Judge of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea since October 2020.
Full professor of international law at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” since 2005.
Alternate arbitrator of the OSCE Court of Arbitration and Conciliation since 2019.
Member of the Italian national group of the Permanent Court of Arbitration since 2014.
Member of the Administrative Tribunal of the IILA (International Italo-Latin American Organisation) since 2022.
Barrister in the Rome Bar since 1989.
Visiting professor in international law in several Italian and foreign universities and in several public institutions of higher education.
President of the MA Course in “International Relations and Organisations” at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (2010-2021).
Ad hoc judge of the European Court of Human Rights in two cases from 2016 to 2021.
Counsel of Italy in several international disputes before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the Arbitral Tribunal, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights.
Consultant, as a legal expert, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Legal Service from 1994 until 2020, participating as a member of the Italian delegation in various bodies and committees of the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the European Union and in various multilateral and bilateral negotiations.
Member of several scientific associations and of scientific committees of journals and series on international law and European Union law.
Editor of two scientific series on respectively international law and European Union law and International Humanitarian law.
Author of several volumes and around eighty articles (in Italian, English and French) on international law, international law of the sea, international protection of human rights, international humanitarian law. She is the editor of eleven volumes, some also in English.