Salvatore Filippini La Rosa
Lawyer
After graduating from law school, he began working, as an international official for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), where he focused on refugee recognition and protection in European and African countries.
He has given several lectures on international and refugee law as part of the course for international observers at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, as well as in the advanced course in preparation for a diplomatic career, at the International University of Dubrovnik.
He also took part, as an observer on behalf of the OSCE, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, in the first elections held in Sarajevo after the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
In 1994, he joined the Genoa Bar Association, and began practicing, primarily, international law, commercial law, maritime law, and transportation law.
Meanwhile, he enrolled at New York Law School, New York, NY, where he majored in “entertainment law” and began an intense professional relationship and personal friendship with Prof. Seymour Feig, an expert in the subject.
He also conducts his professional activities, in and out of court, in the areas of industrial law, cultural property law and copyright law, with a focus on the art, publishing, theater, film and sports sectors, acting on behalf of, among others, museums, artists, gallery owners, auction houses, athletes, actors.
For a five-year period, he was coordinator and lecturer in the higher education courses in art law and cultural heritage law at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa.
He has been a lecturer in international refugee law at Poliedri School of Politics and Active Citizenship, traceable to the Society of Jesus.
He served, on behalf of the Union Internationale des Avocats – Institute for the Rule of Law, as an international observer during the trials in Turkey against lawyers who were members of the CHD association.
He has published numerous articles in legal journals on refugee law and due process law.