Cesare P.R. Romano is a Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (Loyola Marymount University) and a W. Joseph Ford fellow. Professor Romano initially studied international relations at Università degli Studi di Milano (Statale), and after that, international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Université de Genève), where he completed a Diplôme d'études supérieures (D.E.S.) and a Ph.D., and at New York University (LL.M.). Between 1996 and 2006 he created, developed, and managed the Project on International Courts and Tribunals, a joint undertaking of the Center on International Cooperation, New York University, and the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals, University College London. In 2011, he put his knowledge of the law and procedure of international adjudicative bodies to the service of victims of human rights violations. He founded the International Human Rights Center at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and, since then, litigated dozens of cases before various international human rights bodies, including the first case to claim violation of the Right to Science (CESCR, S.C. and G.P. v Italy, 22/2017). In 2018, Professor Romano co-established Science for Democracy, a Brussels-based NGO whose goal is to promote the human right to science and the rights of science, and he has been the organization’s Secretary General since 2023. In 2024, he co-authored Romano C./Boggio, A., The Human Right to Science: History, Development and Normative Content, Oxford University Press, 797 pp., 2024.