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.

Paolo is recognized as Up and Coming for Arbitration – Italy by Chambers Global and has been listed as an Arbitration Future Leader since 2023 by Who’s Who Legal (WWL).

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.

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Selected Activities

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  • Full Professor of International Law at the University of Insubria (Como, Italy)
  • Director, Research Center on Swiss Law, University of Insubria (Como, Italy)

  • Member, Editorial Board, Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale
  • Member, Italian Society of International Law
  • Visiting Scholar, Columbia University School of Law, 2008
  • Visiting Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg (Germany), 2005
  • Visiting Researcher, Court of Justice of the European Communities, 2004

Publications

“Lexology In Depth: International Arbitration (Edition 16),” Lexology, June 6, 2025 (co-author)

“International Arbitration Trends and Topics for 2025,” Cleary Gottlieb Alert Memo, January 7, 2025 (co-author)

“Five International Arbitration Trends And Topics For 2023,” Cleary Gottlieb Alert Memo, January 30, 2023 (co-author) 

Diritto europeo dell’arbitrato internazionale, Giuffrè, 2015, pp. XIII-276.

Smart (legal) contracts: forum and applicable law issues, in CAPPIELLO, CARULLO (eds.), Blockchain, Law and Governance, New York, 2021, pp. 181-189.

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

Virtual Currencies and Private International Law, in Riv. dir. int. priv. proc., 2018, pp. 583-607.

La “Brexit” e il diritto internazionale privato e processuale, in Riv. dir. int. priv. proc., 2017, pp. 599-632.

Arbitration, the Brussels I Recast and the Need for European Arbitration Law, in Diritto dell’Unione europea, 2014, pp. 81-109.

Regulatory measures, standard of treatment and the law applicable to investment disputes (with Z. Crespi Reghizzi), in Riv. dir. int. priv. proc., 2013, pp. 43-74.

The ECJ’s Rules of Reason and Internationally Mandatory Rules, in BOSCHIERO, SCOVAZZI (eds.), International Courts and the Development of International Law. Essays in Honour of Tullio Treves, The Hague, 2013, pp. 747-756.

Choice of Law by the Parties in the Rome II Regulation, in Riv. dir. int., 2009, pp. 697-716.

Party Autonomy and Choice-Of-Law Methods in the “Rome II” Regulation on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations, in Dir. Un. eur., 2009, pp. 229-264.

Le fusioni transfrontaliere alla luce del recepimento italiano della decima direttiva societaria, in Riv. dir. int. priv. proc., 2010, pp. 35-54.

Events