Academic address:
Full Professor of Comparative Law at the Law Faculty of the University of
Rome I "La Sapienza" (since 1986)
Biography
Awards
Law Degree Honoris Causa University of Louvain-La Neuve (1996)
Law Degree Honoris Causa University of Basel (2001)
Teaching Experience (abroad)
Visiting Professor at the University of Mainz (1984)
Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford (1996)
Visiting Professor at the University of California School of Law at Davis (1998)
Visiting Professor at the Columbia University School of Law (1993, 1999, 2001)
Visiting Professor at the Temple University School of Law Summer Programme (2000, 2002)
Other Professional Activities
Consultant at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), Rome (since 1978)
Chairman of the Working Group for the preparation of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (since 1981)
Member of the Italian delegation to the Diplomatic Conference for the adoption of the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna 1980)
Representative of Italy to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) (1980-2000)
Chairman of the XXIIIrd Plenary Session of UNCITRAL (1990)
Member of the Commission for European Contract Law ("Lando Commission") (1981-2001)
Advisor to the Study Group for a European Civil Code (since 2001)
Member of the Research Council of the European University Institute, Florence (1996-2002)
Editor in chief of the database “UNILEX - International Case Law & Bibliography on the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts” at http://www.unilex.info
Professional Associations
Member of the International Academy of Commercial Law and Consumer Law (since 1986)
Corresponding Member of the Institute of International Business Law and Practices (ICC, Paris) (since 1987)
Membre titulaire of the International Academy of Comparative Law (since 1990)
Member of The American Law Institute ("Member of the Legal Profession from Foreign Countries") (since 1995)
Member of the Austrian Academy of Science ("Korrespondierendes Mitglied der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften") (since 1998)