Paolo D. Farah, LL.M., J.D., Ph.D.

About

Paolo D. Farah is a visiting professor of law at The University of Tulsa.

Awards and honors

• Chair, Sub-Committee on Business and Human Rights, American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) – Committee on International Human Rights (current)
• Appointed Member (Alternate), International Law Association (ILA) – Committee on Business and Human Rights (current)
• Convener, European Society of International Law (ESIL) – European and International Rule of Law Interest Group (current)
• Director and Editor, American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) American Journal of Comparative Law, (current)
• John Cabot University, Rome (2025) – Visiting Professor of Intellectual Property Theory and Law
• University of Rome Tor Vergata (2025) – Visiting Professor, teaching Uniform Private Law, Global Law, Law and Development, and related subjects; also Advisory Board member of the PhD Program “Theory of Contracts, Services, and Markets”
• University of Verona (2025) – Virtual Visiting Professor of International Cultural Heritage Law
• École Normale Supérieure (ENS-PSL), Paris (2025) – Visiting Professor, Chair of the conference “Towards a Global Ecological–Economic Legal Framework”
• University of Turin (2025) – Visiting Professor in Comparative Law and Cultural Development
• University of Milan (2023–2025) – Visiting Professor of Law, teaching International Environmental Law, Climate Change, Sustainability, and Technology Policy
• Bocconi University (2024) – Visiting Professor of Law, teaching Global Administrative Law and Climate Change Law
• Visiting Professor of Law, University of Bari, Italy (2024)
• Visiting Professor of Law, University of Salerno, Italy (2023)
• Appointed Member, International Law Association (ILA) – Committee on Submarine Cables and Pipelines under International Law (2022-2025)
• Visiting Researcher, University of Messina, Italy (2022)
• Visiting Professor of Law and Named Chair Balladore Pallieri, Catholic University of Milan, Italy (2021–2022)
• Visiting Professor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (2022)
• Researcher, Center for Law and Development, Qatar University (2022)
• Elected Board Member, European Society of International Law (ESIL) (2018–2022)
• Chair, ESIL Interest Group on International Environmental Law (2016–2024)
• Vice-Chair (2019–2020) and Chair (2020–2023), American Society of International Law (ASIL) – Interest Group on International Environmental Law
• Vice-Chair (2020–2021) and Chair (2021–2023), American Society of International Law (ASIL) – Interest Group on International Law and Technology
• Chair, American Society of International Law (ASIL) – Interest Group on Intellectual Property Law (2017–2020)
• Appointed Member, International Law Association (ILA) – Committee on Sustainable Development and the Green Economy in International Trade Law (2014–2022)
• Appointed Member, International Law Association (ILA) – Committee on the Role of International Law in Sustainable Natural Resource Management for Development (2014–2022)
• Visiting Professor, Royal University for Women, Bahrain (2019)
• Visiting Professor and Foreign Expert, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China (2017–2019)
• EU Commission Marie Curie Fellow, Beijing Normal University, Peking University, and Tsinghua University, China (2011–2016)
• EU Commission Science and Technology Fellowship (STF) Program in China, Fellow, hosted at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Chinese partner institutions (2009–2011)
• Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School, East Asian Legal Studies Program (2011–2012)
• Visiting Professor and Co-Director, China Intellectual Property Summer Institute (CHIPSI), Tsinghua University & University of New Hampshire (2009–2010)
• Selected by the Italian Government among the Best Young Italian Talents, Festival Nazionale dei Giovani Talenti, Rome (2010)
• Nominated and Shortlisted for Excellence in Teaching, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom (2013)
• WVU Scholarship Awards for Research (2015, 2016, 2017)
• Invited Judge, Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition – Russian National Championship (2019)