Caterina D’Osualdo has been a civil judge in Italy since 2003, first employed at the Tribunal of Marsala (2003 – 2008) and then at the Tribunal of Como (2008 – 2019). From 2019 to 2021 she has been seconded to the Ministry of Justice in Italy, where she has worked for the Directorate General of International Matters and Judicial Cooperation. Since 1.9.2019 she has been working as a Seconded National Expert (SNE) in the European Commission, Directorate General for Justice and Consumers, Directorate A (Justice policies), Unit A.2 (Civil justice).
As part of the team preparing the initiative to tackle the phenomenon of SLAPP (“Strategic lawsuits against public participation”), she has worked on the Commission proposal for a Directive on protecting persons who engage in public participation from manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings and participated in the negotiations in the Council and the European Parliament.