Elisabetta Morlino is assistant professor of administrative law at the University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa. She holds a Ph.D. in global administrative law from the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (now part of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from the New York University (NYU) School of Law. She has been Hugo Grotius Scholar at NYU and visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She has served as legal consultant for the International Fund for Agricultural Development's (IFAD) Procurement Division in Rome and as extern at the UN Office of Legal Affairs in New York. She is member of International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), the Public Contracts in Legal Globalization (PCLG-Network), Academic Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and Instituto Di Ricerche Sulla Pubblica Amministrazione (IRPA). She has previously published in the fields of global and European administrative law, international organizations and environmental protection.