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Carlo de Stefano is Assistant Professor of International law at the Department of Law of Roma Tre University. He has earned a Ph.D. in International Law and Economics at the Bocconi University of Milan (2016). During his doctoral studies he has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (2015), junior visiting fellow at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies (IHEID) of Geneva (2015) and visiting researcher at Yale Law School (2014). He has been lecturer and post-doc researcher in international law at Roma Tre University (since 2016) and post-doc visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law of Heidelberg (2017), at the Department of Law of the Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth of Milan (2018), at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law of the University of Vienna (2022) and at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) of the University of Cambridge (Brandon Research Fellowship 2023). In 2024, Carlo received a scholarship by the Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel Stiftung and by the International Council Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) for pursuing his researches on international arbitration. In 2025, he was awarded the MacCormick Fellowship at Edinburgh School of Law. He has also been lecturer and research tutor for the Master of Laws in International Trade Law of the International Training Centre (ITC) of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Turin. Carlo is involved in the international arbitration practice, as counsel as well as administrative secretary of arbitral tribunals, and is consultant for States, international organizations, private companies and NGOs. His book "Attribution in International Law and Arbitration" (2020) was published by Oxford University Press.