Alberto Alemanno

Alberto Alemanno is Associate Professor of Law at HEC Paris where he holds a Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law & Risk Regulation. Before entering academia, he clerked at the Court of Justice of the European Union, worked as Teaching Assistant at the College of Europe in Bruges and qualified as an attorney at law in New York in 2004.

During the last years, Alemanno’s research has been centred on the role of science and expertise within the emerging law of risk regulation in both the EU and the WTO legal orders. In particular, he is interested in the relationship between the regulatory competence of states in furtherance of domestic policies of general interest and concern, such as public health and food safety, and the preservation of a liberal international trade framework. His current academic work addresses the interaction between consumer concerns/information and trade rules. His newest research area is about the broader intellectual debate on the role of public authorities in shaping consumer preferences and lifestyle choices.

He has published widely in the areas of EU law,  international economic law and risk regulation, including the books Trade in Food – Regulatory and Judicial Approaches in the EU and the WTO (Cameron May, 2007) and Governing Disasters – The Challenges of Emergency Risk Regulation (Edward Elgar, 2011). He has taught courses on European Law, WTO law, Risk Regulation in the US and Europe, International Public Health Law, European Affairs and European Legal Remedies,.

He is the founder and editor of the European Journal of Risk Regulation and he is a member of the editorial boards of the Revue du Droit de l’Union européenne, the European Food and Feed Law Review and the Area Editor for Policy of Risk Analysis : an International Journal. He is also the scientific director of the Summer Academy in Global Food Law & Policy. Alemanno has also provided advice to a variety of organizations, such as the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Food Safety Authority and the European Court of Auditors, on various aspects of European Union law, WTO law and food regulation.

Originally from Italy, 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. He the recipient of the 2011 Chauncey Starr Distinguished Award by the Society for Risk Analysis for the most exceptional contributions to the field of risk analysis by a scholar aged 40 or under.

For more information, see http://albertoalemanno.eu/  

Selected publications

Alemanno, Alberto, Out of Sight Out of Mind - Towards a New EU Tobacco Products Directive, Columbia Journal of European Law, Vol. 18, No. 2, Spring 2012. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1991289

Alemanno, Alberto et al., 2012. Better Business Regulation in a Risk Society, Springer.

Alemanno, Alberto, 2011. Governing Disasters – The Challenges of Emergency Risk Regulation, Edward Elgar.

Alemanno, Alberto, 2011. Regulatory Impact Assessment and European Courts: When Ex Ante Evaluation Meets Ex Post Judicial Control, 17 European Public Law 3.

Alemanno, Alberto, 2011. Do You Mind My Smoking? Some Reflections On Plain Packaging Of Cigarettes And Its Compatibility With Trips' Provisions On Trademarks And Public Health, 10 John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law 3, co-authored with E. Bonadio.

Alemanno, Alberto, 2010. How to get out of the regulatory deadlock over GMOs? This is time for regulatory cooperation, in D. Vogel & J. Swinnen (eds), Cooperating in Managing Biosafety and Biodiversity in a global world, EU, US and California, Edward Elgar.

Alemanno, Alberto, 2010. Comparing Regulatory Oversight Bodies Across the Atlantic: The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the US and the Impact Assessment Board in the EU, forthcoming in S. Rose-Ackerman & P. Lindseth (eds), Comparative Administrative Law, Edward Elgar, co-authored with Wiener, Jonathan B.

Alemanno, Alberto, 2010. 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 3.

Alemanno, Alberto, 2010. The European Food Import Safety Regime under a ‘Stress Test’: the Melamine Contamination of the Global Food-Supply Chain, Erasmus Law Review, Fall (2010).

Alemanno, Alberto, 2010. The fabulous destiny of Bisphenol A, 1 European Journal of Risk Regulation 4.

Alemanno, Alberto, 2009. Solving the Problem of Scale - The European approach to import safety and import security concerns, in C. Coglianese, A. Finkel, D. Zaring (eds), Import Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy, University of Pennsylvania Press.

Alemanno, Alberto, 2008. The Shaping of European Risk Regulation by Community Courts, Jean Monnet Working Paper, 18/2008.

Alemanno, Alberto, 2007. Trade in Food - Regulatory and Judicial Approaches in the EU and the WTO, Cameron May, 2007.

Alemanno, Alberto, 2004. 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 2.