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Fernanda G. Nicola is Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law, Â鶹ÊÓƵ and she is the Director of the Program on International Organizations Law and Development. Her research and teaching interests are in European Union Law, Constitutional Law, Comparative Law and Local Government Law. She received her PhD from Trento University and her SJD degree from Harvard Law School where she was the recipient of the Mancini Prize in European Law, and the Justice Welfare and Economics fellowship at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. 

Professor Nicola is the author of several articles on  transnational legal theory, European law and integration including (2010); (2012); (2016); (2020); with Michelle  Egan, (2023). In 2024 Professor Nicola co-authored with  Transparency International this Report on Comparing the U.S. Foreign  Agents Registration Act with  Hungary’s National Protection of Sovereignty  Law  as she wrote in . She also wrote an Amicus Brief for the Georgian Constitutional Court on the unconstitutionality of the Georgian Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence.

She co-authored with Günter  Frankenberg, (2024). She co-edited three  volumes on the , with Bill Davies entitled (2017); with Mikael-Rask Madsen and  Antoine Vauchez, (2020); with Daniele Gallo,  Roberto Mastroianni and Lorenzo Cecchetti, (2024).

Professor Nicola is a member of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) and was the AALS Chair of the EU law and Comparative law Sections. In 2017 she was a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and a Visiting Professor at LUISS in Rome.  She organized the Luxembourg  forum at Â鶹ÊÓƵWCL that is the official visit of the Court of Justice of the EU  (CJEU) to the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington D.C. and she took part in the  movie .