Chiara Zaia was admitted to the Italian BAR and is member of the Lawyers register of Rome since December 2022.
She graduated in Law from the “Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali” (LUISS) “Guido Carli” in April 2020 by discussing a thesis in International Law on “Non-proliferation and Disarmament: Nuclear Weapons under International Law,” obtaining a grade of 110/110.
Since November 2020, she is a PhD candidate in Human Rights at the University of Palermo, with a thesis entitled “Implementing Human Rights in Investment Law and Arbitration: Achievements and Future Challenges.”
She has been working with the SP Firm since June 2020, within which she mainly practices in the area of international law, dealing with human rights litigation before the European Court of Human Rights and international investment arbitrations.
In 2018, she performed a six-month internship at the Italian National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC Italy).
- PhD in “Human Rights: Evolution, Protection and Limits” at the University of Palermo (2020-)
- Visiting researcher at the “Peace Palace Library” (The Hague, Netherlands) (2023-)
- Cultrice della materia at LUISS Guido Carli - Course “International Organizations and Human Rights” (2021-)
- Cultrice della materia at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” - Course “International Law” (2022-)
- Coach of the LUISS Guido Carli team for the “Philip C. Jessup” Moot Court Competition (2019-)
- Teaching assistant at LUISS Guido Carli - “International Institutions and Global Governance” course at the Department of Business and Management (2020-2022)
- Single-cycle master’s degree in law from LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome (110/110)
- Member of the 2018 LUISS Team for the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition - oralist at the national championship rounds
- Erasmus at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg - program in “International and Comparative Business Law”
