Alberto Nicotina appointed Assistant Professor of European Law
10 September 2026
Congratulations to Alberto Nicotina for his new role within ACELG. Since September 2026, Alberto is an Assistant Professor of European Law at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests focus on federal dynamics within the EU, and on the role of European civil society in EU law and governance.
During the current academic year, he will also carry out a re:constitution fellowship on “strategic climate litigation as a strategy of democratic self-preservation”.
Alberto joined Amsterdam Law School in October 2023 as a junior lecturer of European Law at the PPLE College, and then moved to ACELG in September 2024 as a postdoctoral researcher within the ERC-funded project "Strategic Climate Litigation's Direct and Indirect Consequences for Democracy".
He holds a PhD in Law (Antwerp, 2024) and a Master in Law (Trento, 2018), and has held visiting positions at the European University Institute, and at the universities of Copenhagen, Madrid Complutense, Brussels ULB and Montpellier.