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Carlotta Garofalo

Postdoctoral Researcher · University of Bari

Carlotta Garofalo is a comparative constitutional law scholar specializing in climate law and litigation. She is particularly interested in the relationship between legal mobilization and social change, Latin American constitutionalism, and in the ethics of strategic litigation and movements' lawyering. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, within CLIMPACT, where she works on the Legal, Judicial and Policy area, in particular with regard to the policy impacts of Government-Target Litigation. Before joining CLIMPACT, Carlotta pursued a doctorate in law at the University of Graz (2025), where her dissertation examined climate lawsuits against States in Europe and Latin America through a comparative socio-legal lens. She was a Fellow of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme DK "Climate Change", funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and Clim:Law Graz. Her doctoral research included visiting periods at the Strathclyde Centre on Environmental Law and Governance (SCELG), PUC-Rio, and the Fundação Getúlio Vargas. She subsequently completed a legal traineeship at the Centre for International Environmental Law (CIEL) in Geneva, contributing to CIEL's engagement in the ICJ Advisory Opinion on States' obligations in respect of climate change. Her work has been featured in the European Law Journal, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Intersentia, Nomos, and Eleven Publishing. She holds a Master’s Degree in International, European and Comparative Law (cum laude) from the University of Trento.