Full professor of European Union Law at the University of Genoa, where he teaches also International and European Law of the Sea, he is a partner at SCD Avvocati & Partners.

Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Genoa in 1997, he has obtained a Master’s Degree (LL.M. International Business Law) from the University of London in 1999 and a Master’s Degree (LL.M. International Legal Studies) from Georgetown University of Washington, DC in 2000 as a Fulbright fellow. He has been granted a Ph.D. in International Law from the University of Milan (Statale) in 2004.

He is frequently invited as a speaker at national and international scientific conferences and has published widely in the area of international and European environmental law, European Union institutional law, international and European transport law, law of the sea and private international law.

He was a member of the board of the Italian Flight Safety Agency (ANSV) from 2017 to 2022 and he is currently a member of the Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea (ABLOS) jointly established by the International Hydrographic Organization and the International Association of Geodesy (IAG).