Biography

Lorenzo Palestini is a lecturer at the MIDS, where he teaches inter-State judicial and arbitral dispute settlement, and carries out research as part of the Geneva Centre for International Dispute Settlement (CIDS).

Prior to joining the MIDS, Lorenzo was a teaching assistant at the Graduate Institute’s International Law Department and the University of Geneva’s Criminal Law Department.

He has been part of the legal team tasked with representing Colombia at the International Court of Justice for the last five years.

In 2019, he defended his Ph.D. on the Protection of Third States Legal Interests in Maritime Delimitation Proceedings at the Graduate Institute. The book was published in Larcier International Law Collection in 2020.