Education
- Visiting Scholar – “Trade Law and Sustainable Energy,” Harvard Law School, East Asian Legal Studies, Boston, USA, 2012
- Dual PhD – “China’s Integration into the WTO and the EU-China Trade Relations,” Aix-Marseille University, Centre of International and European Research and Studies, France and University of Milan, Doctoral School on International Law, Italy, 2011
- Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL), Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., USA, Fall 2004
- LL.M in European Legal Studies, College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, 2003
- J.D. in International and European Law, University of Paris Ouest La Defense Nanterre, France, 2002
Paolo Davide Farah (PhD, PhD, LL.M, J.D.) is an Associate Professor (with tenure) at West Virginia University, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics, Department of Public Administration, having joined the faculty in 2014.
Professor Farah is also an “Internationally Renowned Professor/Distinguished Professor of Law” (Full Professor level) at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), Law School, Beijing, China.
He is Founder, President, Director of Research/Principal Investigator (Honorary Position) and Senior Research Fellow of gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom and USA) http://www.glawcal.org.uk .
Farah is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL), Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC, USA and was also a EU Commission Marie Curie Fellow.
Professor Farah is teaching and conducting research in public policy and public administration, democratic context of public administration, legal and political foundations, international law, climate change, international trade, business and human rights, social justice, sustainable development, energy and environmental law and policy. Farah is an expert in the interaction among trade, economic globalization and non-trade concerns, such as sustainable development, energy, environment and human rights.
He has taught various classes at different institutions on public international law, international economic law and WTO law, international business law, company law and international environmental and energy law, European Law, Comparative law, and Chinese law in Italy (2003-2011), in the UK as Senior Lecturer in Law – Associate Professor (2012-2014), USA and China as Visiting Professor (since 2008). Prof. Farah was also a Researcher at the Centre of Advanced Studies on Contemporary China (CASCC) in Turin.
Farah acts as Editor-in-Chief for the Book Series “Transnational Law and Governance” and the Book Series of “Global Law and Sustainable Development” (in English) published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis (New York/London) and the Book Series Studies on Globalization published by Wolters Kluwer (CEDAM) for Books in Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and other non-English languages.
During the academic year 2011-2012, Prof. Paolo Farah spent one year as Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School. http://www.law.harvard.edu
He is Scientific Director and Program coordinator of the Summer School held in Beijing with two parallel curricula: “Summer Institute on Climate Change and Environmental Protection” (SICCEP) and “Summer Institute on Intellectual Property Rights and China” (IP-China). This program is organized by West Virginia University, John. D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics, Department of Public Administration and gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom), in partnership with University of Provence Aix Marseille I – CNRS Centre of Comparative Epistemology and Ergology in France, University Carlos III of Madrid in Spain, Catholic University of Milan Faculty of Law, University of Pavia Faculty of Law and University of Eastern Piedmont Faculty of Economics in Italy. https://paolofarah.wordpress.com/summer-schools-in-china
Since 2018, Farah has been an elected Board Member of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) and since 2016 he has been the Chair of the ESIL Interest Group on International Environmental Law (elected for an additional term until 2024). He is also the Chair of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Interest Group on International Environmental Law and the Vice-Chair of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Interest Group on International Law and Technology. From 2017 to 2020, he was Chair for the ASIL Interest Group on Intellectual Property Law.
Since 2014, Professor Farah has been an Appointed Member of the International Law Association – ILA Committees on Sustainable Development and the Green Economy in International Trade Law and ILA Committee on Role of International Law in Sustainable Natural Resource Management for Development.
International consultant and legal advisor for a project of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to assist and assess the accession of Belarus to the WTO (in particular the TRIPs agreement) and to verify whether the commitments taken by Belarus within the framework of the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation are in compliance with the future potential accession to the WTO
Consultant for the European Commission in Brussels (2007 to now) and TAIEX-Technical Assistance Information Exchange of the European Commission (EU law implementation in new member States such as Cyprus and Slovak Republic).
He was the Coordinator of the project entitled “Evaluating Policies for Sustainable Energy Investments: towards an Integrated Approach on National and International Stage (EPSEI)” approved by the European Commission in the 7th Framework Programme. The network includes 8 academic institutions and research centers in Europe, China (Tsinghua University and CRAES) and Russia.
He is also Scientific Director and Coordinator for the research project on “Current Trends of Chinese Law towards Non-Trade Concerns such as Sustainable Development and the Protection of Environment, Public Health, Food Safety, Cultural, Social and Economic Rights, Labour Rights and the Reduction of Poverty from the Perspective of International Law and WTO Law”. This project has been approved in April 2011 and funded for 2 years 2011-2012 by the China-EU School of Law (CESL) in Beijing. The funding has covered the organization of three conferences: the first one at University of Turin Faculty of Law and at the Center of Advanced Studies on Contemporary China (CASCC) in Turin, the second one at Tsinghua University School of Law in Beijing and the third one at Maastricht University Faculty of Law. The project co-funded also the publication of the book in three languages (English, Italian and Chinese).
He has studied for his J.D. in International and European Law at University Paris Ouest La Defense – Nanterre, Faculty of Law and at Catholic University of Milan, Faculty of Law. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) in European Legal Studies from the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium and a joint doctoral degree (Double PhD) in International Law at the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche Internationales et Communautaires (CERIC), University Paul Cézanne Aix Marseilles III (Aix-en-Provence) and at the Department of Public, Civil procedure, International and European law, University of Milan, Faculty of Law. He was a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL) in Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC. He spent one year at the Faculty of Law of Renmin University in Beijing for his thesis on “China’s Integration into the WTO and the Problem of Internal Barriers”.
He attended the high specialized summer courses at the Hague Academy of International Law during the Summer 2010. During his teaching and researching in Milan, he has been selected to be in-house resident at the Excellency College “Collegio di Milano”
Since January 2010 to June 2010, he has been Visiting Scholar at Tsinghua University Law School. In the Fall 2010, he was also Lecturer at China-EU School of Law (CESL – with the cooperation of CUPL – China University of Politics and Law in Beijing – Faculty of Law funded by the European Commission), and at Beijing Foreign Studies University, Law Department. During the Fall 2010, he taught a module on EU law in a multidisciplinary course organized by the European University Center at the Peking University, School of Government.
He has been Consultant (2007-2009) for the Italian Ministry of the Economic Development and Commerce and for the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) for the Development of the Relations between Italian and Chinese Provinces, in particular for Guangdong, Tangshan, Zhejiang. He has been awarded by the European Commission of a two years contract from April 2009 to March 2011 with the European Commission in Brussels and the EU Delegation in Beijing (EuropeAid/127024/L/ACT/CN_STF/08). He was principal investigator for a research project which aims primarily at investigating some of the most controversial issues raised by the Energy sector from the perspective of the law of the World Trade Organization; the Oil & Gas and the renewable energies in China; Anti-Monopoly Law in China.
He worked at the Legal Affairs Division of the WTO in Geneva, he was also an Associate of Baker & McKenzie Law Firm Milan Branch (2003-2005). Scientific Coordinator, responsible of the research group and consultant for the project 2007 on “The WTO and the Anti-dumping Law: European Union, China, Vietnam and India”, with a partnership between University of Milan, Assolombarda (Entrepreneurial Association of Lombardy Region – the largest regional Entrepreneurial Association of Confindustria – Italian National Association of Enterprises), ANCI – Associazione Nazionale Calzaturifici Italiani (Italian Association of Shoes Producers), Agenzia per la Cina , Baker & McKenzie Law Firm, funded by Finlombarda and the European Social Fund.
Professor Farah was a Guest Editor-in-Chief for the SSCI – Journal of World Energy Law and Business (Oxford University Press), Guest Editor-in-Chief for SSCI Journal Sustainability.
Professor Farah’ work has appeared or is forthcoming, among others, in such journals as the Journal of International Economic Law (Oxford University Press), Journal of World Energy Law and Business (Oxford University Press), Journal of World Trade (Kluwer Law International), Legal Issues of Economic Integration (Kluwer Law International), European Energy and Environmental Law Review (Kluwer Law International), Oregon Law Review, Georgetown International Environmental law Review, Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Columbia Journal of Asian Law.
He has been referee of manuscripts of monographs and articles for publishers and academic journals including Cambridge University Press on topics related to WTO Law, international trade law, EU law and Chinese law. Member of the Editorial committee of the international review “Research in Social Change (RSC)”, published by the Faculty of Applied Social Studies in Nova Gorica: peer reviewer of articles and comments on Chinese law and policy. He has presented his papers to several international conferences (Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Xi’An, Chengdu, Suzhou, Paris, Essex, Geneva, Lugano, Bologne, Milan, Rome, Trento, Bratislava, Nicosia, Brussels, Aix-en-Provence, Washington DC). He is Italian mother tongue, he is fluent in English and French and he has a working knowledge of Chinese.
For further information, please visit the following blogs, websites and social networks at:
- SSRN Author’s Page: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=629289
- Academia: https://wvu.academia.edu/PaoloDavideFarah
- Research-Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paolo_Farah?ev=hdr_xprf
- Personal Blog: https://paolofarah.wordpress.com
- Publications: https://paolofarah.wordpress.com/list-of-publications
- Twitter: @PaoloDFarah
- gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development: http://www.glawcal.org.uk
- Twitter: @gLAWcal
- Summer Law Institute in China held at in Beijing: http://summerlawinstitute.com/
- Twitter: @SLI_China!
Teaching Interests
- Democratic Context of Public Administration
- Legal and Political Foundations
- Public Policy and Public Administration
- Human Rights and Social Justice
- Energy Policy, Oil & Gas, Environmental Policy, Natural Resources, Climate Policy, Water
- International Law, Trade Regulation and WTO, Intellectual Property and New Technologies
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