Fernanda G. Nicola

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Fernanda G. Nicola is Professor of Law at American University’s Washington College of Law and Director of the Program on International Organizations Law and Development. Her research and teaching interests are in European Union Law, Comparative Law, U.S. Constitutional Law and Local Government Law. She received her PhD in Comparative Law from Trento University and her LL.M and SJD degrees from Harvard Law School, where she was the recipient of the Mancini Prize in European Law.

Professor Nicola was a Permanent Visiting Professor at iCourts the Danish National Research Foundation’s Center of Excellence for International Courts. She co-edited several volumes on EU law including EU Law Stories: Contextual and Critical Histories of European Jurisprudence with Professor Bill Davies and Researching the European Court of Justice with Professors Mikael Rask-Madsen and Antoine Vauchez, and The Italian Influence on European Law: Italian Judges and Advocates General 1952-2000 edited with Daniele Gallo, Roberto Mastroianni and Lorenzo Cecchetti (Hart 2024).

Professor Nicola wrote several groundbreaking articles in EU law including Legal Diplomacy in an Age of Authoritarianism, National Legal Traditions at Work in the Jurisprudence of the ECJ and Invisible Cities in Europe. In spring 2024, Professor Nicola served as an EU law expert for the American Bar Association (ABA) on their visit to the Warsaw Bar Association and then to Budapest to present her co-authored report with Transparency International on Protecting National Sovereignty: What is the Real Threat? Comparing the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act with Hungary’s National Protection of Sovereignty Law. She is on LinkedIn.