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Roberto Mastroianni

Judge - General Court of the European Union

Roberto Mastroianni obtained a law degree at the University of Florence in 1987 and a Master of Laws at the Penn State University Dickinson School of Law (USA) in 1990. He studied for a doctorate in law at the University of Bologna, where he defended his thesis in 1992. He then pursued postdoctoral studies at University of Geneva from 1992 to 1993, and at the University of Amsterdam and at New York Law School (USA) in 1993 and 1994.

Mr Mastroianni began his professional career as a researcher in international law at the Università degli Studi di Firenze from 1992 to 1997 before working at the Court of Justice as a legal secretary to Advocates General Giuseppe Tesauro and Antonio Saggio from 1997 to 2000.

He was subsequently a Professor of EU law at the University of Naples Federico II from 2000 to 2019, during which period he published a large number of works. In addition, he taught EU law and European litigation as a visiting professor at the University of Paris II, Panthéon-Assas, from 2011 to 2013. He also taught EU law at LUISS University Rome from 2013 to 2017. In 2015, he was appointed as a Professor of comparative competition law at the Sturm College of Law of the University of Denver (USA), where he taught until 2019.

Between 1993 and 2019, Mr Mastroianni was a lawyer authorised to plead before higher Italian courts. He was also a member of the Board of Governors of the Italian Society of International Law from 2013 to 2015 and of the Italian Association of EU Law Scholars from 2018 to 2021. In addition, he was an adviser on legislative matters in the Department of European Affairs of the Italian Government between 2015 and 2018.
Mr Mastroianni was appointed as a Judge at the General Court on 26 September 2019.