Education

Ph.D. in Comparative Law, University of Florence, 1995

J.D. (Laurea quadriennale) in Law, University of Trento, 1991 (110/110 magna cum laude)

 

 
Academic career and teaching activities

From 2005 Full Professor of Private Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, School of International Studies, University of Trento

 

Member of the Board of the Ph.D. programme in International Studies, School of International Studies, University of Trento

 

Member of the Board of Directors of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies of the University of Trento

 

From 2000 to 2005 Associate Professor of Private Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Trento

 

From 1994 to 2000 Researcher of Private comparative law, Faculty of Law, University of Trento

 

From October 2018 to January 2021 Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento

 

From 2019 Deputy Dean for international relations of the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento

 

From 2012 to 2016 Director of the School of International Studies, University of Trento

 

From 2006 to 2012 Deputy Director of the School of International Studies, University of Trento 

 

From 2000 to 2004 member of the Board of Directors (Consiglio di amministrazione) of the University of Trento

 

Courses:  Comparative Private Law (in Italian and English) - Law of the European Union (in Italian) - The Legal Framework of EU Policies (in English) - Global markets and Security (in English) - Law and gender (in Italian) - Anglo-American law (in Italian and English) 
Research interests

European comparative private law, particularly contract law; Comparative law and soft law instruments for the harmonization of private law (PECL, PICC, DCFR) and their interaction with national legal systems; structure of EU law and its impact on national legal systems, particularly in the area of private law; consumer protection in European legal systems and the European Union; legal transplants and competition of legal models within the European Union; differentiated integration within the EU; measurement of law, legal methodology and social sciences.
Memberships in societies and scientific committees

Member of the Executive Editorial Board of the American Journal of Comparative Law

Member of the Italian Society on Research in Comparative Law (Società Italiana per la Ricerca nel Diritto Comparato, SIRD)

Member of the Society of European Contract Law (SECOLA)

Member of the European Law Institute (ELI)

Member of the Scientific Committee of the series “Ambienti del diritto”, Olschki publishing house, Florence

 
Awards and honours

Gian Domenico Romagnosi prize for scientific research, University of Trento, 2002
Other work

Member of the Steering Committee (Consiglio di Presidenza) of the Faculty of Law, University of Trento, from 2003 to 2009 and from  2018 

Member of the Board of the Ph.D. programme in International Studies, School of International Studies, University of Trento from 2004

Deputy Director of the School of International Studies of the University of Trento from 2006 to 2012

Member of the Steering Committee of the School of International Studies of the University of Trento from 2006 to 2009

Member of the Establishing Committee of the Masters' degree in European and International Studies of the University of Trento (in cooperation with the Faculties of Law, Economic, Sociology and Humanities) from February 2004 to January 2006

Member of the Board of Directors of the Antonio Megalizzi Foundation from 2020, on behalf of the University of Trento

 
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