Paolo Garraffa is an attorney-at-law (in Italy) since 2006, with experience in the matter of civil, labour, criminal and sports law. He was nominated Vice-Public Prosecutor by the Italian Football Federation (“FIGC”) in November 2012.

In 2009 and 2010 he developed a project - in a High School in Palermo - entitled “Sport and Legality”, involving two high school classes (within many hours of teaching involved).

He achieved a Phd in “European Integration, Sports Law and Juridical Globalization” in 2010, by discussing the following research project: “The new Public Order’s frontiers, including the Police and the Judicial Authorities: the violence in the stadiums”.

He then got an LLM in International Sports Law (at ISDE, Madrid), in 2011, in which he studied the main topics related to International Sports Law (sporting institutions, their legal proceedings, employment relations, contracts, sponsorship, TV rights, etc.). In the same year he did work experience in Brazil (in two law firms) in sports law (especially dealing with Brazilian sports law, and FIFA's Players Agents Regulations' proposal for change).

In 2012 he lectured at the University in Rome (“Link Campus” University), in international sports law.

He had had several sports law articles published, including in international publications. He speaks (and writes) English fluently, Spanish (castellano) and Brazilian Portuguese (having already lived, respectively, in London, Madrid, Sao Paulo).