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Paolo Mazzotti

Paolo Mazzotti is a Ph.D. candidate and Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. He holds a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Trento, as well as an LL.M. in International Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute, and is a recipient of the Diploma in the Law of the EU from the EUI’s Academy of European Law.
POSTS BY Paolo Mazzotti
20 January 2026
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Reforming the Italian “Magistracy”

On 30th October 2025, the Italian Parliament approved a constitutional amendment that will be put to a referendum in March 2026. A brainchild of the Meloni government, the reform redesigns the constitutional framework governing Italy’s judicial system. Among other changes, it separates previously unified career paths for prosecutors and judges, and introduces a mechanism of appointment by sortition for members of all these bodies. Read in its historical and political context, we argue, the reform problematically weakens the third branch of the Italian system of government. Continue reading >>
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06 February 2025

Ceci n’est pas un Ban?

On 19th January 2025, the ‘Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act’ became operative in the USA in respect of TikTok, routinely (but somehow deceptively) referred to as ‘TikTok ban’. I will not deal in detail here with the saga (which readers of this blog are already familiar with), but with the misalignment between legal form and political narrative: A vaguely formulated statute became a symbolical proxy for principled confrontation over the underlying values. Continue reading >>
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22 April 2024
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The First Italian Climate Judgement and the Separation of Powers

On 26th February 2024, in its Giudizio Universale decision, the Tribunal of Rome penned the first Italian climate judgement. Shortly after, on 9 April 2024, the ECtHR handed down its seminal trio of KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland, Duarte Agostinho v. Portugal and Others and Carême v. France. In this monumental string of cases, the ECtHR set the new standard for climate litigation in Europe, also regarding separation of powers. This invites a critical assessment of Giudizio Universale’s stance. Continue reading >>
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