The Programme is delivered entirely in English. Knowledge of the English language is a prerequisite and must be proven in the application form with supporting documents.

The Programme lasts one full year with the following timetable:

• Distance learning phase: from 1 November 2024 to 17 March 2025;
• Face-to-Face phase: from 18 March to 6 June 2025;
• Preparation and submission of the Final Essay: the outline of the dissertation is to be presented in Turin by the end of the Face-to-Face phase and it is to be completed by the end of October 2025 at the latest.

The residential phase of the Programme will be held at the Campus of the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin, Italy.

Class attendance is compulsory.

A limited number of partial fellowships may become available from sponsors in order to facilitate the participation of deserving candidates from developing and transition countries who are unable to meet the full tuition fees.

Participants are therefore expected to finance their participation as much as possible. The admission criteria will take into consideration the participant’s self-financing potential as well as her/his educational and professional profiles. In the application form, participants are kindly requested to indicate the portion of the tuition fees that they are able to finance.

The tuition fee is Euro 9,400.

The fee includes:

• Programme development and management;
• Teaching equipment, training materials and documentation;
• Use of training facilities and support services.

Board, lodging, travel expenses, transports and personal expenses for the period in Turin are not included in the cost of participation.

The cost of accommodation (bed and breakfast) on the ITCILO campus during the 12-week residential part of the programme is €4,510. Lunches and dinners are not included and are to be paid directly by the participants according to consumption.

Off-campus accommodation is also available. The Masters secretariat will provide telephone and email contact details for interested participants.

Applicants interested in participating in this programme should complete and submit the application form available on the website (https://oarf2.itcilo.org/MSTF/A9717068/en), together with the requested documents. 

Deadline for the first round of applications: 29 March 2024.

Deadline for the second round of applications: 24 June 2024.

Deadline for the third round of applications: 20 September 2024.

A limited number of partial scholarships is available for students from developing countries only.

Important: only complete application forms will be considered during the candidate’s selection process.

• Amy Schmitz, The Ohio State University
• Alberto Odennino, University of Turin
• Anna Noël, Etude Anna Noël
• Anna Veneziano , UNIDROIT
• Ben CZAPNIK, National University of Singapore
• Bjorn Nissen, Shift Happens
• Carlo Cantore, WTO
• Carlos Correa, South Center - University of Buenos Aires
• Carlo Di Nicola , UNIDROIT
• Cristina Poncibò , University of Turin
• Davide Rovetta , International Trade Advisor, Brussels
• Elena D'Alessandro, University of Turin
• Elena Gilardi, University of Turin
• Enrico Bonadio, University of London
• Enrico Canzio, Chief Counsel Banking Operations at
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• Gabriele Ruscalla, ICC- Paris
• Gianmaria Ajani, Univerisity of Turin
• Giuseppe Casale, ITCILO
• Isabelle Hering, Etude Hering
• Lorenza Mola, UniTo
• Luca Castellani, UNCITRAL
• Luca Meduri , BasicNet
• Ozlem Gurses, King’s College London
• Luca Rubini , UniTo
• Maria Belén Gracia, International trade law and policy expert
• Martin Ebers, University of Tartu (Estonia)
• Marva Corley-Coulibaly, ILO Geneva
• Mateo Ferrero , WTO
• Monica Canafoglia, UNCITRAL
• Niccolo Landi, Landi Legal
• Patrick O'Malley, Univeristy of Navarra
• Philine Wehling, UNIDROIT
• Pierre Tercier, International Court of Arbitration of the ICC
• Pietro Ortolani, Radboud University, Netherlands
• Reka Papp, Counsel, Pierre Tercier Bureau, Fribourg
• Riccardo Ventura, Legal counsel
• Roberto Caranta, University of Turin
• Rupa Ganguli , International Trade Specialist
• Stefano Azzali, Secretary General of the Milan Chamber of Arbitration
• Zhaokang JIANG , GSC Potomac

Gianmaria AJANI

Professor of Comparative private law, UniTo

Roberto CARANTA

Professor of Administrative Law, UniTo

Luca CASTELLANI

Legal officer, UNCITRAL

Mario COMBA

Professor of Comparative public law, UniTo

Elena D’ALESSANDRO 

Full Professor of Civil Procedure, Univeristy of Turin

Mario FASANI

Activity Manager and Programme Officer, TSD, ITCILO

Silvia FERRERI

Full Professor of Comparative Private Law, University of Turin

Vincenzo FUCCI

Activity Manager and Programme Officer, TSD, ITCILO

Elena GILARDI

Research Fellow, IUSE

Lorenza MOLA

Professor of International law - UniTo

Alberto ODDENINO

Professor of International law, UniTo

Cristina PONCIBÒ

Professor of Comparative private law, UniTo

Pierre TERCIER

Emeritus Professor, University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Honorary Chairman, ICC International Court of Arbitration

Anna VENEZIANO

Deputy Director, UNIDROIT

Franz WERRO

Professor of Law, University of Fribourg-Switzerland and Georgetown University Law Centre-United States        

Andrea Piletta Massaro

Andrea received his degree in law summa cum laude, with academic distinction, from the University of Turin with a final dissertation titled 'Competition Defence, Private Enforcement Tools: Are They Effective?'.

Since then, he collaborated as trainee lawyer in the Global Transactions department of the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP's Milan office. He also worked as law clerk at the Turin Court of Appeal. He is admitted to the Italian bar.

Now he is a PhD candidate at the University of Trento, with a dissertation about the reforms needed in competition law vis-à-vis digitalisation, with a specific focus on the goals of antitrust rules. He also works as teaching assistant in both the Universities of Turin and Trento. In particular, he is involved in the Private Law, Comparative Law, EU Competition Law and EU Law courses.

He published articles in the fields of private comparative law and competition law, and he spoke at various conferences. His areas of interest are the impact of digitalisation and the green transition on competition law, private enforcement of competition law and collective redress.

International public law: prof. Lorenza Mola

Lorenza Mola has been the Scientific Director of the Master of Law in International Trade Law since the academic year 2018-2019 and was on the board of coordinators in the previous four editions of the Master. Lorenza is an Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Turin, Department of Law, where she teaches international and EU law, and where she is a member of the board of the PhD in Law, the Individual and the Market. Lorenza holds a PhD in International Economic Law from “Bocconi” University (Milan) and an M.Sc. in European Studies (External Relations) from the Institut d’Etudes Européennes of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She has authored a book on national security in international investment law (2010, in Italian) and published extensively in Italian and international scientific journals and edited books; her current research fields are in international economic law, international human rights law, and the law of EU external relations.

International contracts: prof. Cristina Poncibò

Cristina Poncibò is Professor of Comparative Private Law at the Law Department of the University of Turin, Italy and Visiting Professor at the Georgetown Law Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London. She is Fellow of the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (Stanford Law School and Vienna School of Law). She teaches Comparative Law, Contracts, EU Competition Law, and Blockchain and the Law. Her most recent edited books include: Contracting and Contract Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Hart, 2021, forthcoming, with M. Ebers and M. Zou) and The Cambridge Handbook of Smart Contracts, Blockchain Technology and Digital Platforms (Cambridge University Press, 2019, with L. Matteo and M. Cannarsa).

Cristina is a member of the International Association of Comparative Law and Delegate of the Law Department (sponsor institution) to the American Association of Comparative Law. She is also a member of ELI, Juris Diversitas and the Law & Society Association. She regularly acts as an expert for European institutions and international organizations and she is a coordinator of the Master in International Trade Law, co-organised with ITC-ILO, in cooperation with Unicitral and Unidroit. Cristina is a graduate of the University of Turin (MA) and Florence (PhD) and was an associate in an international law firm in the city of London and an intern in the Italian Competition Authority. In her career, she has been a Marie Curie IEF Fellow (Université Panthéon-Assas) and a Max Weber Fellow (EUI).

Arbitration and ADR: prof. Elena D’Alessandro

Elena D’Alessandro is full professor of European and Italian Civil Procedure at the University of Turin, Law Department. She obtained a Ph. D. in Civil Procedure at the University “La Sapienza” Rome (2004), a fellowship of the Alexander VonHumboldt Foundation (2009) and a fellowship of the German DAAD (2011-2012, 2013).

She has been visiting professor at the University of Bielefeld (2010) and Heidelberg (2011, DAAD Heidelberg Program zur Förderung internationales Gastwissenschaftlerinnen und Gastwissenschaftler) and visiting scholar at Queen Mary Law School, Columbia Law School, McGill School of Law, Max Planck Institute for Private International Law and Comparative Law and Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. In the Fall semester 2019 she has been co-director of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (London).

She is currently coordinating the EU DG Justice Project named “LAWtrain (JUST-JTRA-EJTR-AG-2017). 

Her main research interests concern Transnational Litigation and European Civil Procedure.

According to the Italian University System, there are two types of Masters: 1st level master and 2nd level master.

The only difference between them is the minimum educational background and academic qualification requirements to be enrolled in these masters: to be enrolled on a 1st level Master's, the minimum requirement is a bachelor degree (3 years); while for a 2nd level Master, the minimum requirement is a post-graduate degree (3 +2 years).

Therefore, pursuing our 1st level Master in International Trade Law, a first level master diploma will be awarded.

A First Level Master does not give access to PhD programmes. Admission requirements to PhD programmes vary from country to country, as these depend on the university system of the country where the PhD programme is held. For more information on the minimum requisites required, please directly contact the university offering the PhD programme you are interested in. As a general rule, for instance, a three-year bachelor's degree plus a first level master’s degree are not considered sufficient for doctoral studies at the University of Turin: both a bachelor’s and a two-year master's degree (second level) are usually required. 

You should attach the documents requested in the Supporting Documents section of the on-line application form. Official documents should be scanned and uploaded. The compulsory documents include a copy of:

• motivation letter;
• recent curriculum vitae;
• diploma of university studies;
• transcripts of university studies;
• request for partial fellowship (if applicable)
• certificates (TOEFL / IELTS) or other evidence of English language knowledge if not mother tongue.

Important: The application form will be considered only if supported by the above listed documents.

You are expected to submit your application form not later than the 23 September 2022. Early applications are encouraged as eligible candidates will be accepted on "first come first served" basis. Applications will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee on regular basis and feedback will be provided within one month.

The selection criteria take into consideration candidates' education and professional profile as well as their self-financial potential. 

• The Centre may agree to lodge accompanying persons on its campus subject to facility availability; priority is given to participants.
• Children under the age of 18 can be admitted only if accompanied by an additional adult person who can take proper care of them during their stay.
• No assistance in obtaining visas can be provided. 
• Accompanying persons are responsible for their own illness and accident insurance covering the "main travel" (from/to their country of origin), their stay at the Centre, excursions and any study tours.
• Only previously authorized visitors can access the campus. To both receive visits or have a guest for more days, it is necessary to request an authorization to the FIS Security Unit through the course secretary or manager at least one week in advance and upon the submission of a valid ID card of the visitor/guest. Otherwise students can meet visitors at the control room and without entering the campus.

According to ITCILO rules, accommodation is covered from the day before the beginning of the course  and to the day after the end of the course.

Any exception to the rule above should be approved by the Programme Manager.

No. During the residential part in Turin, you can decide to stay outside the ITCILO campus. However, we would recommend to look for a place not far from the campus because the training sessions start at 9 AM every day.

The cost of accommodation and subsistence during the residential phase in our facilities payable in advance by the participant or his/her sponsoring organization.

The accommodation includes a single bedroom, laundry service and breakfast on the ITCILO Campus during the residential phase.

You can take a virtual tour of the ITCILO campus here: https://campuslife.itcilo.org/virtual-tour