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Dr. Avv. Alessia Vacca is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law of the University of Lincoln where she is teaching Environmental Law. She started to work at the end of 2020 in Lincoln, before she was working, since 2013, at the School of Law of the University of Sassari, Italy. At the School of Law of the University of Sassari Alessia was working on a research project regarding Transparency in the Energy Law sector and lecturing on Public Law (Energy Law and Local Government Law). She is also a qualified lawyer in Italy. She is a member of the Education for Sustainable Development Committee at the University of Lincoln and of the BA ECRN Governance Group. Alessia holds a PhD in Law from the University of Aberdeen, UK, where she also worked tutoring EU Law and Foundations of Private Law at the School of Law. She graduated in Law (Laurea in Giurisprudenza Vecchio Ordinamento, which corresponds to a five-year degree) at the University of Cagliari, Italy, with 110/110 cum laude, presenting a thesis on Administrative Law. She has been a trainee lawyer in Italy but also in London for 6 months (as a winner of the Leonardo da Vinci EU award) and in Barcelona (Spain), and a lawyer in Italy in several law firms. She has also been researcher at the University of Cagliari. In 2009 she was awarded with the CB Davidson Bequest from the University of Aberdeen (CB Davidson Trust). She attended several post-graduate courses in Energy Law, Administrative Law, EU Law, International Law and Human Rights Law in Italy and abroad (e.g. abroad among others: International Public Law at the Hague Academy, the Netherlands, Human Rights in the EU at the University Carlos III Madrid, Spain, Cooperation among Mediterranean Sea Countries, University of Marseille, France). Alessia has been visiting researcher at the University of Sydney, Australia, in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland School of Energy), in the United States and in Slovenia where she also lectured at the Faculty of Government and European Studies as visiting professor under the Erasmus+ Teaching Staff Mobility (STT). She has delivered presentations all over the world: at the University of Aberdeen, at the Emory Institute for Human Rights, US, University Paris Nanterre X, France (indeed the conference took place in Florence), the University of London, the University of Tartu, Estonia, the University of Dundee, UK, Direito GV San Paolo, Brazil, and in Nicosia (Cyprus), Athens (Greece), Bangkok (Thailand) and Lisbon (Portugal) during the IAITL Conference series 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Other conference presentations include, at the University of Barcelona, LEARNMe, Mercator (2015), at the University of West of England, Bristol the BILETA Conference (2015), the 2015 and 2016 SIBR Conferences in Japan and Malaysia, at Tonji University, Shanghai, China the 2016 WCTR, the 2016 SISC Conference, the SEES Conference at the University of Cambridge, in Berlin and London for the TNCIS Study abroad Program (US), in Lubjana Slovenia. She attended, in the recent years, the EUSEW Conference hosted by the European Commission in Brussels and other conferences on the energy sector in Italy, in other European countries and in the US (Virginia and Washington D. C.). She has been Visiting Professor at the University of Jaén Spain. In February 2020 she has been Visiting Professor at the Iceland School of Energy under the Erasmus for Staff (University of Sassari). She was a member of the Bar Commission, Court of Appeal of Cagliari, for the Italian Bar examination (year 2014). She is organising every year in Lincoln an European Sustainable Energy Day: https://sustainable-energy-week.ec.europa.eu/events/european-union-sustainable-energy-wednesday-2024-06-19_en