Fernanda Giorgia Nicola joined the WCL faculty in Fall of 2006. She is an expert in European and Comparative Law, the law of the European Union, Contracts and Tort Law. Prior to teaching at the WCL, Fernanda was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the New England School of Law. She has also taught at Harvard Law School and the University of Turin Law School at the ILO Training Center of Turin. She has been a summer associate and law clerk at Goodwin Procter, LLP in Boston, a research assistant at Harvard Law School, and a trainee attorney at Studio Legale Ferreri in Turin, Italy. In 1995, she was an intern at the European Parliament in the Civil Rights, Civil Liberties Committee; and in 1996, at the Council of Europe, Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly.
Contracts
Transatlanticism: The Trade in Legal Ideas in the Formation of European Private Law, ExpressO (2008)
This article elucidates certain changes over the last decade in the way lawyers, judges and...
Selected Publications
Promises of Accession: Reassessing the Trade Relationship between Turkey and the European Union, American University International Law Review (2009)
This Article reassesses the Turkey-European Union trade relationship in light of the doctrine of promissory...
A Social Dimension in European Private Law? The Call for Setting a Progressive Agenda (with University of California Hastings College of Law), New England Law Review (2007)
This Article aims to show what the political, rather than the technical stakes, are in...
Constitutionalizing Tobacco: The Ambivalence of European Federalism, Harvard International Law Journal (2006)
The Treaty Establishing the European Community announces in EC TREATY art. 5.1. the principle that...
Contract and Tort law
A 'Social Dimension' in European Private Law? The Call for Setting a Progressive Agenda (with Ugo Mattei), Global Jurist (2010)
I. The Europeanization of Private Law: Legal Sources, Ideology and Process: 1. Legal Sources in...
Legla theory
A 'Social Dimension' in European Private Law? The Call for Setting a Progressive Agenda (with Ugo Mattei), Global Jurist (2010)
I. The Europeanization of Private Law: Legal Sources, Ideology and Process: 1. Legal Sources in...
European Private Law
A 'Social Dimension' in European Private Law? The Call for Setting a Progressive Agenda (with Ugo Mattei), Global Jurist (2010)
I. The Europeanization of Private Law: Legal Sources, Ideology and Process: 1. Legal Sources in...
Comparative law
A 'Social Dimension' in European Private Law? The Call for Setting a Progressive Agenda (with Ugo Mattei), Global Jurist (2010)
I. The Europeanization of Private Law: Legal Sources, Ideology and Process: 1. Legal Sources in...
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Intimate Liability: Emotional Harm, Family Law, and Stereotyped Narratives of Interspousal Torts, Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals (2013)
Tort liability expanded in the twentieth century, a shift scholars generally attribute to the reorganization...
Invisible Cities in Europe, Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals (2012)
Cities in Europe control municipal services, varying from education, public health, waste management and housing...
'Creatures of the State': Regulatory Federalism, Local Immunities, and EU Waste Regulation in Comparative Perspective, Contributions to Books (2011)
The False Promise of Decentralization in EU Cohesion Policy, Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals (2011)
The European Union (EU) is “going local” by taking decentralization of power seriously in order...