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LL.B. (Panthéon-Sorbonne), LL.M. (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Ph.D. (McGill)
Mario is a Senior Lecturer in International and European Law. He joined Keele in 2007. Prior to that, he was a Liberatore Major Fellow at McGill University, where he taught various seminars on Public International Law and International Environmental Law. He also taught at other Montreal institutions and was a Law Tutor at Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris). He is a former fellow of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law.
Mario is currently serving as the Executive Director of the European Society of International Law and is the co-founder of the Society’s Interest Group in International Environmental Law (http://esiligiel.wordpress.com/).
Mario’s primary scholarly and teaching interests lie in the area of international law and organisations, with particular interest in critical legal theories, sustainable development and the resolution of international disputes. His current research focuses on the history of international environmental law, more specifically the relationship between early environmentalism and colonialism, and on the distribution of environmental costs, risks and responsibilities between the North and the South.
Mario would be willing/happy to supervise students working in the following areas: International Law, European Law, Immigration/Asylum Law, Comparative Public Law
Introduction to International Law
International Law, Globalisation and the Environment
Law of the European UnionHuman Rights, Globalisation and Justice (MA)
Gender, Sexuality and Law (LLM)
Mario is the chief editor of the Case Commentaries at the Quebec Review of International Law and the co-convenor of the Interest Group on International Environmental Law at the European Society of International Law.
Co-convenor of the Interest Group on International Environmental Law at the European Society of International Law.
Member of the Quebec Society of International Law
Executive Director - European Society of International Law
Keele University
