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Profile
Massimo is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong. In 2017–2020, he worked as Associate Legal Officer at the International Court of Justice.
Massimo is a general international lawyer, with a particular interest in sources, law of the sea and international dispute settlement. His current research focuses on the formation and identification of customary international law, on which he is writing a monograph.
Massimo will be a Director of Studies at the Hague Academic of International Law in 2027.
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Qualifications
PhD (Cantab.)
LLM (Cantab.)
LLB (Milan) -
Appointments
Responsibilities
- Member, Advisory Board, Ocean Development & International Law (since 2021)
- Member, Academic Review Board, Cambridge International Law Journal (since 2018)
- Summary writer, International Law Reports (since 2015)
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Research Interests
- General International Law
- Sources of International Law
- Law of the Sea
- Settlement of International Disputes
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Selected Publications
Books
- Maritime Delimitation as a Judicial Process (Cambridge University Press 2019)
Journal Articles
- ‘Jurisdiction ratione materiae of the International Court of Justice in Compromissory Clause Cases’ (2023) 139 Law Quarterly Review (forthcoming)
- ‘Advisory Opinions of the International Court of Justice in Respect of Disputes’ (2023) 61 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law (forthcoming)
- ‘Enhancing Conflict Resolution “ASEAN Way”: The Dispute Settlement System of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership’ (2022) 13 Journal of International Dispute Settlement 98-120
- ‘Stability of Maritime Boundaries and the Challenge of Geographical Change: A Reply to Snjólaug Árnadóttir’ (2022) 35 Leiden Journal of International Law 379–395
- ‘Provisional Measures and the Link Requirement’ (2020) 19 Law & Practice of International Courts & Tribunals 174–196
- ‘Judges ad hoc of the International Court of Justice’ (2020) 33 Leiden Journal of International Law 467–493 (with Charles N. Brower)
- ‘Plausibility in the Provisional Measures Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice’ (2018) 31 Leiden Journal of International Law 641–668
- ‘Delimiting the Continental Shelf Beyond 200 Nautical Miles at the International Court of Justice: The Nicaragua v. Colombia Cases’ (2017) 16 Chinese Journal of International Law 137–173
- ‘Judicial Uncertainties concerning Territorial Sea Delimitation under Article 15 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea’ (2017) 66 International & Comparative Law Quarterly 589–623
- ‘Compliance with Provisional Measures Indicated by the International Court of Justice’ (2017) 8 Journal of International Dispute Settlement 22–55
- ‘The Advisory Jurisdiction of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Comments on the Request for an Advisory Opinion submitted by the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission’ (2016) 29 Leiden Journal of International Law 441–461
- ‘State Jurisdiction and Immunity of Warships in the ARA Libertad Case’ (2015) 58 Japanese Yearbook of International Law 336–355
- ‘Intimations of Unconstitutionality: The Supremacy of International Law and Judgment 238/2014 of the Italian Constitutional Court’ (2015) 78 Modern Law Review 1028–1041
Book Chapters
- ‘Binding Advisory Opinions’ in N. Tsagourias, R. Buchan and D. Franchini (eds.), The Changing Character of International Dispute Settlement: Challenges and Prospects (Cambridge University Press) (forthcoming)
Shorter Articles and Notes
- ‘How to Complicate a Simple Case: The Judgment on the Merits in Maritime Delimitation in the Indian Ocean (Somalia v. Kenya)’ (2022) 37 International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (forthcoming) (with Jessica Joly Hébert)
- ‘International Procedure between Past and Future – Procedural Developments in Law of the Sea Dispute Settlement in 2021’ (2022) 21 Law & Practice of International Courts & Tribunals 198-224 (with Nilüfer Oral)
- ‘Jurisdictional Challenges and Institutional Novelties – Procedural Developments in Law of the Sea Dispute Settlement in 2020’ (2021) 20 Law & Practice of International Courts & Tribunals 191–221 (with Nilüfer Oral)
- ‘The Croatia/Slovenia Arbitral Award of 29 June 2017: is there a Common Method for delimiting all Maritime Zones under International Law?’ (2017) 100 Rivista di Diritto Internazionale 1184–1190
- ‘The Road along the San Juan River is Paved with Good Intentions: Provisional Measures and the Quest for Compliance in the Costa Rica/Nicaragua Joined Cases’ (2016) 99 Rivista di Diritto Internazionale 179–183
- ‘Questions relating to the Seizure and Detention of Certain Documents and Data’ (2014) 3 Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law 616–624
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Others
Awards
- Prix Daniel Vignes 2020, Association Internationale du Droit de la Mer (for the article ‘Judicial Uncertainties concerning Territorial Sea Delimitation under Article 15 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea’ (2017) 66 International & Comparative Law Quarterly 589–623)
