Maria Anna is a Lecturer in Commercial Law at the Leeds’ School of Law (since January 2020), after having served as lecturer for three years at the University of Birmingham. She has held Post-Doctoral Research Fellow positions at the Durham Law School (in the context of the ERC-funded research project on “Neo-Federalism”) and the University of Bern after graduating in political sciences (BA) and International Relations (MA) from LUISS University in Rome, She obtained a second MA degree in international law and economics (at the World Trade Institute WTI, University of Bern) and a PhD in International Law at the University of Zurich Law School.