Margherita Bruti Liberati is an LL.M. student at Harvard Law School and she has been a Research Assistant for the HLS Program on International Law and Armed Conflict since the Fall of 2025. She has notably contributed to a research project concerning the delimitation between jus in bello and jus ad bellum, and the applicability of the ‘proportionality’ concept under those legal frameworks. She is a Project Leader for Harvard Law School’s Advocates for Human Rights, leading a project on tackling climate change through the UN Universal Periodic Review. She works as Research Assistant for Professor Kristen Eichensehr, focusing on legal issues related to U.S. National Security Policy. She is also on the board of Harvard International Arbitration Students Association and of Harvard European Law Association.
Prior to her LL.M. program, Margherita worked as a Member of the European Commission’s Legal Service in the International Law and External Relations team. In that role, she advised the European Commission on legal issues spanning international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international refugee law, economic sanctions, EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, the law of treaties and the law of State responsibility. She also represented the European Union before various international courts, such as the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and the Court of Justice of the European Union. Earlier in her career, Margherita practiced international trade and environmental law in international law firms in Brussels. She also worked in refugee protection, assisting a senior Refugee-Status-Determination Judge at the Tribunal of Milan and serving in UNHCR’s Field Office in Guatemala. She holds a Master of Laws from the University of Milan and an MSc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Biography last updated: January 2026.