Profile

Adjunct Professor of Law at the School of Political Sciences of the University of Florence and a Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Law, and International Studies of the University of Padua. I was formerly Professor of International Economic Law at Lancaster University, United Kingdom (2015-2021), a Reader in International Business Law at the same university (2013-2015), a Michigan Grotius Senior Research Scholar at Michigan University Law School (2019), an Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre for International and Regional Economic Law at New York University (2013-2014), and a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Maastricht University (2011-2013). I also lectured at Hasselt University (Belgium) (2009-2011), the University of Rome III (Italy)(2009-2010), the China EU School of Law (P.R. China)(2009-2011), and Maastricht University (The Netherlands)(2009-2011). I also was a Visiting Professor of law at the European University Institute (2016).

She has published more than eighty articles in various areas of public international law in top journals. She is the co-editor (with Hildegard Schneider) of Art, Cultural Heritage and the Market: Legal and Ethical Issues (Springer: Heidelberg 2014), and (with Bruno De Witte) of Culture and International Economic Law (Routledge: 2015). Valentina Vadi is the author of Public Health in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Routledge: 2012), Cultural Heritage in International Investment law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press: 2014) and Analogies in International Investment Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press: 2016).