Professore presso la West Virginia University (USA) e presso la Beijing Foreign Studies University – BFSU (Beijing, China); Fondatore, Presidente e Direttore di gLAWcal - Global Law Inititiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom)
Paolo Davide Farah è Professore associato presso la West Virginia University, John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics, Dipartimento di Pubblica Amministrazione. È Professore ordinario presso la Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), facoltà di giurisprudenza, Pechino, Cina. È fondatore, presidente e direttore di gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, Regno Unito (www.glawcal.org.uk). Conduce attività di ricerca in diritto Internazionale, cambiamenti climatici, commercio internazionale, affari e diritti umani, giustizia sociale, sviluppo sostenibile, energia e diritto e politica ambientale internazionale, politica pubblica e pubblica amministrazione. Ha tenuto varie lezioni in diverse istituzioni di diritto internazionale pubblico, diritto economico internazionale e diritto dell'OMC, diritto europeo, diritto comparato e diritto cinese in Italia, nel Regno Unito (come senior Lecturer), negli Stati Uniti e in Cina (come Visiting Professor e ora Internationally Renowned Professor/Distinguished Professor of Law).
È curatore di due collane editoriali per Routledge Publishing (NewYork / Londra): Transnational Law and Governance e Global Law and Sustainable Development.
È Senior Research Fellow presso l'Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL), Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC, USA ed è stato anche membro USA ed è anche stato borsista “Marie Curie Fellow” del progamma Marie Curie della Commissione europea. È stato Visiting Scholar (2011–2012) presso la Harvard Law School, East Asian Legal Studies Program. Come direttore scientifico, dal 2006, ha coordinato il Summer Law Institute in China - Executive Education Training Program (www.summerlawinstitute.com) tenuto in Cina.
È stato consulente internazionale e consulente legale per progetti attuati per il Programma di sviluppo delle Nazioni Unite (UNDP), per il Ministero dello sviluppo economico e del commercio italiano e per l'OCSE. In precedenza ha lavorato presso la Divisione Affari Legali dell'Organizzazione mondiale del commercio a Ginevra ed è stato avvocato associato dello studio legale Baker & McKenzie, Milano, Italia.
È membro del consiglio di amministrazione della Società europea di diritto internazionale (ESIL) e presidente del comitato ESIL sul diritto internazionale dell'ambiente.
È inoltre coordinatore del comitato per il diritto ambientale internazionale dell'American Society of International Law (ASIL) e del comitato per il diritto internazionale e della tecnologia dell'ASIL.
Nel 2014, il professor Farah è stato nominato membro dell'International Law Association - Comitati ILA per lo sviluppo sostenibile e la Green Economy in International Trade Law e Comitato ILA per il ruolo del diritto internazionale nella gestione sostenibile delle risorse naturali per lo sviluppo. Parla, legge e scrive in italiano (madrelingua), inglese (fluente), francese (fluente) e cinese (discreto).
Ulteriori informazioni disponibili presso i seguenti blog, siti Web e social network all'indirizzo:
- Pagina dell'autore di SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=629289
- Academia: https://wvu.academia.edu/PaoloDavideFarah
- Research-Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paolo_Farah?ev=hdr_xprf
- Blog personale: http://paolofarah.wordpress.com
- Pubblicazioni: http://paolofarah.wordpress.com/list-of-publications
- Twitter: @PaoloDFarah
- gLAWcal - Iniziative di diritto globale per lo sviluppo sostenibile: http://www.glawcal.org.uk
- Twitter: @gLAWcal
Paolo Davide Farah is an Associate Professor (with tenure) at West Virginia University, John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics, Department of Public Administration.
He is an “Internationally Renowned Professor/Distinguished Professor of Law” (Full Professor level) at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), Law School, Beijing, China. He is Founder, President and Director of gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, United Kingdom (www.glawcal.org.uk).
He is teaching and researching in international law, climate change, international trade, business and human rights, social justice, sustainable development, energy and international environmental law and policy, public policy and public administration. He has variously taught classes in different institutions on public international law, international economic law and WTO law, European Law, Comparative law, and Chinese law in Italy, in the UK (as Senior Lecturer), USA and China (as Visiting Professor).
He is Editor-in-Chief for two Book series for Routledge Publishing (NewYork/London): Transnational Law and Governance and Global Law and Sustainable Development.
He is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL), Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC, USA and was also a EU Commission Marie Curie Fellow. He was a Visiting Scholar (2011–2012) at Harvard Law School, East Asian Legal Studies Program. As Scientific Director, since 2006, he has been coordinating the Summer Law Institute in China – Executive Education Training Program (www.summerlawinstitute.com) held in China.
He was an International Consultant and Legal Advisor for projects implemented for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), for the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and Commerce and for the OECD.
He has previously worked at the Legal Affairs Division of the World Trade Organization in Geneva and was an Associate Lawyer of Baker & McKenzie Law Firm, Milan, Italy. He is a Board Member of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) and the Chair of the ESIL Interest Group on International Environmental Law. He is also the Chair of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Interest Group on International Environmental Law and the Vice-Chair of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Interest Group on International Law and Technology.
Since 2014, Professor Farah has been an Appointed Member of the International Law Association – ILA Committees on Sustainable Development and the Green Economy in International Trade Law and ILA Committee on Role of International Law in Sustainable Natural Resource Management for Development. He speaks, reads and writes: Italian (native), English (fluent), French (fluent) and Chinese (fair).
For further information, please visit the following blogs, websites and social networks at:
- SSRN Author’s Page: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=629289
- Academia: https://wvu.academia.edu/PaoloDavideFarah
- Research-Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paolo_Farah?ev=hdr_xprf
- Personal Blog: http://paolofarah.wordpress.com
- Publications: http://paolofarah.wordpress.com/list-of-publications
- Twitter: @PaoloDFarah
- gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development: http://www.glawcal.org.uk
- Twitter: @gLAWcal