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FERNANDA GIORGIA NICOLA
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Harvard Law School
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Cambridge, MA 02138
Office: 617-***-****
EDUCATION
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge (Massachusetts) S.J. D. Candidate, expected June 2006
Research Comparative Local Government Law (Professor Gerald E. Frug, HLS); Private Law
Fields: Theory (Professor Duncan Kennedy, HLS); Tort Law & Behavioralism (Professor
Jon Hanson, HLS) and European Law (Professor Daniela Caruso, BU)
Fellowship: EC Research Grant, Oxford, St. Anne s College, June-August 2003
Fellowships: Graduate Program Advisor (2002-3), Visiting Researchers Colloquium Coordinator
(2003-4), Teaching Fellow of European Law, HLS (2004-5)
HEAL Chair: President of the Harvard European Law Association (HELA) 2003-2005
Prizes: Mancini Prize 2004, for best paper on European Law entitled Asymmetry,
Distribution and the Harmonization of European Private Law.
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge (Massachusetts)
LL.M. Degree, June 2002
TRENTO UNIVERSITY, Trento Law School (Italy), P.h.D. degree expected 2006
Fellowship: 3 years fellowship award as a P.h.D. Candidate in Comparative Private Law
Supervisor: Professor Michele Graziadei, Chair of Comparative Law
UNIVERSITY OF TURIN, Italy, Laurea (Law degree), December 2000
Activities: Rene Cassin Moot Court Competition, European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg,
(France), 1997 plaideuse and 1998-2000 organizer
Robert Schuman Certificate in EU Law, sponsored by European Commission
Honors: Cumulative Grade 107/110
Thesis: The Place and Performance of Monetary Obligations under the Brussels Convention,
Supervisor: Professor Michele Graziadei, Chair of Comparative Law
ISTUTUTO UNIVERSITARIO DI STUDI EUROPEI (IUSE), I.L.O. Training Center, 1997
Activities: Post Graduate Degree Certificate In International Trade Law
UNIVERSITY OF TURIN, Italy, Laurea (B.A. in Political Sciences), December 1996
Honors: Cumulative Grade 107/110
Thesis: The Russian Federation entering the Council of Europe: A Challenge for Human
Rights. Supervisor: Professor U. Morelli, Chair of History of European Integration
INSTITUT D ETUDES POLITIQUES, Erasmus Scholarship, Strasbourg (France)
Activities : Certificat d Etudes Politiques in International Relations (C.E.P.)
VITTORIA HIGH SCHOOL, Linguistic Degree, Grade 52/60, Turin, 1992
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HAMILTON GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL, New Zealand, A.F.S. Scholarship, 1990-9
COURSES
EUROPEAN LAW READING GROUP 2003-5, reading Group organized with Anna di
Robilant and sponsored by the European Law Research Center at Harvard Law School.
ACADEMY OF EUROPEAN LAW, European University Institute of Florence (E.U.I.),
1996, EC law and European Human Rights, courses organized by Professor J.H. Wailer and
Professor H. Schermers.
UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE OF MADRID, Spain, summer scholarship, 1997, course
on Enterprises And Global Markets.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES, U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, 1991, courses
on America Journalism and English Language.
UNIVERSIDAD MENENDEZ Y PELAYO, Santander, Spain, summer scholarship, 1989,
courses on Spanish language and civilization.
CONFERENCES
Comparative Visions Of Global Public Order, March 5-6, 2005, Harvard Law School,
hosted by the Harvard International Law Journal, paper on Rethinking the role of legal
scholarship in the Harmonization of European Private Law (speaker)
New World Legal Orders Conference: New Approaches Meet New Worlds of law, April 23-
4, 2004 Toronto, Canada, paper on Multilevel Governance Alliances in European Contract
law (speaker)
Rethinking Ideology & Strategy: Progressive Lawyering, Globalization and Markets,
November 6-8, 2003, Northeastern University, Boston, paper on European Consumer
Protection: Market or Social Citizenship for European Integration? (speaker)
Common Core of European Private Law, Workshop on the Harmonization of Contract Law
with Professor James Gordley (Berkeley University) Conference held by University of Trento
Law School, July 2001 and July 2002 (active participant)
COMMUNITY SERVICE INVOLVEMENT
CIE Piemonte, http://www.cie.it, Rinaldo Bontempi, President of the Center
Activity affiliated and participation to several conferences on Europe, Immigration, Citizenship
and women rights in the European Union and beyond.
Council of Europe, Political Affairs Committee, Office of the Clerk, Strasbourg, France
Supervisor Dr. Mateo Sorinas, Head of the Central Division, Political Affairs Committee
Period November-December 1996
Activity Worked on projects involving Eastern and Mediterranean Europe and the violation of
human rights and fundamental freedoms in Byelorussia and Cyprus
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European Parliament, Internship at Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Committee, Strasbourg,
France
Mentor On. Rinaldo Bontempi, Member of the European Parliament
Activity Involved in projects on European asylum and refugee policies and Delegation
for political and social rights for new democracies: Ukraine, Moldavia and
Byelorussia.
European Federalist Movement, (MFE) Turin, Italy
Mentor Professor Umberto Morelli, University of Turin, Faculty of Political
Sciences
Period 1992-1998
Activity organized conferences on European Union and Citizenship
Activity Editor of the Journal Federalismo nel Mondo
WORKING EXPERIENCES
ADJUCT PROFESSOR OF LAW, New England School of Law
Mentor Dean Charles Sorenson
Period Spring 2005
Activity Teaching EU Law
SUMMER ASSOCIATE, Goodwin Procter LLP
Mentor Kenneth Parsigian, Partner
Period Summer 2004
Activity Comparative Constitutionalism and Pro-Bono Litigation for GLAD
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Mentor Professor Daniel Meltzer (Federal Courts)
Period February April 2004
Activity Research work on European Law and Comparative Federalism
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Mentor Professor Janet Halley (Family Law and Discrimination)
Period June 2002 June 2004
Activity Research work on family law
CHAIR OF COMPARATIVE LAW, Faculty of Law, University of Turin
Mentor Professor Silvia Ferreri
Period January July 2001
Activity Research Assistant on Comparative Law
Revised articles and edited materials for publication
Teaching Fellow for Comparative Law course
STUDIO LEGALE FERRERI, Turin, Italy, http://www.studioferreri.it
Mentor Avvocato Marco Scalvini
Period January July 2001
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Activity Trainee Attorney
Accompanied clients to Court, research on Labor Law and Family Law
COMMON PRINCIPLES OF EUROPEAN PRIVATE LAW, European project
sponsored by the EC http://www.uni-muenster.de/Jura.history/Europa/Research/tmr.htm
Coordinator Professor Ajani, Director of the Law Department, University of Turin
Period October 1997 May 2001
Activity Managing Assistant for the EC Project TMR Network
Coordinated a large research project for the mobility of Young Researchers
Assisted in organizing placement of PhD scholars in European countries
INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANZATION, I.L.O. Training Center of Turin (Italy)
Coordinator Professor Gianmaria Ajani, University of Law, Turin
Period October 1997 May 2001
Activity Tutorial activity
Teaching Fellow for International Trade Law post-graduate course
Conference organizers, NewTrends in International Human Rights, with Professors
Niomi Roth Arriaza, and Ugo Mattei, Hastings College of Law, California.
PUBLICATIONS
Recent Constitutionalizing Tobacco: The Ambiguous shift in European Federalism
Development (forthcoming on Harvard Int l L.J. Spring 2005)
Article Multilevel Governance Alliances in the Harmonization of European Law
(forthcoming, Global Jurist, Berkeley University Press, Spring 2005)
Book Review W. BROWN AND J. HALLEY (editors) LEFT LEGALISM/LEFT CRITIQUE (2003)
with Anna di Robilant: Il Liberalismo alle prese con identit e redistribuzione:
Le critiche al rights discourse da parte della sinistra Americana ; Rivista Critica
del Diritto Privato, Dicembre 2004, pubished in Italian and Spanish.
Book review JAMES GORDLEY ED., THE ENFORCEABILITY OF PROMISES IN EUROPEAN
CONTRACT LAW; Book Review, (2001) 44 Harvard Int l L.J. 2003.
Paper Regulating Consumer Contracts: A Comparative Study of the American and
European Regulatory Experiences on Consumer Protection with Special
Attention to the Scholarly Debate on Distributive Justice Under the supervision
of Professor Duncan Kennedy, Harvard Law School, LL.M. paper, Spring 2002,
Harvard Law Library.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Italian (native); English (fluent); French (fluent); Spanish (fluent); Portuguese (basic)
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