Alberto Alemanno

Alberto Alemanno
Alberto Alemanno speaking about Europe (2011)
Born	30 April 1975
Nationality	Italy, Spain
Alma mater	Università degli Studi di Torino Bocconi University Harvard Law School World Economic Forum
Known for	Founder, eLabEurope; Founder, EU Public Interest Clinic; Founder, The Good Lobby; Founder, European Journal of Risk Regulation; Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law, HEC Paris Chair of the Law Department, HEC Paris
Spouse(s)	Mariana Calvo de Irujo (m. 2007)
Children	3
Awards	Chauncey Starr Award; Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum; Young Global Leader, 40 under 40; Responsible Leader, BMW Foundation Young Leader of the Council for the United States and Italy
Scientific career
Fields	Law, government, public policy, civic entrepreneurship
Institutions	New York University Georgetown University HEC Paris College of Europe The University of Tokyo European Court of Justice World Economic Forum
Influenced	Cass Sunstein, Pierre Rosanvallon, Ralph Nader, Giambattista Vico
Website	www.albertoalemanno.eu

Alberto Alemanno is an academic, author and politic activist. He is internationally known for his scholarly and public interest work on the democratization of the European Union, the use of law to advance the public interest, in areas such as risk regulation, public health, consumer rights and food policy as well as legal education reform. He has developed the theory of citizen lobbying to rethink representative democracy in the national and transnational space. Alberto Alemanno is Jean Monnet Professor in EU Law at HEC Paris since 2009,^[1] and also Global Clinical Professor of Law at New York University School of Law^[2] and permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, School of Public Policy and at the College of Europe.

Alberto Alemanno was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2015,^[3] European Young Leaders by the "40 under 40" run by Friends of Europe, and Responsible Leader by the BMW Foundation.

Education

Originally from Italy, Alberto Alemanno earned a Laurea in Giurisprudenza cum laude from the Università degli Studi di Torino, LLM degrees from Harvard Law School and the College of Europe, and a PhD in International Law & Economics from Bocconi University. After working as a lawyer in Paris, he became a qualified attorney in New York in 2004 and then served as a law clerk for Judge Allan Rosas and Judge Alexander Arabadjiev at the Court of Justice of the European Union and for Enzo Moavero Milanesi at the General Court of the European Union.

Academic career

Alberto Alemanno began his academic career at the College of Europe in Bruges in 2001, when he was selected as a teaching assistant before embarking in the following year on his PhD at Bocconi University. He worked under the supervision of Professor Giorgio Sacerdoti, former Jean Monnet Professor of Law and Chairman of the WTO Appellate Body, and Peter Barton Hutt, from Harvard Law School. After gaining several years of both legal and judicial practice and teaching, he entered academia full-time in 2009 when he was recruited by HEC Paris as Associate Professor of Law.

In 2011 he became Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law at HEC Paris, where he teaches - at graduate and postgraduate students. He was Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center between 2011 and 2013,^[4] where he taught Global Risk Regulation and became a scholar at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health.^[5] Invited Professor at the University of Tokyo, School of Public Policy, St. Gallen University, the College of Europe, where he developed the EU Participatory Democracy Workshop.

In 2013 he became Global Clinical Professor of Law at New York University School of Law where he established and serves as faculty director the HEC-NYU EU Public Interest Clinic, a program to train new public interest lawyers and civic advocates.^[6]

Alberto Alemanno is Coursera instructor where he teaches "Understanding Europe – Why it Matters and What it Can Offer you", a MOOC that taught to more than 200,000 participants how to engage with the EU.^[7]

Thanks to his commitment to bridge the gap between academic research and policy action, he regularly provides advice to a variety of NGOs, such as Transparency International, Wikimedia, and BEUC, as well as governments across the world, and international organizations, such as the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) on various aspects of European Union law, international regulatory co-operation, international trade and global health law.

He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Risk Regulation, the leading journal at the interface of global law, science and public policy, published by Cambridge University Press. He also acts as a regular reviewer for journals and university publishers, such as OUP and CUP monographs series.

Research

Alberto Alemanno’s research has been centered on how the law – in particular EU law – may be used to improve people’s lives. His scholarships, which paved the way to the creation of the field of risk regulation, shows that not only doctors and medicines save lives, but law may too.

He has written extensively about the role of - and need for – evidence and public input in domestic and supranational policymaking. He has explored, in particular, the use of scientific evidence and behavioural research - as drawn from psychology, cognitive sciences and economics - in regulatory decision-making and in the judicial review of science-based measures by courts. He contributed to the emerging field of EU health law and policy by focusing, in particular, on the role that law may play in countering the scourge of non-communicable diseases, largely preventable diseases caused by smoking, harmful consumption of alcohol, unhealthy diets and lack of physical exercise.^[8][9]

He has developed the theory of citizen lobbying to rethink representative democracy in the national and transnational space. His most recent work has focused on democratizing decision-making through the opening up of new avenues of citizen participation within the public policy space and beyond.^[10]

He has published in leading international law journals, such as the International Journal of Constitutional Law, the Harvard International Law Journal and the Common Market Law Review, and authored books with university publishers and edited volumes.

Public engagement

Alberto Alemanno has been involved in dozens of campaigns and strategic legal actions in the EU transnational space.

In Spring 2018, after publishing an influential Op-Ed in Le Monde^[11] and Politico,^[12] he challenged the EU approach to counter fake news by lodging a complaint before the EU Ombudsman arguing that the EU Disinformation Review violates the freedom of expression and right of defense.^[13][14][15]

In 2018, he successfully lodged one of the complaints to the European Ombudsman about José Manuel Barroso’s business activities with Goldman Sachs.^[16]

With Frank Biancheri, he has been advocating for the creation of transnational lists^[17] since the early 2000. In 2018, on the eve of the European Parliament vote, he was one of the initiators of the campaign Real Representation as Europeans with WeMove.eu^[18]

Alberto Alemanno campaigned and drafted the first EU directive aimed at protecting whistleblowers in the European Union. His text was used by the EU Commission in 2018 when putting foreword its proposal.^[19][20]

He successfully campaigned for plain tobacco packaging of products by training dozens of ministerial officers and health advocates in France, UK, Ireland and Norway and providing legal assistance to the WHO.

He also lodged a collective complaint on behalf of the European Youth Forum to challenge the institutionalization of unpaid internships in Belgium before the Council of Europe.^[21]

Alberto Alemanno was involved in the registration of the first European Citizen Initiative aimed at eliminating the international roaming charges in 2013 (One Single Tariff) and provided advice to several others, including the StopGlyphosate campaign.

In 2016, he prepared a report for WWF advocating reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.

In 2015, Alberto Alemanno and his students published a report on "freedom of panorama" in Europe for the European Consumer Organisation, advocating prohibition of airline "no-show" clauses.He also contributed to make the appointment of the judges of the European Court of Justice more transparent.^[22][23]

He sits on the board of several civil society organisations, such as European Alternatives, Access Info Europe, Riparte il Futuro, Diritto di Sapere, as well as the citizens’ pan-EU campaigning movements We Move and Vox-Europe.

Public and political life

Alberto Alemanno is a regular contributor to Le Monde, Bloomberg,^[24] Politico Europe,^[25] Forbes, and Il Sole 24 Ore, and his scholarly and public interest work has been featured in The Economist, The New York Times, the Financial Times^[26] as well Science and Nature. He contributes to scholarly blogs, including Verfassungsblog, the Italian legal blog Diritti Comparati, which he co-founded.

Alberto was among the initiators of Newropeans, the first European transnational movement, with Franck Biancheri, in 2009. He currently serves as advisor to Volt, the pan-European, progressive movement that stands for a new and inclusive way of doing politics in Europe. In the Italian legislative elections of 2018, Alberto Alemanno was the lead candidate for the Senate for the Più Europa party led by Emma Bonino and was the most voted candidate outside of Italy.

Civic Ventures

Due to his commitment to bridge the gap between academic research and policy in Europe, he initiated several civic ventures, including :

• EU Public Interest Clinic, together with HEC Paris and NYU School of Law. The Clinic brings together students from NYU Law School and HEC Paris to help non-government organizations (NGOs)
• eLabEurope, which promotes civic engagement and participation in Europe through a mixture of academic research, advocacy and training.
• The Good Lobby^[27] is a civic start up committed to equalizing political power and influence. It fosters bottom-up civic capacity via new, cross-societal forms of collaboration, such as skill-sharing, among citizens, not-for-profits, progressive companies, law firms and philanthropies. It emerges from the expanding crises in citizenship and civil society and – as such – is also a social movement. By mobilizing and empowering citizens (citizen lobbyists) as well as a wider range of constituencies through targeted engagement in the policy process, it wants to foster assertive citizenship so as to create more accountable, cohesive and happier societies. The Good Lobby is also a social movement, which aims to turn citizens into citizen lobbyists
• Summer Academy in Global Law & Policy, which has more than 400 international alumni since its inception in 2009 and was transformed into The Lobbying Summer Academy in 2018.
• TEN – The European Nudge Network in 2014. Its goal is to offer insight into the behaviour of organizations throughout Europe.

Books

• Reinventing Legal Education (Cambridge University Press, 2018) ( with L. Khadar)
• Lobbying for Change: Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society (London: Iconbooks), 2017.
• The New Intellectual Property of Health – Beyond Plain Packaging (Edward Elgar, 2016) (ed. with E. Bonadio)
• Nudge and the Law – A European Perspective (Oxford Hart Publishing, 2015) – (ed. with A-L. Sibony)
• Regulating Lifestyle Risks – Europe, Alcohol, Tobacco and Unhealthy Diets – (Cambridge University Press, 2014), ed. with A. Garde
• Routledge Handbook of Risk Studies (Routledge, 2015) (ed. with Adam Burgess and Jens Zinn)
• Better Business Regulation in a Risk Society (Springer, 2013) – (ed. with F. den Butter, A. Nijsen and J. Torriti)
• Foundations of EU Food Law & Policy – Ten Years of European Food Safety Authority – (Ashgate, 2013) (ed. with S. Gabbi)
• Governing Disasters – The Challenges of Emergency Risk Regulation – (ed. Edward Elgar, 2011)
• Trade in Food – Regulatory and Judicial Approaches in the EU and the WTO – (Cameron May, London 2nd ed., 2007)

Articles

• Thinking Justice Outside of the Docket: A Critical Assesment of the Reform of the EU Judicial System 54 Common Market Law Review (2017) (with Laurent Pech)
• "Towards Effective Regulatory Cooperation under TTIP: A Comparative Overview of the EU and US Legislative and Regulatory Systems," Columbia Journal of European Law (2016)
• "The Future of International Regulatory Cooperation: TTIP as a Step Toward a Global Regulatory Laboratory," Law and Contemporary Problems (2016) (with Jonathan Wiener)
• "The Regulatory Cooperation Chapter of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Institutional Structures and Democratic Consequences," 26 Journal of International Economic Law (2015)
• '‘Openness at the Court of Justice of the EU – Toppling a Taboo,'‘ 51 Common Market Law Review" 1 (2014) (with O. Stefan)
• '‘Unpacking the Principle of Openness in EU Law – Transparency, Participation and Democracy ,'‘ European Law Review 1 (2014)
• '‘Nudging Legally – On the Checks and Balances of Behavioral Regulation,'‘ 12 International Journal of Constitutional Law (2013)(with A. Spina)
• '‘The Emergence of an EU Lifestyle Policy – The Case of Alcohol, Tobacco and Unhealthy Diets ,'‘ 50 Common Market Law Review 6 (2013) (with A. Garde)
• '‘Impact assessment of EU non-legislative rule-making: the missing link in new comitology,’‘ 19 European Law Journal (2013) (with A. Meuwese)
• ‘‘Out of Sight Out of Mind – Towards a New Tobacco Products Directive,’‘ 18 Columbia Journal of European Law (2012)
• ‘‘Regulatory Impact Assessment and European Courts: When Ex Ante Evaluation Meets Ex Post Judicial Control,’‘ 17(3) European Public Law (2011)
• ‘‘Gowan Comércio Internacional e Serviços Lda v. Ministero della Salute,’‘ 48 Common Market Law Review 5 (2011)
• ‘‘Do You Mind My Smoking? Some Reflections On Plain Packaging Of Cigarettes And Its Compatibility With TRIPS' Provisions On Trademarks And Public Health,’‘ John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law (2011) (with E. Bonadio)
• ‘‘Opinion 1/2008: Community Competence to conclude with certain Members of the WTO agreements modifying the Schedules of Specific Commitments of the Community and its member states under the GATS’‘, 104 American Journal of International Law (2011)
• ‘‘The Better Regulation Initiative at the Judicial Gate: A Trojan Horse within the Commission’s Walls or the Way Forward? ,’‘ 15 European Law Journal, issue 5 (2009)
• ‘‘The shaping of risk regulation by Community Courts,’‘ Jean Monnet Working Paper, 18, 2008 (2008)
• ‘‘The European Food Safety Authority at Five,’‘ European Food and Feed Law Review (2008)
• ‘‘Le principe de la reconnaissance mutuelle au delà du marché intérieur. Phénomène d'exportation normative ou stratégie de ,’‘ Revue du droit de l'Union européenne", 2/2006 (2006)
• ‘‘Judicial Enforcement of the WTO Hormones ruling within the European Community: Toward an EC Liability for the non-implementation of WTO Dispute Settlement Decisions,’‘ 45 ”, Harvard International Law Journal (2004)
• ‘‘À la recherche d’un juste équilibre entre libertés fondamentales et droits fondamentaux dans le marché intérieur – Quelques réflexions à propos des arrêts Schmidberger et Omega,’‘ Revue du droit de l'Union européenne, 4/04 (2004)
• ‘‘Le principe de précaution en droit communautaire: stratégie de gestion des risques ou risque d’atteinte au marché intérieur?,’‘ Revue du droit de l'Union européenne, 4/2001 (2001)

See also

• Choice architecture
• Legal Clinic
• Public interest

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