Publications:


“Services and Investment in the EU - South Korea Free-Trade Area: Implications of a New Approach for GATS V Agreements and for Bilateral Investment Treaties”, co-authored with James Mathis, The Journal of World Investment & Trade, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Volume 13 (2012), p. 157–185.

“Fossil Fuel ‘Grading’ and Sustainability Criteria for Biofuels and Bioliquids under the EU Fuel Quality and Renewable Energy Directives: Implications for International Trade”, co-authored with Paolo R. Vergano, Global Trade and Customs Journal, Kluwer Law International, 2012, Volume 7, Issue 3, p. 92-102.

“Addressing the Solution of SPS and TBT Matters through Trade Negotiations”, in “Research Handbook on the WTO Agriculture Agreement: New and Emerging Issues in International Agricultural Trade Law”, Research Handbooks on the WTO Series, edited by Joseph McMahon and Melaku Geboye Desta. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd January 2012.

“Subsidies to Renewable Energy Sources and International Trade: Issues and Tools to Reconcile Trade Rules and Environmental Policies”, Global Trade and Customs Journal, 2010, Vol. 5, Issue 6, p. 223-236.

“Repertorio dell’attività giurisdizionale dell’Organizzazione Mondiale del Commercio”, Contratto e impresa / Europa, CEDAM, July-December 2007, Vol. 2, p. 1121-1149.

“Some Reflections from the WTO Mexico – Telecommunications dispute”, Contratto e impresa / Europa, CEDAM, Vol. 2/2006, p. 998-1013.

“Repertorio dell’attività giurisdizionale dell’Organizzazione Mondiale del Commercio”, Contratto e impresa / Europa, CEDAM, 2/2006, Vol. 2, p. 1015-1074.

EUGENIA COSTANZA LAURENZA

Eugenia Costanza Laurenza is an associate at the firm, where she deals with EU and international trade law. Eugenia’s main practice areas are WTO law and dispute settlement procedures, trade negotiations (bilateral and multilateral) in the areas of agriculture and services, sanitary and phytosanitary standards, technical barriers to trade, subsidies, and regional integration.

Eugenia graduated in law at the University of Rome, La Sapienza in 2001. She obtained an Erasmus Diploma at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and completed an LL.M in European and International Trade Law at the Universiteit van Amsterdam with distinction. Eugenia was admitted to the Italian bar in 2004 and is member of the Brussels Bar (“E” list).

Before joining the firm, Eugenia worked in a Brussels-based law firm specializing in EU and international trade law, where she was involved in a variety of projects on EU and WTO law and procedures, which included subsidies (both agricultural and on industrial products), anti-dumping and countervailing procedures in the EU, litigation (both before European Courts and at the WTO), sanitary and phytosanitary standards, technical barriers to trade, import licensing, market access questions and trade negotiations.  

Eugenia’s experience in international trade includes periods of work at the Trade Directorate-General of the European Commission in Brussels and at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva.

In recognition of her dispute settlement experience, Eugenia participated in 2007 as a panelist in the grand final panel of the oral round of the fifth edition of the ELSA (European Law Students Association) Moot Court Competition on WTO Law in Geneva.