Valentina Eisendle
University Assistent
Department of Italian Law (public law)
University of Innsbruck
Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck
Room 3025
Biography
Valentina Eisendle is a University Assistant at the Department for Italian Law (Italian Public Law) at the University of Innsbruck and a doctoral candidate under Univ.-Prof. Esther Happacher, with a research roject in the field of climate law.
From August 2024 to December 2024, she collaborated in the PRIN project “Governing by Numbers: The Impact of Indicators on the Constitutional System—Rules, Rights, Public Policies, and Judicial Review” at the University of Trento, under the supervision of Prof. Marta Tomasi.
From February 2024 to August 2025, she completed her legal traineeship at State Attorney’s Office in Trento.
In December 2023, she graduated with a law degree from the University of Trento, with a thesis in the field of Comparative Public Law titled “Adjudicating Climate Change between Science and the Law: A Comparative Assessment”, supervised by Prof. Simone Penasa.
She completed her secondary education in 2017 at the “Michael Gaismair” High School of Sterzing/Vipiteno, following the science-oriented curriculum.
Main Research Areas
- Italian Administrative Law and Italian Public Law
- Comparative Public Law
- Climate Litigation and Climate Justice
- Law and Climate
Recent Presentations
- Targets as Normative Bridge between Present Legal Obligations and the Demands of Intergenerational Justice, 1st EACL Conference “Climate Law in Europe: Taking Stock, Looking Forward”, Berlin, 22-23 September 2025 (Link);
- Minding the Gap: AI Regulation and Environmental Sustainability, Joint Seminar by the Universities of Innsbruck and Trento on “AI in Law and Practice: Regional Perspectives on European Rules”, Innsbruck, 03.04.2025 (Link).