Carlo Maria Colombo is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Public Law, and a fellow of the Maastricht Center of European Law, the Institute for Transnational Legal Research and the GLaw-Net research network, all at Maastricht University (NL). His research focusses on studying the potential of law and regulatory instruments to address complex societal challenges in the context of multi-level and interconnected settings, at the cross-roads of law, policy and governance. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pavia (IT) and is a qualified lawyer in Italy. Previously, he was post-doctoral researcher at Tilburg University (NL) and served as Blue Book Trainee at the D.G. for Competition of the EU Commission. Carlo also teaches a master’s course on ‘Cities and Law in the ecological transition’ at Sciences Po Paris.