the Conference on “Investment Protection and Domestic Courts” for selecting my contribution, “The National Investor has no say, while the International One does: The Divergent Treatments of Claimants before Domestic Courts and Investment Tribunals,” for presentation in the first panel.
I look forward to sharing my work and engaging in insightful discussions with colleagues and experts attending the conference.
More broadly, I find my time within the Viennese academic community to be extremely rewarding, fostering a continuous and fruitful exchange of ideas.
Update 4 – Completion of the ‘Learning from Evidence’ course at the Gerzensee Study Center
Dear Reader,
In May, I was honored to receive the news that I had been selected as one of the privileged scholars to participate in the “Law and Economics Courses for Doctoral Students and Faculty Members 2025.” Specifically, I was invited to attend the course Learning from Evidence, delivered by Professor Julian Nyarko from Stanford Law School, held at the Study Center of Gerzensee, Swiss National Bank, from June 30 to July 4, 2025.
Participation in this course offered me an invaluable opportunity to deepen my understanding of empirical research methods, which will be instrumental for the implementation of my project examining the use of Law and Economics tools to evaluate whether reverse discrimination poses a threat to the principle of fair competition within the European market.
A further update will be provided at the end of September 2025.
Update 3 – Conference in Florence
Dear Reader,
I am pleased to announce that my paper entitled “A Lesson from Multilevel Negotiations Concerning Geopolitically Sensitive Investment Projects: How Creativity and a Lack of Formalism Led to Parties’ Satisfaction in the Case of East Coast Rail Link” was selected for presentation at the ILA Conference “Shaping Appropriate ADR in International Law”, which took place on Monday, 7 April 2025, at Villa Ruspoli in Florence.
While the paper does not directly address the issue of reverse discrimination, its analysis of the geostrategic dimensions of investment disputes offers complementary perspectives that enrich the broader research framework of the project.
The discussions and networking opportunities that followed the conference also proved valuable in disseminating knowledge about the project and its ongoing development within the academic community.
Further updates on the project will be provided at the end of July 2025.
Update 2 – Studying Investment and EU law
Dear Reader,
Here there is a second update about the project.
I attended the conference “The Winds of Change: ICSID in the geopolitical arena” hosted by the University of Vienna on Wednesday, November 27, 2024, where I had the opportunity to gather interesting insights about the current challenges of international investment law.
I gave my last lesson of my course in International Economic Law and I collected very positive feedback from the students.
Now I am entirely focused on researching for the project, mainly having regard to the possible collision between the phenomenon of reverse discrimination and the principle of equality as enshrined in EU law.
The next update will come at the end of April 2025.
Update 1 – The project RULIERD Started
Dear Reader,
Welcome to the Journal of the Action.
In these first four months many activities have been done to pursue the effectively
ambitions of the project.
The first important achievement is certainly the creation of this website where the
results of the project will be publicized.
Between the 12 and the 13 of September 2024 I attended the 41 st Annual Conference of
the European Association of Law & Economics hosted by the University of Turin, which
was a good opportunity to draw inspiration from the presentations given by some
among the most reputed scholars in the field of law and economics.
During the month of October, I also gave my first two lessons in the field of international
economic law, which is an excellent occasion to deepening my understanding of this
interesting subject through, both, the preparation of the lecture and the fruitful dialogue
with the students.
I am keeping on reviewing the literature available on the issue of reverse discrimination,
both from juridic and economic points of view to extract suitable material for the
preparation of the deliverables planned in RULIERD.
Next update will come at the end of January 2025.