Luca Pes

2012: PhD Anthropology, London School of Economics.

2007: PhD Private anc comparative Law, University of Turin.

2006: MPhil Anthropology (master degree), London School of Economics.

2005: MSc Law, Anthropology and Society (master degree), London School of Economics.

2003: LLB Bachelor of Laws (Laurea magistrale in Giurisprudenza), University of Turin.

2002: Diploma in Comparative Law, International Faculty of Comparative Law (1st and 2nd cycle), Strasbourg.

2001: Diplôme d’Etudes Universitaires Françaises, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III.

Academic employment:

2020-to date: Associate Professor in Private Comparative Law, University of Trento.

2009-to date: Faculty member, International University College of Turin.

2014-2019: Research fellow in Private Law (RTD tipo A), University of Eastern Piedmont.

2013-2014: Visiting scholar in Law and Governance in Africa, Van Vollenhoven Institute, University of Leiden.

2006-2013: Post-doctoral research fellow (assegnista di ricerca), University of Turin.

2009-2012: Post-doctoral research and teaching fellow, International University College of Turin.

2009-2011: Post-doctoral research fellow (assegnista di ricerca), University of Eastern Piedmont.

2006-2009: Post-doctoral research fellow (assegnista di ricerca), University of Turin.

Teaching experience:

2014-2002: Private family law, University of Eastern Piedmont. Full-term undergraduate course for bachelor students (Laurea magistrale in Giurisprudenza). The course developed a comparative approach to Family law inspired by the social sciences, particularly sociology and anthropology, with a focus on radical differences in family relations, multiculturalism and migration.

2019-2020: Comparative law and Chinese and Asian legal systems, University of Eastern Piedmont. Full-term postgraduate course for master students in Law, Economics and Institutions, co-taught in English with colleague comparative lawyers E. Grande and A. Serafino. The course is an introduction to critical approaches in comparative law, with a focus on Asian and African Law, radical cultural diversity and global inequality.

2016-2019: International moot court competitions, University of Eastern Piedmont. Full-term seminar course preparing selected students on the subject of human rights, migration and refugee law. International moot courts attended include: the Mandela world human rights international moot court competition (Geneva, 2017), the Nuremberg moot court competition (Nuremberg, 2018 and 2019), the NILOS moot court competition (Utrecht,  2019).

2016-2018: Private law moot courts, University of Eastern Piedmont. Seminar course co-taught with colleague private lawyer R. Míguez Núñez within the course in advanced private law. In this module, the teachers supervise small groups of students in simulated court proceedings on topics of private comparative law.

2014-2015: Guest lecturer in African legal systems, series of lectures within the postgraduate course Foundations of comparative law, LLM in Comparative law, Economics and Finance, International University College of Turin.

2013-2014: Law and governance in Africa, Van Vollenhoven Institute, University of Leiden. Full-term undergraduate course for students of bachelor programs in law, political science and international development. The course takes a comparative law approach to African systems of law and governance, with a particular focus on legal development, legal transplants and migration.

2013-2014: Guest lecturer in Law, governance and development, Van Vollenhoven Institute, University of Leiden. Series of lectures on legal development, comparative law and legal anthropology.

2009-2012: Anthropology of law and finance, International University College of Turin. Full-term postgraduate course for LLM students in Comparative law, Economics and Finance, co-taught in English with economic sociologist Fabian Muniesa. The course combines the perspectives of legal anthropology and economic sociology on grass-root institutions of global capitalism in multicultural societies such as migrant business networks and immigration law.

2009-2012: African legal systems, series of lectures on African law and legal anthropology within the course in Comparative legal systems, University of Eastern Piedmont. In some years, co-taught with African lawyer A. Keita.

2007-2008: Guest lecturer in Comparative Law, University of Bamako and Alfred Garçon University (Mali). Series of lectures on European and African legal systems.

2005-2006: Guest lecturer in Private Law,  University of Eastern Piedmont. Series of lectures on legal anthropology and property law.

2003-2004: Graduate Teaching Assistant in Private Law, University of Turin. Series of lectures on legal anthropology and property law; organization of a moot court competition.

Private and comparative law; African law; legal anthropology; migration law; family law. 

2019-to date: Member of the research group in the project Brave new women: practices and aspirations of middle-age female solidarity.

2019-2020: Investigator in the research Migrant children’s participation and identity construction in education and healthcare.

2019: Investigator in the research Prevention and Interaction in the Trans-Mediterranean area (PRIMED).

2016-2018: Co-direction (with E. Grande) of the research project Polygamy and polyamory: the plurality of family forms and the emergence of new affective and relational practices.

2013-2014: Investigator in the research Access to justice and institutional development in Libya, Van Vollenhoven Institute, University of Leiden.

2012-2014: A comparative study of the commons from a legal-anthropological perspective, University of Turin.

2009-2012: Research Legal Pluralism in Comparative Law, University of Eastern Piedmont.

2007-2009: Ethnographic fieldwork. Two-years field research in the village of Bancoumana, a rural locality of south-west Mali.

2008-2009: Investigator in the research Access to justice in Mali conducted by the “Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche en Sociologie et Droit Appliqué”, University of Bamako (Mali).

2006-2008: Research Global legal pluralism and the role of International financial institutions, University of Turin.

2004-2006: Investigator in the research Diffusion and Americanisation of the Rule of law, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research.