Marrella has an extensive background in international law. : he was invited to deliver a course at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2013. He specializes in International Economic Law and focuses primarily on international commercial contracts and investment arbitration also in connection with new human rights issues. He advises on the same matters and his scholarly writings have been cited by courts, arbitration, tribunals and commentators, including arbitral panels deciding cases under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce and other major international arbitration centers. Marrella is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Italian.
Past academic positions
In 2006, Marrella was appointed professeur invité at the University of Strasbourg. In 2007 and 2008, Prof. Marrella has served as vice-Director of the Harvard University-Venice program where he taught International Business Law. He was formerly Adjunct Professor of International Business Law at the IHEAL of the and lecturer at the Paris Institute of Comparative Law. Marrella also served as co-Director for the Wake Forest University School of Law Comparative Law Program in Venice. Marrella taught "The international Arbitral Process", Vanderbilt University Law School; International Business Transactions ; Derecho del comercio internacional in the Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico.
European Yearbook on Human Rights, Dir. by M. Nowak and W. Benedek, Neuer Wissenschaft Verlag, Vienna, Austria.
Contratto e Impresa, Cedam, Padova, dir. by Prof. Francesco Galgano.
Contratto e Impresa/Europa, Cedam, Padova, dir. by F. Galgano and M. Bin.
, Franco Angeli, Milan.
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Research interests Professor Marrella’s research interests cover International Law with particular emphasis on International Business and Investment Law; International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Methods as well as International Human Rights and areas of cross reference with Economic Law.
Publications
He has written extensively in the field of International Law. Among his writings there are:
Texts and monographs
Droit International by Prof. Fabrizio Marrella and Prof. Dominique Carreau, Pedone - Paris, 2012
Diritto e prassi del commercio internazionale, di Fabrizio Marrella e Francesco Galgano, in Trattato di diritto commerciale e di diritto pubblico dell’economia dir. by F. Galgano, Padova, Cedam, 2010, pp. XXIV-937.
Economic Globalisation and Human Rights,, EIUC series n.1, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Diritto del commercio internazionale, by Fabrizio Marrella & Francesco Galgano, 2 ed., Padova, Cedam, 2007, pp. XXIV-772.
Le opere d'arte tra cooperazione internazionale e conflitti armati, by F. Marrella, Collana del Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche dell’Università "Cà Foscari" di Venezia, Padova, Cedam, 2006.
La nuova lex mercatoria. Principi Unidroit ed usi dei contratti del commercio internazionale, in Trattato di diritto commerciale e di diritto pubblico dell’economia dir. by F. Galgano, pref. by H. Grigera Naòn, Padova, Cedam, 2003, pp. LXII-1001
Alle origini dell’arbitrato commerciale internazionale. L’arbitrato a Venezia tra Medioevo ed Età moderna, by F. Marrella and A. Mozzato), in Collana della Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale, Pref. by Andrea Giardina, Cedam, Padova, 2001.
He is also the author of more than 35 articles published in national and international peer-reviewed Law Journals.