2026. “The EU and China: cooperation and global challenges”, in Winter School on “Law through the Silk Road: Roman Tradition, Language, Economics, January 12
2025. “EU Trade Governance: Assessing Prometheus”, 2025 EU Law Annual Lecture, Institute of European Law, University of Birmingham, November 27
2025. “We are all just prisoners here, of our own device:regulating transnational subsidies between domestic and international law”, Centre of European Law Public Lecture, King’s College London, November 26
2025. LLM guest class in the “Greening trade and business” course (module leader, Isidora Maletic): “The EU ETS-CBAM: a case-study on the external impact of the EU internal market”, November 26, KCL, London
2025. Speaker in the panel on “Reforming Subsidies Disciplines” of the World Trade Forum “Coping with Chaos: Sustaining the Rules-based Trade Order”, European University Institute, Florence, October 10
2025. “Regulating the ‘unsaid’: the legal status of transnational subsidies between domestic and international law”, paper presentation seminars at Università Cattolica, Milan (October 3), CTLS, London (October 30), University of Turin (November 11) and University of Milan (November 13)
2025. Speaker in the panel on “Global Trade at a Crossroads: Tariffs, Investment, and Power in Transition”, SOAS, June 11, London
2025. Speaker in the OECD Global Forum on Trade, “Government support, the level playing field and inclusive opportunities in the global economy”, OECD, April 7, Paris —- view
2025. Speaker in the informal meeting on transparency in subsidies, organized by the EU, Kenya and Japan, WTO, February 6, Geneva —- view
2025. Speaker at Hebdo Meeting, organized by the Polish Presidency to the EU, February 6, Geneva
2024. LLM guest class in the “Greening trade and business” course (module leader, Isidora Maletic): “The EU ETS-CBAM: a case-study on the external impact of the EU internal market”, November 6, KCL, London
2024. Guest class in the “EU in the World: the Law of External Relations” course (module leader, Alberto Miglio): “Herr Schmidt goes to Bejing”, November 5, CTLS, London
2024. Speaker in the CTLS Global Conference 2024 “Constitutionalism in Times of Crisis: Transnational Perspectives on Challenges & Ways Forward”. Topic: “Paradigm Change? The Constitutional implications of the Rise in Unilateralism in International Trade Relations”, May 9, London
2024. “Steenkolenmijnen v High Authority: the first State aid case before the ECJ”, March 21, Naples — view and read paper
2024. Organiser and speaker, “EU Trade Governance: Assessing Prometheus?” high level policy dialogue, January 11-12. Turin — view
2023. Speaker in the “Trade” panel in the conference: “Does the EU always ‘strictly observe’ international law?”, Catholic University, Milan, December 12
2023. “Towards a Common Law of International Trade? Reflections on Recent Preferential Trade Agreements“, CTLS, London, November 23
2023. “Sovvenzioni e reazioni”, “Competizione internazionale e aiuti di Stato: le moderne guerre commerciali”, Università di Trento, PhD Programme Seminars, Octber 5
2023. “EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation”, European Law Schools Annual Conference, King’s College London, September 6
2023. Organiser and speaker, “Eye for an eye”. The modern world of subsidies, counter-subsidies and the reactions to them all”, Italian Society of International Law, online webinar, May 9 — view
2022. “Transparency in Trade Agreements: Subsidies and SOEs”, Law Department, University of Bologna, October 24
2022. “Legal issues and Consequences of a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in the European ETS”, Ecologic Institute, Berlin, October 10
2022. “Rethinking Trade Rules on Subsidies to Enhance Sustainable Development, WTO Public Forum 2022, Panel organized by Trade Experettes, September 29
2022. “Concept Design of Subsidy Rules in PTAs”, World Trade Institute, University of Bern, June 30
2022. “State Aids After Brexit: Much Ado About Nothing”, School of Law, University of Birmingham, June 30
2022. “WTO Reform: Searching for Paradigms”, University of Cambridge, Lauterpacht Centre, June 16
2022. “The Puzzle of SOEs”, University College London, June 15
2022. “The Regulation of Subsidies and State Enterprises in International Trade: Critical Aspects and Prospects for the Future” Law Department, University of Bologna, May 9
2022. Discussant to Miguel Poiares Maduro’s lecture on “Sports and the Rule of Law”, Catholic University of Milan, Faculty of Laws, Institute of International Studies, April 26 — view
2022. Discussant in Yane Svetev’s Experimentalist Competition Law and The Regulation of Markets book presentation, PhD In International and EU Law Bocconi Lab in European Studies, Bocconi University, Milan, February 16
2022. Speaker in the expert meeting on “Border Carbon Adjustment in the EU: CBAM Exports”, European Roundtable on Climate Changeand Sustainable Transition, January 25
2022. Discussant to Ilaria Espa, “Climate Change Policies under WTO Scrutiny”, Faculty of Laws, Institute of International Studies, Catholic University, Milan, January 20
2021. China Forum on Global Trade and Investment Law, Queen Mary University, London, Discussant and speaker on “WTO law reform and China” and“China’s High-Tech Policy and Subsidies”, webinar, January 18
2020. Speaker on the White Paper on Foreign Subsidies of the European Commission in the KCL – George Washington University-jointly organized webinar: “Towards a European Economic Sovereignty? Some reflections on the Commission White Paper on Foreign Subsidies:, webinar, December 1
2020. Speaker with Cristina Herghelegiu: “Appellate Body Report Ukraine – Ammonium Nitrate’”,” WTO case-law project, American Law Institute, European University Institute, Florence, September
2020. 115th GCLC Virtual Lunch Talk: “Thoughts on the Commission’s White Paper on Foreign Subsidies (Part I)”, Global Competition Law Center, College of Europe, Bruges, webinar, July 24
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