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Paolo G. Carozza

Associate Professor of Law

Office Number: 2142 Eck Hall of Law
Telephone: 574.631.4128
Fax: 574.631.4197
Email: pcarozza@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Sharon Loftus

Paolo Carozza’s expertise is in the areas of comparative law, human rights, and international law, and his extensive writings in these areas have been published in Europe and Latin America as well as in the United States. He is currently a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and served as its President in 2008-09. At Notre Dame, he is the Director of the Law School’s J.S.D. program in international human rights law, and is also a fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. Professor Carozza earned both his A.B. and J.D. degrees from Harvard, and pursued graduate studies at Cambridge University and at Harvard Law School as a Ford Foundation Fellow in Public International Law. After law school, he served as a judicial clerk for the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia and worked as an associate at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Arnold & Porter.

Professor Carozza teaches regularly at the Post-Graduate School of Economics and International Relations of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy, and he has also offered courses at various other universities and institutes in the United States, Europe, and South America. In 2004 he was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the University of Milan. In spring 2009, he was Visiting Associate Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization at Harvard Law School.

In the News

  • LAW70401, International Law
  • LAW70417, Introduction to International Human Rights
  • LAW70816, Jurisprudence
  • LAW 73421, Regional Human Rights Protection
  • LAW73422, (The) Inter-American Human Rights System
  • LAW83429, JSD Seminar
  • LAW88703, JSD Dissertation

Faculty Expertise Areas

  • Comparative public law
  • European and Latin American legal traditions
  • International law
  • Human rights law

Professor Carozza’s research and writing covers areas in international law, international and comparative human rights, European and Latin American legal systems, comparative legal methods, and theoretical approaches to international law and human rights.

The following are selected recent or representative works. Acomplete bibliography is available on Professor Carozza’s CV.

Books

COMPARATIVE LEGAL TRADITIONS: TEXT, MATERIALS AND CASES ON WESTERN LAW (West Publishing, 3rd ed. 2007) (with Mary Ann Glendon and Colin B. Picker).

Book segments and articles

I diritti umani, l’«arte» della democrazia e il «gusto per la libertà locale», in La Sostenibilità Della Democrazia Nel XXI Secolo (Marta Cartabia and Andrea Simoncini eds., Il Mulino, forthcoming 2009).

The Catholic Church, Human Rights, and Democracy: Convergence and Conflict With the Modern State, in The Cross, The Crescent And The Ballot Box: Catholic And Islamic Dialogue On The Rule Of Law And International Democracy Promotion (Peter J. Schraeder ed., forthcoming 2009); coauthored with Daniel Philpott.

Human Dignity and Judicial Interpretation of Human Rights: A Reply, 19 European Journal of International Law 931 (2008).

Sussidiarietà e sovranità negli ordinamenti sovranazionali, in Che cosa è la sussidiarieta’ 113 (Giorgio Vittadini ed., Guerini e Associati, 2007).

Il traffico dei diritti umani nell’età postmoderna, in Il traffico dei diritti insaziabili (Luca Antonini ed., Rubbettino Editore, 2007).

From Conquest to Constitutions: Retrieving a Latin American Tradition of the Idea of Human Rights, 25 Human Rights Quarterly 281 (2003).

“My Friend is a Stranger”: The Death Penalty and the Global Ius Commune of Human Rights, 81 Texas Law Review 1031 (2003).

Subsidiarity as a Structural Principle of International Human Rights Law, 97 American Journal of International Law 38 (2003).