Paolo Bertoli

Practice Areas

Paolo Bertoli’s practice focuses on arbitration and litigation.

Paolo has extensive experience in numerous high-profile international and domestic arbitrations involving complex commercial, construction, and energy disputes, as well as public international law matters. He has also represented top-tier clients in commercial, follow-on, corporate, securities, and foreign award enforcement litigation before Italian courts. Additionally, he has served as arbitrator and party-appointed expert in both arbitral and foreign litigation proceedings. He is admitted to practice before the Italian Supreme Court.

Career

Paolo is Full Professor of International Law at the University of Insubria (Como, Italy) and Director of the Research Centre on Swiss Law at that institution. He has published extensively in leading Italian and international law reviews and regularly lectures on various aspects of public and private international law, as well as international civil procedure.

Paolo was a visiting researcher at the Court of Justice of the European Communities in 2004 and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany in 2005, as well as a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University School of Law in 2008. He is a member of the editorial board of the Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale, the Italian Society of International Law, and the European Association of Private International Law.

Professional Memberships

Bar Admissions: Milan Bar and Italian Supreme Court

Publications

• Diritto europeo dell’arbitrato internazionale, Giuffrè, 2015 (book).

• Nozioni di diritto internazionale privato e processuale, Giappichelli, 2023 (book)

• Tutela degli investimenti esteri e rilancio dell’economia italiana, in Dir. comm. int., 2020, pp. 1 – 32.

• Arbitrato commerciale internazionale ed equo processo, in MANTUCCI (a cura di), Trattato di diritto dell’arbitrato, XII, Milano, 2021, pp. 417-437.

• Right of nature and investment protection, in Dir. comm. int., 2022, pp. 839-853.

• I mezzi istruttori, in COCCIA, DELI (eds), Introduzione al diritto dell'arbitrato internazionale, Giappichelli, 2024, pp. 207-223.

• Norme di applicazione necessaria e ordine pubblico sotto la lente del consolidamento dello spazio europeo di giustizia, in IVALDI, MUNARI, QUEIROLO, SCHIANO DI PEPE, TUO (a cura di), Verso il completamento dello spazio giudiziario europeo in materia civile e commerciale, Wolter Kluwer, 2025, pp. 119-138.

• Lexology’s “In Depth: International Arbitration”, Edition 16, Italy Chapter, June 6, 2025 (co-author)

• “Investment Arbitration, the Shield for Italian Companies Against Sovereign Risks in South America”, article published by MF-Milano Finanza, January 16, 2026 (co-author)

Personal

EDUCATION Università degli Studi di Milano

Ph.D.

2005

Università degli Studi di Milano

J.D.

summa cum laude

2001

Languages Spoken

Italian; English; French