He started teaching in 2009 as associate professor of law at
HEC Paris; since 2011 he is
Jean Monnet Professor of
EU Law at HEC Paris where he teaches European Union Law, EU Affairs and Advocacy, as well as Global Risk Regulation.[4]
In 2013 he became Global Clinical Professor of Law at
New York University School of Law where he established and serves as faculty director the HEC-NYU EU Public Interest Clinic, a program to train new public interest lawyers and civic advocates.[5] He is permanent visiting professor at the
University of Tokyo, School of Public Policy and at the
College of Europe.[6]
Alemanno has also been guest professor at
St. Gallen University, where he led the Public Affairs, Advocacy and Law module at the MBL Executive Programme for over a decade.[7]
Advocacy
Alemanno regularly provides advice to a variety of NGOs as well as governments and international organizations on various aspects of
European Union law, international regulatory co-operation,
international trade and global
health law. He sits on the board of several civil society organisations, such as
European Alternatives, Access Info Europe, Riparte il Futuro, Diritto di Sapere, as well as the citizens’ pan-EU campaigning movements We Move and Vox-Europe.
Together with
Frank Biancheri he co-launched
Newropeans, one of the first transnational political party in 2008.[8]
Alberto Alemanno was involved in the registration of the first European Citizen Initiative aimed at eliminating the international roaming charges in 2013 (
One Single Tariff)[citation needed] and provided advice to several others.
In 2016, he prepared a report for
WWF advocating reform of the Common Agricultural Policy.[citation needed]
In 2018 he was one of the initiators of the campaign Real Representation as Europeans for the
2019 European Parliament election with the We Move slogan.[8]
Alemanno campaigned and drafted the first EU directive[citation needed] aimed at protecting
whistleblowers in the European Union. His text was used by the EU Commission in 2018[citation needed] when putting foreword its proposal.[19][20]
In 2020 Alemanno was part of the citizens committee that started the
European Citizens Initiative, Voters without Borders, calling the EU to confer full political rights to all citizens regardless where they reside.[21]
He provided
pro bono legal assistance to the ECI initiators before, during and after the signature collection against reauthorization of
glyphosate in Europe.[22]
He lodged a collective complaint on behalf of the
European Youth Forum to challenge the institutionalization of unpaid internships in Belgium before the
Council of Europe.[23]
European Young Leaders (EYL40) by the "40 under 40" run by
Friends of Europe in 2013[28]
Media
He has published in leading international law journals, such as the International Journal of Constitutional Law, the Harvard International Law Journal and the Common Market Law Review, and authored books with university publishers and edited volumes. He’s the author of more than 40 articles.[29] He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Risk Regulation.[30] He contributes to scholarly blogs, including Verfassungsblog, and the Italian legal blog Diritti Comparati, which he co-founded.
Academic and civil society initiatives
Alemanno created and participated in different initiatives combining academia and NGOs.
List of initiatives
EU Public Interest Clinic,[31] together with HEC Paris and NYU School of Law. The Clinic brings together students from NYU Law School and HEC Paris to help non-government organizations (NGOs)
eLabEurope[32] which promotes civic engagement and participation in Europe through a mixture of academic research, advocacy and training.
The Good Lobby[33] aimed at fostering active citizenship and accountability via citizen-lobbyists
Summer Academy in Global Law & Policy],[34] which has more than 400 international alumni since its inception in 2009 and was transformed into The Lobbying Summer Academy in 2018.
TEN[35] – The European Nudge Network in 2014. Its goal is to offer insight into the behaviour of organizations throughout Europe.[36][37]
Books
Reinventing Legal Education (Cambridge University Press, 2018) ( with L. Khadar)
^Alemanno, Alberto; Lapp, Christopher; Delalande, Agathe; Khadar, Lamin; Darbishire, Helen; Bartlett Quintanilla, Pam (6 June 2015). "The EU Public Interest Clinic and Access Info Europe Present: A Complaint to the European Ombudsman Regarding Judicial Transparency".
SSRN2636877.