Alessandro Chechi

Alessandro Chechi is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Geneva and at the Université Catholique of Lille. His main research areas currently cover international law, international cultural heritage law, dispute settlement, international organizations, human rights, transitional justice, and the law of international immunities.

Alessandro is a reporter for the International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC) – Oxford University Press project, and a member of the ‘Société international pour la recherche sur le droit du patrimoine culturel et le droit de l’art’ (ISCHAL), and of the Committee on ‘Participation in Global Cultural Heritage Governance’ of the International Law Association (Swiss branch). He is also a member of the editorial boards of the ‘Italian Yearbook of International Law’ and of the ‘Santander Art and Culture Law Review’.

Alessandro has taught at several universities – including the Catholic University of Milan (Italy), the University of Leiden (The Netherlands), the University of Zurich (Switzerland), Parthenope University of Naples (Italy), Shahid Beheshti University of Teheran (Iran), and the Universidade Federal da Paraíba of Joao Pessoa (Brazil). He was a consultant for the European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC) of the Council of Europe for the revision of the Convention on Offences Relating to Cultural Property.

He is the author of the book ‘The Settlement of International Cultural Heritage Disputes’ (Oxford University Press, 2014) and several other publications in edited books and journals.

Alessandro holds a PhD from the European University Institute of Florence, a LLM from the University College London, and a JD from the University of Siena.