Dr Francesco Corradini obtained his BA degree in political science from the University of Padova and MA and PhD degrees in international law (with a minor in anthropology and sociology) from the Geneva Graduate Institute. He worked as research assistant in the ‘Interface Law’ project at the Geneva Graduate Institute, and he was part of of the ‘OSAIC’ research group at the Berlin Social Science Center. He was a visiting scholar at the Melbourne Law School’s Institute for International Law and the Humanities, and at Columbia Law School.
Francesco has interests in international law, social theory, historical sociology of law and expertise, law and global governance, and digital humanities. He is interested in conducting empirical research that allows him to study the articulation between global governance and national settings, the contexts around the relationship between multiple legalities and the making and contestation of boundaries.
Francesco joined the Department of Business Humanities and Law in April 2024. He is currently a Postdoc in European Research Council Advanced Grant Project ‘Global Value Chain Law: Constituting Connectivity, Contracts and Corporations (GLOBALVALUE). His current research focuses on legal entanglements connected with the evolution of the international governance of trade, finance and the emergence of global value chains from colonial to post-colonial contexts and processes of European integration.
Francesco is a native Italian speaker, he is fluent in French and English and can read Spanish and Portuguese.
Primary research areas
Law and global governance, entangled legal orders
Historical sociology of law and expertise
International governance of finance, trade, and global value chains
International and European Union law
Human rights, corporate responsibility law and international standard-setting
N Krisch, F Corradini & L Lu Reimers, ‘Order at the Margins: the Legal Construction of Interface Conflicts Over Time’, Global Constitutionalism, 2020.
F Corradini, ‘The Social Life of Entanglements: International Investment and Human Rights Norms in and Beyond ISDS’, in N Krisch (ed), Entangled Legalities Beyond the State, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
F Corradini, ‘The Struggle for International Financial Standards: an Historical Analysis of Entangling Legalities in Finance’, in N Krisch (ed), Entangled Legalities Beyond the State, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
