Andrea Tognoni (Italian, 25 years old), is a Spain-based lawyer, admitted to the Barcelona Bar in December 2011 after graduating in Law from the University of Barcelona the same year.

Along his academic career he has focussed on international law, human rights and humanitarian law, especially on the protection and promotion of human rights in Europe, and by European Institutions and bodies abroad. In 2010/2011 he was also an exchange student at University of Paris I Panthéon – Sorbonne, France, and collaborated with the work of the Permanent People’s Tribunal during its session on “The European Union and transnational corporations in Latin America: Policies, instruments and actors complicit in violations of the Peoples’ Rights” in Madrid, and he was involved in the Barcelona Session of the Russel Tribunal for Palestine on the “Complicities and omissions of the European Union and its member states”.

Fluent at a working level in five languages, he is also involved in translating and editing some of François Rigaux’s recent writings on the evolution of international law and people’s rights from the Chart of Alger, and the juridical challenges that are arising in this new millennium.

The underlying idea of this initiative, as well as of Andrea’s research work, is that of enhancing and enforcing human rights’ protection through an expansion of the paradigms of this branch of law and its effectivity to other domains of international law, economic law and corporate law in particular as well as through a re-formulation or re-interpretation of the categories of subjects and objectivity that are obviously and increasingly showing their limitedness at the time of protecting collective legitimate interests and rights, as well as their weakness at the time of preventing and discouraging human rights’ violations.

In 2012 Andrea lived in Canada where he worked as a legal assistant at Sara Riboldi Barrister, Solicitor & Notary Public, in Toronto, Ontario, a law firm that deals mainly with international private law issues between Canada and Italy. He also was one of the participants of the Summer School on European Law and Human Rights at the Academy of European Law of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, the institution that was co-founded by Professor Antonio Cassese (former president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia), and that is now one of the most active research centres for Human Rights in Europe, under the direction of Dr. Francesco Francioni.

He is now enrolled in a Masters of Laws (LL.M) on International Public Law at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands.