Fernanda Nicola
Assistant Professor of Law
Office: Room 390
Phone: 202-274-4417
E-mail: fnicola@wcl.american.edu
Fernanda Giorgia Nicola joined the WCL faculty in Fall of 2006. She is an expert in European and Comparative Law, the law of the European Union, Contracts and Tort Law. Prior to teaching at the WCL, Fernanda was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the New England School of Law. She has also taught at Harvard Law School and the University of Turin Law School at the ILO Training Center of Turin. She has been a summer associate and law clerk at Goodwin Procter, LLP in Boston, a research assistant at Harvard Law School, and a trainee attorney at Studio Legale Ferreri in Turin, Italy. In 1995, she was an intern at the European Parliament in the Civil Rights, Civil Liberties Committee; and in 1996, at the Council of Europe, Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly.
Professor Nicola is currently a candidate to receive a S.J.D. from Harvard Law School and she has earned the following degrees: A Ph.D. in Comparative Law from Trento University, Italy; A LL.M. from Harvard Law School; Laurea in Legge (J.D. Equivalent) from the University of Turin Law School in Italy; A Postgraduate in International Trade Law, European University Institute of Turin; Laurea in Scienze Politiche (B.A. in Political Sciences) from the University of Turin; A Certificat d'Etudes Politiques in International Relations, from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Sciences Politiques, Strasbourg (France); Academy of European Law, European University Institute of Florence (E.U.I.), EC Law and Human Rights.
Currently Teaching
Degrees & Universities
- S.J.D., Harvard Law School 2007 (S.J.D. Candidate)
- Ph.D., Trento University, Italy 2006
- L.L.M., Harvard Law School 2002
- Law Degree, University of Turin 2000 (Laurea in Legge (Law Degree))
- B.A., University of Turin 1996 (Laurea in Scienze Politiche)
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Selected Publications- Fernanda Nicola, Book Review: Steven Weatherill, European Consumer Law and Policy, Oxford Y.B. European L. (Spring 2008).
- Fernanda Nicola & Ingrid Nifosi-Sutton, Beyond Monetary Damages: Assessing New Trends before the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice, Hum. Rights Br. (Winter 2007).
- Fernanda Nicola, Reparations: A Comparative Perspective, 56 Am. U. L. Rev. 1377 (2007).
- Fernanda Nicola, Per Una Nuova Prospettiva sull’Integrazione Europea: I Profili Distributive dell’Armonizzazione, Rivista Critica del Diritto Privato (Nov. 2006).
- Fernanda Nicola & Ugo Mattei, A ‘Social Dimension’ in European Private Law? The Call for Setting a Progressive Agenda, 41 New Eng. L. Rev. 1 (2006). SSRN Link
- Fernanda Nicola & Fabio Marchetti, Constitutionalizing Tobacco: The Ambiguous Shift in European Federalism, 46 Harv. Intl. L.J. 507 (2005). SSRN Link
- Fernanda Nicola & Anna di Robilant, Book Review: W. BROWN AND J. HALLEY EDS., LEFT LEGALISM/LEFT CRITIQUE (2002), Il Liberalismo alle prese con identitá e redistribuzione: Le critiche al rights discourse da parte della sinistra Americana, Rivista Critica del Diritto Privato (Dec. 2004).
- Fernanda Nicola, Book Review: James Gordley, ed., The Enforceability of Promises in European Contract Law, 44 Harv. Intl. L.J. 597 (2003).
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Selected Works in Progress
- Fernanda Nicola, Another View on European Integration: Distributive Stakes in the Harmonization of European Law, in Progressive Lawyering (Clare Dalton & Dan Danielsen, forthcoming 2006).
- Fernanda Nicola, Antologia sul Feminisimo Giuridico Statunitense (Trans.: A Reader in American Feminist Jurisprudence) (Anna di Robilant, Fernanda G. Nicola and Bianca Gardella Tedeschi, eds., Carocci forthcoming 2008).
- Fernanda Nicola, Comparisons Within: Local Government, Spaces and Distribution, European Union L. (forthcoming 2008).
- Fernanda Nicola, Where is Comparative Family Law?, in From Exceptionalism to Critical Approaches ( forthcoming).
- Fernanda Nicola, The Selective Reception of Law and Economics and Legal Process in European Legal Thought., (forthcoming).
- Fernanda Nicola, Constitutional Asymmetry in the Formation of European Private Law, Cordozo J. Intl. & Comp. L. (forthcoming Spring 2008).
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Selected Presentations
- Fernanda Nicola, Paper Presentation, Comparisons Within: Local Government, Spaces and Distribution in European Union Law ("Lightning Rounds,” Faculty Speaker Series of the American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., Sept. 18, 2008).
- Fernanda Nicola, Presentation, Comparative Local Government: Spaces and Distribution in EU law (Georgetown Law Center, Faculty Speaker Series, Wash., D.C., Apr. 17, 2008).
- Fernanda Nicola, Presentation, The Rise and Fall of the European Civil Code (Conference Organized by the Center for North American Studies (AU) on “A North American Legal System: It is Possible? Desirable?," American University Washington College of Law, Feb. 16, 2008).
- Fernanda Nicola, Presentation, The Genealogy and the Influence of The Access to Justice Literature in Europe and the United States (Global Conceptions on Access to Justice, Section on Comparative Law, AALS Conference, N.Y.C., N.Y., Jan. 4, 2008).
- Fernanda Nicola, Presentation, La Armonizacion del Mercado Unico: Tensiones Federales y Sociales en el Modelo Europeo (El Consejo Nacional de la Judicatura and El Programa de Apoyo a la Integracion Regional Centroamericana (PAIRCA), El. Sal., Nov,. 21, 2007).
- Fernanda Nicola, Lecture, El Derecho de La Integracion Europea (El Consejo Nacional de la Judicatura and El Programa de Apoyo a la Integracion Regional Centroamericana (PAIRCA), El. Sal., Nov. 19 - 22, 2007).
- Fernanda Nicola, Speech, Where is Comparative family law? From Exceptionalism to Critical Approaches (Conference on Up Against Family Law Exceptionalism, Harvard Law School and Toronto Law School, Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 15, 2007).
- Fernanda Nicola, Speech, Comparisons Within: European Local Government Law (Conference on Global Law in Comparative Perspective, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., June 16 - 27, 2007).
- Fernanda Nicola, Speech, Final Remarks in a Comparative Perspective (Interschool Junior Faculty Workshop on Poverty Law, American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., June 1, 2007).
- Fernanda Nicola, , Methodologies in Comparative Family Law (Conference on Comparative Family Law, American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., Apr. 15, 2007).
- Fernanda Nicola, Presentation, European Consumer Protection: Challenges and Possibilities (Conference on The European Union, a Model for the U.S.? Assessing fifty Years of the Treaty of Rome (1957-2007), American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., Mar. 28, 2007).
- Fernanda Nicola, Presentation, European Consumer Protection: Market or Social Citizenship for European Integration? (Rethinking Ideology & Strategy: Progressive Lawyering, Globalization and Markets, Northeastern University, Bos., Mass., Jan. 26, 2007).
- Fernanda Nicola, Presentation, The City as a Legal Concept in EU law (Law and Society Conference, Balt., Md., July 2006).
- Fernanda Nicola, Presentation, The Reception of Law and Economics in European Adjudication (Harvard International Law Journal Conference, Cambridge, Mass., Mar. 2006).
- Fernanda Nicola, Presentation, Socialization of the Market or Marketization of the Social? The Role of Private Law in European Integration (International PhD in Law and Economics, University of Turin, Torino, Italy, Oct. 27, 2005).
- Fernanda Nicola, Presentation, Anti-Formalism in the Legal Scholarship of Rodolfo Sacco (The Relationship between the Modes of Legal Rationality and Contexts of Production of Legal Discourse, ELRC, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., Apr. 20, 2005).
- Fernanda Nicola, Presentation, Rethinking the Role of Legal Scholarship in the Harmonization of European Private Law (Comparative Visions of Global Public Order, Hosted by the Harvard International Law Journal, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., Mar. 5 - 6, 2005).
- Fernanda Nicola, Presentation, Multilevel Governance Alliances in European Contract Law (New World Legal Orders Conference: New Approaches Meet New Worlds of law, Toronto Law School, Toronto, Can., Feb. 17, 2004).
