Vito Todeschini

Vito Todeschini (@VitoTodeschini) is a Legal Advisor at Amnesty International (International Secretariat), where he advises on international humanitarian law, international criminal law and international human rights law. Between 2018 and 2022, he was a Legal Advisor for the MENA Programme of the International Commission of Jurists based in Tunis, Tunisia, with a special focus on Libya and Palestine/Israel.

Vito is an Adjunct Associate Professor at American University Washington College of Law. He holds a PhD in international law from Aarhus University, Denmark; a Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratization from the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice, Italy; and a Law Degree from the University of Ferrara, Italy. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Trento, a Visiting Researcher at the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm, and a Visiting Fellow at the Amsterdam Center for International Law. His research has appeared in leading international law publications. He is also on LinkedIn.