- Start date
- Duration
- Format
- Language
- 25 nov 2025
- 3 days
- Class
- English
This course will give professionals the necessary tools to rationally plan the management of cross-border disputes their companies are involved in.
Massimo Benedettelli
Law
Biography
Massimo is Fellow of Business Law at SDA Bocconi, where he is the Director of the program on International Arbitration and Risk Management and academic fellow at the Department of Law of the Bocconi University, where he co-teaches Disputes Resolutions in a Globalized Word. Until 2023 he has been full professor (professore ordinario) of International Law (tenured since 1994) at the Department of Law of the University “Aldo Moro”, in Bari. Throughout his academic career he also taught Private International Law, International Economic Law, EU Law and European Commercial Law.
Massimo is founding partner of ArbLit, Milan, a law firm specialized in cross-border disputes. Before he has been a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Chiomenti, having started his professional activities at the Legal Department of ENI S.p.A.
Upon designation of the ICC World Council Massimo has been appointed Italian member of the ICC Court of Arbitration to serve for the 2021-2023 term. Since July 2018 Massimo had already participated to the works of the ICC Court as Italian alternate member.
Massimo’s interests focus on international arbitration, investment law, international company and insolvency law, and European Law. Massimo is the author of the first-ever written treatise in English on International Arbitration in Italy (Kluwer International, 2020) and one of the editors of a leading commentary on Italian arbitration law (CEDAM, 2017). He publishes regularly on Italian and international law reviews and is a member of the editorial boards of Rivista dell’Arbitrato, Rivista di Diritto societario and Diritto del commercio Internazionale.
Upon invitation of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law, in January 2022 Massimo gave a course on Powers in International Arbitration: Between Party Autonomy, Arbitral Authority and State Sovereignty.
Massimo holds a degree in Political Sciences (1979) and Law (1984) from the University of Bari, a L.L.M. degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and PhD degree (1987) from the European University Institute.
Teaching domains
Arbitration and Dispute Resolution
International Commercial Contracts
Environmental Law and Climate Change Litigation
Latest publications
Arbitration as Balanced Administration of Justice. Essays In Honour of Piero Bernardini
Brill, Leiden, Netherlands (The), 2024
Roman Law Legacies for International Arbitration in the Third Millennium in Arbitration as Balanced Administration of Justice. Essays in Honor of Piero Bernardini
Massimo Benedettelli, Andrea Carlevaris, Antonio Crivellaro, Maria Beatrice Deli(Ed), Brill, chap. 3, pp.38-65, 2024
The Law Applicable to the Merits When Arbitrating Disputes With a State Party in Arbitraje y Jurisdicción. Homenaje a Miguel Ángel Fernández-Ballesteros
David Arias(Ed), CEIA - La Ley, pp.253-266, 2024
Reading the “golden rule” of art. 42 of the ICC rules through Chiovenda’s lenses
Revista de Arbitragem e Mediação – Rarb , 2024, vol.2, no. 80, pp.61-70
La legge applicabile alla procedura e al merito nell'arbitrato internazionale
Rivista dell'Arbitrato, 2023, vol.33, no. 4, pp.851-882
Determining the Applicable Law in Commercial and Investment Arbitration: Two Intertwined Road Maps for Conflicts-Solving
ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal, 2022, vol.37, no. 3, pp.687-722
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