Matteo Fermeglia is Assistant Professor of Climate Law and Governance at Amsterdam University, Faculty of Humanities and at the Amsterdam School for Transnational, European  and Regional Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Legal Sciences at the University of Udine, Italy. His Ph.D. Thesis focused on the legal aspects of the European Union Emission Trading System.

In 2017, he was visiting scholar at Columbia Law School, where he collaborated with the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investments. He was also visiting scholar at Copenhagen University, Graz University and Wyoming University. He regularly (co-) authors internationally peer-reviewed journal articles in the field of environmental and climate law. Matteo was awarded the Raúl Estrada-Oyuela Award for Emerging Scholars in Climate Law in 2017 by Lexxion publishers.

Matteo’s research interest relates more generally to the European Union’s climate change law and governance. More specifically, Matteo’s interest lies in the interplay between international economic law – in particular, international investment law – and the international and domestic climate change legal regimes. Matteo’s research interests relate also to climate change litigation, soils protection and decarbonization of the energy sector.