Francesco Corradini

Dr. Francesco Corradini has degrees in political science from the University of Padua and international law from the Geneva Graduate Institute, where he also obtained his PhD in international law (with a minor in anthropology and sociology). His PhD thesis deals with the relationship between the formation of the discipline of public international law and the governance of sovereign debt issues from the late 19th century to the interwar period. During his doctoral research, Francesco has been a visiting researcher at Melbourne Law School´s Institute for International Law and the Humanities and a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School. His research has been supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. As a lawyer by training, Francesco´s research is theoretically and empirically grounded and combines different research fields from legal theory, law and global governance scholarship, sociology and history. Francesco has a strong interest in researching primary sources in different languages (English, Italian, French, Spanish) and has experience with archival research, including archives of international organizations and academic institutions. At the Department of Business Humanities and Law at CBS, Francesco is currently a Postdoc in the European Research Council Advanced Grant Project ‘Global Value Chain Law: Constituting Connectivity, Contracts and Corporations’, directed by Professor Poul Kjaer. He will be researching and writing on the historical sociology of economic law and the origins of contemporary global value chains law global economic governance.