Paola Gaeta

Paola Gaeta is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and Adjunct Professor of International Law at Bocconi University, Milan. She is also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Institute for International Affairs and a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Criminal Justice.

Professor Gaeta is a leading expert on international criminal law and international criminal courts and tribunals, and has published widely on these issues.Her research interests focus on International criminal law, particularly with regard to topics more closely related to general issues of public international law and/or exposed to cross-fertilization by international human rights law and international humanitarian law.

Previously, Professor Gaeta was the first Director of the Geneva Academy (2007–2014), where she directed the LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (2010–2015) and Professor of International Criminal Law at the University of Geneva (2007–2015). From 1998 to 2007, she was consecutively Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor of International Law at the University of Florence.