Aline Bertolin is a former Postgraduate Research Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL) and currently a Senior Fellow conducting remote research on migration and development, focusing on clinical projects in the United States, Brazil, Lebanon, and India. She serves as a member of the Immigration Advocacy Group (IAG) at the Paulist Center in Boston, Massachusetts. She has been recently an observer at the Grizella Martinez’s Study Group at the Institute of Politics (IOP), and a participant in the Global Empowerment Meeting of 2024 (GEM24) hosted by the Center of International Development (CID) and the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) at Harvard.

During her IIEL postdoctoral fellowship, following her tenure as a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, Dr. Bertolin worked closely and under the supervision of IIEL Professor Katrin Kuhlmann to contribute to the latter’s longtime scholarship on Trade and Development. She assisted Professor Kuhlmann in her research agenda on Law & Development by deepening the understanding of regulatory designs that entice migration, sustainable trade, integrative development, and economic dignity, and designs that reversely answer for economic privileges and the boxing-in of populations, from a Political Sciences’ perspective. Her successful fellowship led to an invitation to join the faculty at the School of Applied Sciences of Unicamp, where she also pursued a research scholar fellowship and advanced her book proposal on “Modern Constitutional Powers and Modern Law.”

Dr. Bertolin holds a Ph.D. in Law and Political Sciences from the Université Panthèon-Sorbonne, co-supervised by Professor Katharina Pistor from Columbia Law School in New York, where Dr. Bertolin was a Visiting Research Scholar; she holds a Master’s in Law degree (IBEL LLM) from Georgetown University. In Georgetown, she debuted her specialism in Law & Development, following in the footsteps of her mentors. Her groundbreaking dissertation investigated strategic intelligence policies and introduced the concept of preventive regulation through a comparative study of the United States and France, examining how regulatory strategies can bridge democratic gaps in economic governance and deter financial crises and antitrust abuses. Her work achievement was recognized with a nomination for the Prix de thèse de La Chancellerie des Universités de Paris in Law and Political Sciences and the award of Le Prix Alban from the European Commission.

Dr. Bertolin has held government positions in Europe and Brazil, serving as a regulator officer at Anatel in Brazil, and a collaborator with the International Department of the French agency Arcep, and the National Regulatory Research Institute of the NARUC in Washington, DC. She has been a prolific in-the-field research scholar and a collaborator in nonprofits, which inspired her to co-found the Na’iman Safe Haven Initiative in 2019 while working with Catholic nonprofits in Boston and Cambridge and engaged in independent studies at the Warren, Ash, Belfast, and Weatherhead centers at Harvard Kennedy School. Her research contributions extend to renowned institutions such as the Université Saint Joseph in Lebanon, the University of Damascus in Syria, and the University of São Paulo in Brazil, where she received a second Ph.D. in Government Law. Her teaching experience includes Law and Development, Legal Scientific Methodology and Economic, Administrative, Tax, and Constitutional Law.