Research Team & Fellows
Climpact brings together a core research team and the early-career researchers of the Climpact Fellows Programme, working on the empirical study of climate litigation and its impacts.
Research Team
Dr. Giuseppe NaglieriPrincipal Investigator, University of BariDr. Giuseppe Naglieri (Bari, June 23rd 1994) currently serves as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Comparative Public Law at the Aldo Moro University of Bari, where he teaches Comparative Constitutional Justice and Comparative Climate Change Law and Litigation. In 2023 he received the national scientific qualification from the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research to serve as an Associate Professor of Comparative Law. Dr. Naglieri is the Principal Investigator of the FIS (Italian Fund for Science) Starting Grant Project CLIMPACT – Charting the Landscape of Climate Litigation Impacts: An Interdisciplinary Framework and Open Access Database, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (funding: 1 million euros). He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Public Law from the University of Bari and a Ph.D. in Legal and Social Sciences from the University of Málaga (Spain), both awarded cum laude. Prior to his current role, he served as Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Aldo Moro University of Bari. He has furthered his research internationally as a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law in Heidelberg, at the University of Graz, at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, the University of Barcelona and at the Constitutional Tribunal of Spain. Dr. Naglieri's research is supported by his involvement in major international projects, including the COST Action SHiFT (Social Sciences and Humanities for Transformation and Climate Resilience) and the Canadian SSHR-CRSH funded LEXIS Project. He is a member of the Climate Change Law Specialist Group of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and the Global Toolbox on Corporate Climate Litigation at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL). He is the author of two monographs and of several papers. His main research interests lie in comparative constitutional justice and climate law and litigation.View profile 
Dr. Carlotta GarofaloPostdoctoral Researcher, University of BariCarlotta 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.View profile 
Dr. Enrico BuonoPostodctoral Researcher, University of BariEnrico Buono (Naples, November 17th 1988) is a summa cum laude Ph.D. in Comparative Law and Integration Processes (Second University of Naples). He achieved the National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in Comparative Law with unanimous consent. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, within CLIMPACT, where he works on the Legal, Judicial and Policy area, in particular with regard to the judicial impacts of Government-Target Litigation; he has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Perugia and Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, and a visiting researcher at the Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo in La Paz, Bolivia, while working for the Tribunal Constitucional Plurinacional in Sucre. For his works on Environmental Constitutionalism, Enrico won the SIRD Younger Comparatists 2022 Prize, awarded by the Italian Society for Research in Comparative Law (SIRD). He has been the national coordinator of the Environmental Constitutionalism Observatory (OCA) at DPCE Online, a Class-A comparative law journal, and co-director of the Future Earth Research School on Law, Finance, and Litigation, organized by the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change. He co-designed three EU-funded Jean Monnet Modules on citizens’ assemblies for climate change (ECO-PoLeIS, University of Perugia), gender-differentiated climate vulnerability (GIFT, University of Naples Federico II) and the legal challenges of the twin transition (CS-TWIN, EPLO).View profile 
Costanza AzzuppardiPostdoctoral Researcher, University of BariCostanza Azzuppardi is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology at the CLIMPACT project (University of Bari), where she investigates how climate litigation shapes public opinion, media narratives, and civil society. She is also a PhD candidate in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence), affiliated with COSMOS – The Centre on Social Movement Studies. Her doctoral work examines how the Italian climate-justice movement constructs and circulates its political message on Instagram. Her research expertise spans climate movement communication and the visual analysis of digital media content.View profile 
Faculty & Researchers
Dr. Luca Dell'AttiTenure-Track Assistant Professor, University of BariLuca Dell’Atti is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Public Law in the Department of Law at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, where he teaches Regional and Local Government Law. He holds a Ph.D. in Legal Principles and Institutions between Global Markets and Fundamental Rights from the same university. His doctoral thesis was on multilevel government and State–regions cooperation in Italy. His research covers multilevel governance and regionalism, forms of government, and participatory and digital democracy. More recently it has turned to the rights of future generations and the constitutional side of the ecological transition. He was Principal Investigator of the ERC SEEDS UNIBA project “H.O.P.E. – Heightening Online Participation in Europe”. He was also a visiting researcher at the University of Edinburgh, Northumbria University and the Universitat de Barcelona. His monograph Teoria e prassi del governo multilivello (Maggioli, 2019) won the 2020 “Sergio P. Panunzio” First Book Prize of the Italian Association of Constitutional Law Scholars. In 2023 he obtained the National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor of Constitutional Law.View profile 
Prof. Maria DicosolaAssociate Professor, University of BariAssociate Professor of Comparative Public Law, with extensive academic and research experience in comparative public law, minority rights, and citizenship, as well as in-depth knowledge of European constitutional dynamics. Her research on minority rights in the Western Balkans and European citizenship, with a focus on integration processes and EU conditionality, offers a solid theoretical framework to address the legal and institutional challenges posed by climate migration. She has coordinated the Erasmus Intensive Programme "The Parliaments of Europe in Democracy Promotion and Constitutional Transitions" and has participated in numerous international conferences on democracy, human rights, and citizenship.View profile 
Prof. Pamela MartinoFull Professor or Comparative Public Law, University of BariFull Professor of Comparative Public Law, with expertise in the fields of migration policies, climate-induced migration, climate litigation, citizenship, constitutional justice, multilevel judicial dialogue, multilevel protection of fundamental rights, minorities, Parliament and decision-making processes. She has led academic curricula development on legal sciences related to immigration and human rights, fostering connections with policymakers and stakeholders regarding issues related to migrant management. She teaches courses on Comparative public law and Intercultural policies and national identities. She is the Co-Coordinator of the course aimed at PhD students, titled "Navigating the Complexity of Climate Change: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Practical Tools for Research and Action". Former Scientific Director of the Research Project titled "IurComp. Observatory and Online Portal on Comparative Jurisprudence". She has been involved in national and international research projects on the constitutional implications of European separatisms, the migration phenomenon from the perspective of intercultural law, citizenship and complementary jurisdictional pluralism, and dialogue between legal systems. She has presented on topics such as climate litigation and its impact on migration, public-private partnerships in support of return migration, secondary migrations, immigration and national integration pathways, women and migration. Awarded the "Marisa Bellisario" National Prize in 2011, for contributions to "Women, Innovation, and Human Capital".View profile