Alessandro Petti

Alessandro is a legal scholar with an interdisciplinary background. 

His work is devoted to the study of the European Union and its laws. He is interested in investigating how the substantive development of EU law shapes the constitutional underpinnings of the Union and its posture as an international legal actor. He has a significant expertise in the law of the EU's proximity policies. 

Before joining Bocconi University as Assistant Professor in EU Law, Alessandro has been Research Fellow at the Centre for European Law at the University of Oslo, and Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, where he completed his LLM in Comparative, European and International Laws. He holds a PhD in Law from Sciences Po Paris and an MA from the College of Europe in Bruges. He has been Blue Book Trainee at the European Commission in Brussels. 

He has designed and taught courses on EU law, EU law and diplomacy, the law of the European Neighbourhood Policy, and EU external relations law.