Dr Marco Odello

Senior Lecturer in Law
Doctor in Law & Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (Madrid); LLM (Nottingham); Dott.Giur.(Rome); FHEA (UK); PDHD (Mexico City); Dipl.Dev.Studies (Rome); Ciedhu (Strasbourg). Photograph of Dr Marco Odello.

Contact

Email: mmo@aber.ac.uk
Office: Room D19, Hugh Owen Building, Penglais Campus
Phone: + 44 01970 622571
Personal Web Site:https://sites.google.com/site/marcoeodello

Teaching Areas

Dr Odello teaches the following modules at Undergraduate and Postgraduate level:

  • Public International Law
  • International Human Rights: Theories and Remedies
  • European Law
  • Comparative Public Law
  • Research Methodology (Research PG)

He is module co-ordinator of International Human Rights: Theories and Remedies, Public International Law and Comparative Public Law.

He is the Director of the LLM (DL) in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.

He is regularly invited to give lectures and presentations in international teaching and training programmes, including the NATO school, Oberammergau; the International and European Doctoral Seminar at the University of Nice; the LLM in International Criminal Justice, University of Turin and UNICRI. His areas of teaching include International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law and International Refugee Law.

 

Research

Dr Odello has a general research interest on Public International Law, with specific attention to issues concerning international human rights, humanitarian law and the law of international organisations.

Present research activities include:

  • The co-ordination of a co-edited publication on Armed Forces and International Jurisdictions (Intersentia);
  • The co-ordination of a co-edited publication on American Sub-regional organisations (TMC Asser Press); 
  • A wider research project on the Inter-American Human Rights System (TMC Asser Press);
  • A book on refugee law in Italian (Franco Angeli Publ.).

 

Biography

Professional Experience

Dr Odello has taught International and Comparative Law, International Organisations, International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, at the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico City, and at the University of Piura (Peru).  He has been a Researcher at the European Public Law Center (Athens), and at the Centre for Conflict and Security Law, University of Nottingham. He has been a guest lecturer at the Central University of Venezuela (Caracas), at the University of Maracaibo (Venezuela), at the University of Oviedo and Valencia (Spain), at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands), and at Swansea University.  He has worked and co-operated with international institutions, such as the Italian Committee for Unicef (Rome), the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (Rome), the Institute for University Cooperation (Rome), the College universitaire Henry Dunant (Geneva), and the International Institute of Humanitarian Law (San Remo).  Between 2000 and 2003 he was an expert consultant for the University of Bologna in the EU Tempus Project 'Towards a European Model Judge'.

Present Activities

He is a member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, and member of the Training Advisory Group (Italy), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), Fellow of the University of Cagliari (Italy), General Editor of The Cambrian Law Review, Convenor of the International Law Research Forum, and Deputy Director of the Centre for European Studies (Aberystwyth).  He is member of the UK Network on Minority and Group Rights.  He is one of the Principal Investigators in the EU sponsored Research Project on Parental Rights in Child Education.

Languages

Italian, Spanish, French

Staff Publications

For a detailed list of publications see https://sites.google.com/site/marcoeodello/publications