Maria Anna Corvaglia
working in Subproject 4 – International Federalism
Biography
Dr. Maria Anna Corvaglia has been a Lecturer at the Birmingham Law School since January 2017. Previously, Maria Anna joined the Durham Law School in January 2015 and she worked in the context of the ERC-funded research project “Dividing Political Power among People(s)” for two years, until December 2016. She also holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Zurich and she obtained a Master degree in International Law and Economics (MILE Programme) of the World Trade Institute, University of Bern. She also holds a bachelor degree in political science from the LUISS University of Rome.
Most of her research to date has focused on the international regulation of public procurement and the protection of socio-environmental concerns in international economic law, following a strong comparative and interdisciplinary approach.
Broad Research Interests
Dr. Maria Anna Corvaglia’s research to date has focused primarily on fragmentation and coherence in international trade multilateral framework. During her doctoral studies at the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich, she pursued her research on the interface between trade, public procurement and social regulations. Her PhD thesis title “Towards Coherence in the International Architecture of Public Procurement: The Labour Policy Dimension” explores the international regulatory framework of the social use of public procurement, facing a complex structure of national, European and international regulatory levels. Maria Anna Corvaglia’s previous research addressed South−South technology transfer in the context of climate change mitigation, as well as the rules for international energy trade.
Research on International Federalism
In the context of Subproject 4 – International Federalism Dr. Maria Anna Corvaglia reserched the contribution of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to multi-level governance, through the lens of Federalism. Her research project explores the regulatory evolution of the founding principles of multilateral trading system, framed as tension between progressive negative liberalization and positive integration, at different levels of trade governance and in the case study of the international regulation of public procurement.
Publications
Books
Journal Articles
(2016) “Public Procurement and Private Standards: Ensuring Sustainability under the WTO Government Procurement Agreement”, Journal of International Economic Law
(2016) “TTIP Negotiations and Public Procurement: Internal Federalist Tensions and External Risks of Marginalisation”, The Journal of World Investment & Trade , forthcoming
Conference Papers
(2016) “Squaring TTIP Negotiations with the Idea of Federalism: the Case of Public Procurement”, peper presented to the 5th Conference on European Law and Policy in Context The Future of European Law and Policy, University of Birmingham, 23 – 24 June 2016, Birmingham (UK). Download the PPT here
Working Papers and Other Academic Publications
(2014) “Accession of EECCA Countries to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement: Commitments and Expectations”, ICTSD Bridges Network МОСТЫ, Vol. 7 Num. 7.
(2014) “The interplay between state aid control and public procurement rules in the WTO multilateral trading system”, prepared for and accepted to 4th Biennial Global Conference of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), 10-12 July 2014, Bern (CH).