Elisabetta Morlino is a Full Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa, where she teaches Administrative Law and Environmental Law.
She is Vice-President of the NATO/NSPA Independent Award Review and Debarment Board, the final judicial body that rules on disputes between NATO and private parties in the field of public procurement (see: https://short.do/6Cb-yG).
Her current research interests focus on three main strands: the relationship between power and responsability; the connections between the environment and equality; and the processes of privatization of international organizations.
She has been Jemolo Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford; Emile Noël Fellow and Senior Emile Noël Fellow at New York University School of Law (Jean Monnet Center); Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.
She has taught as adjunct professor at Sciences Po (Paris), Université Catholique de Lille, the Global School of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon), the Academy of European Public Law of the European Public Law Organization (Athens), and LUISS Guido Carli (Rome).
She is currently Book Editor and member of the Editorial Board of the International Organizations Law Review. Previously, she served as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Constitutional Law.
She earned a PhD in International Administrative Law from Sapienza University of Rome, the University of Florence, and the Italian Institute of Human Sciences (now the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa), and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University School of Law as a Hugo Grotius Scholar.
She graduated cum laude from the Faculty of Law of the University of Florence. During her university studies, she was an exchange student at New York University School of Law.
Before embarking on an academic career, she worked at the International Fund for Agricultural Development in Rome and, as an extern, at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs in New York.
She served as a member of the Interministerial Commission for the reform of the Environmental Code (2024–2025).
Since 2019, she has been a member of the Executive Board of IRPA, and since 2024 a member of the Executive Board of ICON-S Italy.
She is a member of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), IRPA, and the network Public Contracts in Legal Globalization / Contrats Publics dans la Globalisation Juridique (since 2009).
She is the author of books (I contratti delle organizzazioni internazionali, Editoriale Scientifica, 2012, 383 pp.; Procurement by International Organizations. A Global Administrative Law Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 514 pp., see: https://short.do/wfPh8Z; Amministrare e punire. La tutela dell’ambiente tra procedimento amministrativo e processo penale, Franco Angeli, 2020, 320 pp., see: https://short.do/Mnl1Y9), as well as essays and articles on international organizations, accountability of public authorities, discretion, public procurement, environmental protection, and gender equality in public administrations.
She was awarded the ICON-S Book Prize 2020 by the International Society of Public Law for Procurement by International Organizations. A Global Administrative Law Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 2019 (Laudatio: https://short.do/5wKkK_).