Elisabetta Morlino is Full Professor of Administrative Law at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples, 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 private parties’ appeals against NSPA in public procurement matters.
She has been a Jemolo Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, an Emile Noël Fellow and later Senior Emile Noël Fellow at New York University School of Law (Jean Monnet Center), and a visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.
She has taught as an adjunct professor at SciencesPo (Paris), the Université Catholique of Lille, the Global School of Law at the 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 holds a Ph.D. in International Administrative Law from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, the University of Florence, and the Italian Institute of Human Sciences (now Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa), as well as an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University School of Law, where she was a Hugo Grotius Scholar.
She graduated with honors in Law from the University of Florence. During her studies, she was an exchange student at New York University School of Law.
Before pursuing 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 was a member of the Interministerial Commission for the Reform of the Environmental Code (2024).
Since 2019 she has been a member of the Governing Board of IRPA, and since 2024 of the Governing 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 several 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., link); Amministrare e punire. La tutela dell’ambiente tra procedimento amministrativo e processo penale (Franco Angeli, 2020, 320 pp., link) — as well as essays and articles on international organizations, public powers’ liability, discretion, 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 her volume Procurement by International Organizations. A Global Administrative Law Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2019) (Laudatio).
Her current research interests lie in three main areas: the relationship between power and responsibility, the connections between environment and equality, and the privatization of international organizations.