Administrative and Constitutional Law
Studio Legale Mazzoli provides legal assistance, including in litigation, to public bodies (including social security institutions) and State concession-holding companies in the sectors of services, public works and public finance, offering specialist advice on the national and EU legislation governing the functional relationships of the public administration, assistance in participatory dealings with the administration, assistance in public tendering procedures for the award of public contracts, and advice on public-body finance, State financial incentives, public employment relationships and financial liability before the Court of Audit.
The Firm handles relations between multinational companies and the public administration, both in administrative proceedings and in litigation, with particular attention to issues arising from the differing regulatory systems of the Member States of the European Union, the compatibility of proposed reforms and of administrative and economic measures with the TFEU, and comparative regimes for public procurement and for concessions of services and public works.
In the field of administrative law, in addition to his private practice, Paolo Mazzoli has held numerous teaching appointments at the Scuola Superiore dell’Economia e della Finanza (https://sna.gov.it/), in both the Department of Economic Sciences and the Department of Legal Sciences (academic years 2006/2008), as well as at the public Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope” (course “Procurement Regulation” [IUS 10 administrative law – public contracts law] linked to the further course “Ethics, Oversight and Procurement” [IUS 17 – criminal law], academic years 2016/2020).
In the field of constitutional law, the Firm acts in both contentious and advisory matters: Paolo Mazzoli, founder of the Firm, was heard as an expert in public law before the 1st Standing Committee of the Senate of the Italian Republic (Constitutional Affairs Committee) during the XVII Legislature in the context of the “fact-finding inquiry into the process of constitutional revision of Title I and Title V of Part II of the Constitution and of the provision concerning the CNEL” and during the XVIII Legislature in relation to constitutional bills nos. 83, 212, 1203, 1532 and 1627 (constitutional protection of the environment).
In these areas of law, the Firm assists its Clients in litigation before the Regional Administrative Courts (TAR), the Council of State, the Court of Audit, the Constitutional Court, the CJEU and the internal self-adjudication bodies (autodichia) of the Italian Parliament, in arbitration and before specialised sectoral administrative adjudicatory commissions.
