Teaching Staff

Professor Alan Uzelac – University of Zagreb

Professor Uzelac is Full Professor with Tenure since (17/01/2012) at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, where he teaches Civil Procedure, Arbitration, ADR, Judiciary, Evidence and Protection of Human Rights in Europe. Teaching and research at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels.

Since 2000 – Independent consultant and expert

Consulting for Institutions and Organizations such as Council of Europe, World Bank, USAID, UNHCR, OSCE on various aspects of the assessment of civil justice systems, in particular:

• the reform of the system of enforcement of judicial decisions and other enforceable documents (Bulgaria, Georgia, Russia,Serbia, Bosnia and Hercegovina)
• the functioning of civil procedure and judicial time management (Bosnia and Hercegovina, Morocco, Croatia)
• the development of the systems of alternative dispute resolution – mediation and arbitration (Kosovo, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Albania)
• reform of appeals system (Russia)
• evaluation of legal aid system (Croatia, Montenegro)
• harmonization of litigation legislation with EU law (Montenegro)

Since 2001 – Arbitrator and advisor, appointed by Institutions such as Permanent Arbitration Court at the Croatian Chamber of Commerce; Vienna International Arbitration Centre; London Court of International Arbitration; ad hoc arbitration

Editor of the periodical publication: Croatian Arbitration Yearbook, 1992-2002

Editor of the series of publications on Comparative Civil Procedure (together with Remco van Rhee, published with Intersentia) 2007-2010

Lecturer in several European conferences, seminars, workshops

Member of several international academic and professional associations, such as International Association of Procedural Law (Member of the Council); Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für internationales Verfahrensrecht (Member of the Council – Rat); Harvard Club Croatia; Rotary International; Croatian Mediation Association (2013: Award for the Contribution to Development of Mediation in Croatia)

Member of the national Commission for the Administration of the Internet national top-level domain (.hr) and author of the Rules for DNS Arbitral Dispute Resolution regarding .hr domain names

Skills and expertise relevant to the implementation of the project

• Professor Uzelac is one of the most eminent authority at international level in the field of international, comparative and European civil procedure

• For the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, Prof Uzelac has been founding member of the European commission for the efficiency of justice (CEPEJ), where he is currently national delegate; member of the CEPEJ Bureau (2003-2006); Chairman of the Task Force on Timeframes of Judicial Proceedings (TF-DEL) – (2003-2006); member of the Groupe de Pilotage of the Center for the Study and Analysis of Judicial Time Management (SATURN) – (2007-2010)

• He has often contributed to drafting of legislation in the fields of civil procedure, mediation, arbitration and judicial organisation (author or co-author of a number of laws, regulations and recommendations at the national and international level, such as the Law on Courts; Law on State Judicial Council; Arbitration Law; Conciliation Law; Court Rule Book; Legal Aid Act)

• He has been Secretary General of the Permanent Arbitration Court at the Croatian Chamber of Commerce in the years 1992 – 2002, where he was engaged in administering more than 350 cases (about 200 domestic and 15 0 international) and Member of the Executive Board of the Croatian Arbitration Association

• He is member of the Working group for Arbitration and Conciliation of the United Nations Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)

Since 2006 till present he has been the Organisational Course Director of the Public and Private Justice Course and Seminar.

Professor Diego Fernandez Arroyo – Science Po, Paris

Professor of Law and Director of the LLM in Transnational Arbitration & Dispute Settlement – Sciences Po, School of Law (Paris, France).

Secretary General – International Academy of Comparative Law

Former President and Honorary Member – American Association of Private International Law, ASADIP

Member of the Board of Directors – French Association of Arbitration

Member of the Curatorium – Hague Academy of International Law

Co-director – Latin-American Conference of Arbitration (CLA)

Associate of the Institut de droit international 

Global Professor at the New York University (2013-2015)

Honorary Professor, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Honorary Professor, National University of Córdoba (Argentina)

French Chair, State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (2014)

Pablo Neruda Chair, Latin-America Institute of High Studies, Paris (France) (2007-2008)

Corresponding Member, Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Venezuela

 “Rosalba” Medal for the contribution to international law and low of integration, Permanent Tribunal of Revision, MERCOSUR

Co-founder of the Research Project Private International Law as Global Governance (PILAGG).

Visiting Professor (long stays, individual courses) in Universities from all over the world, such as:

SOUTH AMERICA – ARGENTINA: National University of Córdoba (1996, 1999, 2000) – BRAZIL: Inter-American Juridical Committee of the Organization of American States, Rio de Janeiro (1999, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2014), Unicuritiba, Curitiba (2004, 2005), Federal Universities of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (2004, 2005), Santa Catarina, Florianópolis (2001, 2003) – COLOMBIA: Universities La Sabana (2014, 2016) – URUGUAY: Catholic University (1998), University of Montevideo (2000, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012) – VENEZUELA:  Venezuela Central University, Caracas (2005, 2007)

NORTH AMERICA – CANADA:  University of Ottawa (2000) – U.S.A.: University of California, Davis (1998/1999), New York University, Global Professor (2013/2014, 2014/2015), Scholar in Residence (2015, 2018)

AUSTRALIA: University of Sydney (2012)

EUROPE – FRANCE:  University of Lyon III (2008/2009, 2009/2010), University of Paris III (2007/2008), University of Paris II, Panthéon – Assas (2006) – ITALY: International University College of Turin (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), University of Bologna (2018) – THE NETHERLANDS: Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague (2006, 2013, 2019, 2020) – SWITZERLAND: University of Fribourg (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018) – SPAIN: Universities of Granada (1989, 2002), Almeria (1993/1994), and Alicante (2006/2007) – UNITED KINGDOM: University of Edinburgh (2020)

ASIA – JAPAN: Universities Kansai, Osaka (2012), Waseda, Tokyo (2012, 2016), Doshisha, Kyoto (2016, 2020)

Co-editor of the series Ius Comparatum – Global Series in Comparative Law published by Springer

Skills and expertise relevant to the implementation of the project

• Professor Fernández Arroyo is one of the most eminent authority at international level in the field of private international law, comparative law, international commercial and investment arbitration and public international law
• He has published several books and a number of articles in more than 20 countries in the field of transnational litigation and arbitration, private international law, European law, compartive law and international law
• He is the Director of the LLM in Transnational Arbitration & Dispute Settlement, Sciences Po, School of Law (Paris, France)
• He has developed several projects in the field of arbitration and international business law for the European Union, the Andean Community, the MERCOSUR, and the Latin-American Integration Association.
• Professor Fernández Arroyo is actively involved in the practice of international arbitration as an independent arbitrator (ad hoc, ICC, ICSID, Milan Chamber, and others) and an expert. He has been appointed by Argentina as a member of the ICSID lists of arbitrators and conciliators, and as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Since 2017, he is Member of the Arbitral Council of the Milan Chamber of Arbitration
• He is Member of Argentinean Delegations before the United Nations Commission for Internatioanal Trade Law (Working Groups on Arbitration and on ISDS Reform) and the Organization of American States. He has represented ASADIP before the Hague Conference of Private International Law and UNIDROIT as well.

He has a huge experience in innovative teaching methodologies, as he has been supervising for years the teams of Sciences Po Law School participating officially at international moot competitions for Universities teams (such as Jessup, Vis Moot, Frankfurt Investment and Competencia Internacional)

Professor Gilles Cuniberti – Luxembourg University

2008 – present: Professor of Private International Law and Comparative Law at Luxembourg University, where he teaches Conflict of Laws, Transnational Commercial Law,    Int’l Litigation and Arbitration, Torts, and Comparative Law

President of the European Association of Private International Law (since 1999) Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague, Netherlands, August 2018: Summer Course of Private International Law – Special Course: The Foundation of the Effects of Foreign Judgments (in French)
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law, Singapore, January 2013, 15 – Visiting Professor
Columbia Law School, New York, Fall 2011 – James S. Carpentier Visiting Professor of Law
1999-2008: Tenured Associate Professor of Law – Paris Val de Marne University, France (courses taught: Comparative Conflict of Laws; Int’l Business Transactions, Int’l Arbitration, Int’l Litigation, European Business Law, Commercial Law; Director of the Paris Val de Marne-Sheffield Hallam Joint Degree in Business Law)
LL.M. – Yale Law School, New Haven, CT (2005)
Doctorate in Law “Conservatory Measures Regarding Assets Situated Abroad” – Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France (1998) – Highest Honors; First Prize, the French Centre for Comparative Law

Skills and expertise relevant to the implementation of the project

Work in Law Reform:
For the European Parliament
2018 – Co-author of the Report and Testimony for the Legal Committee of the European Parliament: “The Hague Conference on Private International Law Judgments Convention” – with P. de Miguel Ascensio, P. Franzina, C. Heinze & M. Requejo)
2015 – Co-author of the Report and Testimony for the Legal Committee of the European Parliament: “Civil Judicial Experts in the EU: Analysis of EU Legislation and Recommendations”
For the European Commission
2018 – Member of the Expert Group on the Modernization of Judicial Cooperation in Civil and Commercial Matters
2017 – Member of the Expert Group on the law applicable to third party effects of assignments of claims and securities 
2016 – National Reporter for Luxembourg for the Consortium of Experts led by the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg, Evaluation study of the impact of national procedural laws and practices on the free circulation of judgments and on the equivalence and effectiveness of the procedural protection of consumers under EU law for the European Commission
2012 – National Reporter for France and Luxembourg for the External Evaluation of Regulation No. 1346/2000/EC on Insolvency Proceedings for the European Commission
2011 – Member of the Expert Group on the Freezing of Bank Accounts
2010 – National Reporter for France, Belgium and Luxembourg for the Study on the Interpretation of the Public Policy Exception as referred to in EU Instruments of Private International Law for the European Parliament
For the European Law Institute-Unidroit
2014-2016 – Reporter, European Law Institute-UNIDROIT Project on European Civil Procedure

Prof. Fernando Gascón Inchausti – Complutense University of Madrid

Since 2016 – Full Professor (Catedrático) of Procedural Law – Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), where he teaches Civil Procedure and judicial protection of fundamental rights; 2008-2015 – Head of the Department of Procedural Law, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Law School

Since 2016 – Executive Sebretary General – International Association of Procedural Law

Since 2010 – General Assistant Editor – International Journal of Procedural Law

Visiting Professor and Scholar – University of Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne (Course “Le Système Judiciaire et les procédures civiles et pénales en Espagne”- Judicial system, civil and criminal procedure in Spain) (Feb. 2012); Leipzig University (“Einführung in das spanische Privat- und Prozessrecht”); Visiting Scholar, Centre for the Study of Law and Society, University of California at Berkely (Jul.-Aug. 2009);

Nov. 2001-Jul. 2002 – Assistant at the General Commission for the Codification- Special Section for the Reform of Criminal Procedure (Preliminary Works to the Spanish Criminal Procedure Reform of 2002 and 2003)

2010- Member of the Advisory Board, Civil Procedure Review (www.civilprocedurereview.com)

Skills and expertise relevant to the implementation of the project

Main Researcher, National Reporter and Member of several research studies and projects funded by the European Union in the field of Compartive, International and European Law:

• 2019-2021: Main Researcher of the Project «Towards a civil procedure convergent with Europe. Current milestones and future challenges» (PGC2018-094693-B-100), Funding Institution: Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities

• 2019-2020: Research of the Project «LawTrain» (Action Grant 806937 – JUSTAG-2017/JUST-JTRA-EJTR-AG-2)

• 2016-2019: Main Researcher of the Project «The Harmonization of Civil Procedure in the European Union» (DER 2015-64756-P) – Funding Institution: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness

• 2017: Member of the Action Grant «LawTrain» 806937 – JUST-AG-2017/JUST-JTRA-EJTR-AG-2 – Funding Institution: European Commission, DG Justice

• 2016-2017: National Reporter for Spain and Member of the Consortium led by the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg that carried out the Study “An evaluation study of national procedural laws and practices in terms of their impact on the free circulation of judgments and on the equivalence and effectiveness of the procedural protection of consumers under EU consumer law” – Funding Institution: European Commission

• 2016-2017: Member of the Action Grant «European Civil Procedure for Lawyers: Promoting Training to Improve the Effectiveness of Transnational Justice» JUST/2014/JTRA/AG/EJTR/6771 – Funding Institution: European Commission, DG Justice

• 2013-2015: Researcher of the Project “Civil proceedings in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. Basis for the construction of a European Civil Procedural Law?” – Funding Institution: Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity

• Since 2013 till present: Participation in the ELI/UNIDROIT Project “From Transnational Principles to European Rules of Civil Procedure” (since 2013). Co-reporter of the Working Group on “Access to Information and Evidence”. Member of the Working Groups on “Res Judicata – Lis Pendens” and “Appeals”.

• 2011: Academic Coordinator and Researcher of the Group in charge of the draft of the «Handbook for judges, prosecutors and other competent authorities on how to issue and execute a request for enforcement of a freezing order» (JUST/2010/JPEN/PR/1004) – Funding Institution: European Commission – Directorate General Justice

• 2010-2011: Coordinator and Researcher of the Project “European Civil Procedure and e-Justice implementation within the European Union (A Planning for its Study and Diffusion among Legal Practitioners)” – Action Grant JLS/2008/JCIV/AG/1008 Funding Institution: European Commission – DG Justice

• 1999-2000: Researcher of the Project “The reform of insolvency procedures” –  Funding Institution: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

• 1998-2000: Researcher of the Project “Fundamental rights and judicial relief” –  Funding Institution: Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture (Ministerio de Educación y Cultura)

Prof. Dr. iur. Wolfgang Hau – Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich

Since 2017, Prof. Wolfgang Hau holds the chair for Private Law and German, International and Comparative Civil Procedure at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich and serves as part-time judge of the Oberlandesgericht München (Higher Regional Court of Munich).

He is co-director of the Munich Center for Dispute Resolution (MuCDR) and member of the board of the Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Internationales Verfahrensrecht (German Academic Association of International Procedural Law).

He has authored various books, inter alia a textbook on international civil litigation (Hartmut Linke & Wolfgang Hau, Internationales Zivilverfahrensrecht, 8th ed. 2021), and numerous publications on national, international and European procedural law. His current research focuses on comparative aspects of court settlements and on the relevance of party agreements in the context of cross-border enforcement.

From 2003 to 2017 he was a Professor at the University of Passau, holding the chair for civil law, civil procedure and international private law. 2010-2014 – Vice President of the University.

2008-2010 – Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Passau.

1997-2003 – Research assistant at the university Trier.

2002 – Habilitation as a student of Professor Dr. Walter F. Lindacher; License to teach forCivil law, procedural law, international private law and comparative law.

1997-1998 – Lawyer in Trier and Paris.

Prof. Maria Teresa Carinci – Università degli Studi, Milan

Full Professor of Labour Law – Università degli Studi, Milan, where she teaches Labour Law, Labour Law (Advanced Program) and European Labour Law (the latter in Englsih) [she has also taught a course on Trade Liberalization and Labour Rights in the period 2015-2018].

She is an eminent authority, in Italy ad abroad, in the field of Labour Law, author of leadings publications (manuals, textbooks, commentaries, treaties, encyclopedias, contributions, essays) widely used by Italian academics and professionals.

She has been invited by several foreign Universities as Visiting Professor and Scholar [2015- Present: Visiting lecturer – University of Cergy-Paris (FRANCE); 2014  Visiting scholar and Visiting lecturer – centre of European Studies, University of Beijing (CHINA); 2009 Visiting scholar – COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (USA) (FALL SEMESTER).

She holds numerous prestigious positions within and outside Academia [Coordinator of the Labour Law Section, Department of Private Law and Legal History, University of Milan,Italy; Director of the Specialization Course on Labour Law – Università degli Studi, Milan; Coordinator of the Doctoral School (PhD) in Comparative, Private and Civil procedural Law, University of Milan, Italy].

She is in the scientific committees of the most important Italian legal reviews and journal specialized in Labour Law, as well as partner or member of the most important Italian and foreign Associations specialized in Labour Law.

She has been awarded some prestigious prizes, such as, in 2000, the “Massimo D’antona” Prize awarded by the Italian Association of Labor and Social Security Law (AIDLaSS) for the  best “opera prima” in Labor law; in 1995 the “Santoro Passarelli” Prize awarded by the  Italian Association of Labor and Social Security Law (AIDLaSS) for the 2best Italian PHD dissertation in Labor law.

Skills and expertise relevant to the implementation of the project

Prof. Maria Teresa Carinci has been teaching for years European Labour Law and Trade Liberalization and Labour Rights.

She has been leader, scientific coordinator or member of several research groups involved in national and international projects [e.g. till present: l’Appel à projets de recherche 2018- Formes d’économie collaborative et protection sociale dal titolo “Transformations Sociales et Economie Numérique (TransSEN)” with Université de Rennes 1, funded in 2018 by Ministère des solidarités et de la santé (France); research group on “Global Trade and Labour” coordinated by Proff. Adalberto Perulli (Italy) and Janice Bellace (USA) n- 7 Study Groups appointed by ISLSSL (International Society for Labour and Social Security Law) in view of XXII ISLSSL WORLD CONGRESS Turin 2018).

She has experience of teaching activities addressed to different categories of benficiaries (undergraduate, LL.M. and Ph.D students; lawyers, judges, public officers; policy makers). For example, she is Coordinator of the Doctoral School (PhD) in Comparative, Private and Civil procedural Law, University of Milan; Member of the Faculty Teaching Committee, School of Law – University of Milan, Italy; Member of the Directive Committee of the LL.M. in Journalism, University of Milan, Italy; Member of the Directive Committee of the Specialisation course in Labour Sciences, University of Milan, Italy).

In her role as Delegate for Internalization, University of Milan, Italy, as well as Scientific Coordinator of the Double degree between the University of Milan and the University of Cergy Paris, she is very much involved in the internationalization of legal education in Italy.

She is very keen on multidisciplinary studies and research, as demonstrated by some recent involvement in publications and research activites in the field of cross-border litigation (see Maria Teresa Carinci, Albert Henke, Rapporti di lavoro via web con elementi di internazionalità: quali sono la legge applicabile e il foro competente per il diritto UE?, in Diritto delle relazioni industriali, n. 4 XXIX, 2019, pp. 1041-1072 – ISSN 1121-8762; Member of the Scientific Board of the Center of Research on European and Transnational Dispute Resolution – Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Albert Henke – Università degli Studi, Milan).

Prof. Barbara Randazzo, Full Professor, Public Law, Università degli Studi, Milan

Full Professor of Public law – Department of Italian and Supranational Public Law – Faculty of Law – University of Milan. Courses taught: Constitutional Law, Supranational Constitutional Justice (European Courts), Access to justice in a multilevel constitutional system (protecting human rights), Regional law.

Coordinator of the post-graduate course in “Litigations before the European Courts”- University of Milan.

Member of the Board of Professors for the LLM Program in Sustainable Development – University of Milan.

Member of the Doctorate School (PhD) in Constitutional Law at Public Law Department.

Associate member of the Italian Association of Constitutional Law Professor.

Associate member of the “Gruppo di Pisa Association” on Constitutional justice.

Member of Legislative Scientific Committees of different Italian Regional and provincial councils.

Lawyer qualified before higher Courts. Extrajudicial and judicial activity before the ordinary, administrative, auditors jurisdictions, and before the Constitutional Court and the European Courts. Specialized in Human rights.

Other former qualifications

Member of the Quality Committee – University of Milan (2014-2019).

Delegate for internalisation and Erasmus Placement – University of Milan (2009-2016).

Member of the Ethics Committee – University of Milan (2006-2015).

Constitutional judge assistant at the Italian Constitutional Court (2004-2005).

Appointee at the Studies Department of the Italian Constitutional Court researching on the relationships between the Constitutional Court and the European Court of the Human Rights. (2005-2014).

More than 130 publications.

For a complete overview of the cv, publications, speeches et alia, please visit:

http://www.unimi.it/chiedove/cv/barbara_randazzo.pdf?1554845904073

Joachim Feldges – Partner, Allen & Overy LLP, Munich

Joachim is partner in the IP litigation practice of Allen & Overy LLP, Munich (Germany) and member of the German life sciences group. He is a dedicated patent litigation partner and has practised complex patent litigation since more than 33 years with a particular focus on pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and medical devices. 

He represents clients in infringement and validity cases before all major patent courts, the Federal Supreme Court and the Federal Patent Court and he has advised clients for many years developing and implementing international patent litigation strategies in numerous European jurisdictions.

In addition, Joachim regularly represents clients in opposition proceedings before the European Patent Office.

He also represents clients in arbitration proceedings and acts as an arbitrator and mediator according to the WIPO rules in IP disputes. 

Noteworthy experience includes advising:

• Acting as arbitrator according to WIPO arbitration rules in a license dispute

• Acting as Counsel in an arbitration on a patent matter according to WIPO arbitration rules

• Acting as Counsel in an arbitration according to ICC rules in a license dispute

• Representing a pharmaceutical company in a patent dispute involving 17 jurisdictions

• Representing a global pharmaceutical company in a patent dispute on a highly innovative biologic

• Representing a global pharmaceutical company in a landmark case on second medical use patents

• Representing a global pharmaceutical company in a dispute on the infringement of a SPC during pediatric extension of its term in front of German Courts as well as the CJEU.

• Representing an innovative company in a multijurisdictional patent dispute on sequencing machines

• Representing a company in a patent dispute on offshore windparks in both patent infringement and nullity proceedings with regard to the German part of a European Patent.

• Representing a global pharmaceutical company in a patent dispute on an orphan drug

• Advising clients on licnese agreements on CRISPR technology

• Advising clients on the impact of COVID 19 and State Regulations on patents covering potential drugs for tretament

Prof. Francesco Rossi dal Pozzo – Università degli Studi, Milan

Since 2019 – Full Professor of European Union Law – Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan (Italy), where he teaches European Unione Law, Competition Law of European Union, Transport Law

Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Ecellence (EU Digital Single Market and Cybersecurity): 2018-2021

Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam in European Union Law (EU Health Legal Framework and Competition Law): 2012 to date

Member of the Chaire Jean Monnet of prof. M. Condinanzi, “Qui a peur de l’Europe?”, cofunded by the European Commission (2017 – 2020)

Academic coordinator – Jean Monnet Module “EU Rail Transport Law”, cofunded by the European Commission (2016 – 2019)

Member of the Scientific Commitee for EXPO 2015 of the Ordine degli Avvocati di Milano (Milan Bar Association) (2014 to date)

Advocate at the Bar Association of Milan, litigating cases before National Courts, the Court of Justice and the General Court.

Skills and expertise relevant to the implementation of the project

• Wide expertise in European Union Law and related subject-matters

• Scientific coordinator or member of several Studies, Research, Activities funded by the EU in EU law related subject-matters, such as:

• 2016 – 2019, Responsible of the Jean Monnet Module “EU Rail Transport Law”, co-funded by the European Commission.

• 2013 – 2016, Member of the Centres d’excellence Jean Monnet, Programme Jean Monnet “Expo 2015 – Nutrire il Pianeta, Energia per la Vita”, cofunded by the European Commission, responsabile of the project Prof. Bruno Nascimbene,

• 2015, Member of theChaire Jean Monnet, Programme Jean Monnet, 2009-2014 prof. M. Condinanzi, “Espace de liberté, securité et justice: protection juridictionnelle et libre circulation des personnes”

• 2011 – 2013, Recipient of a EU Commission funded research program – Module Jean Monnet on “EU Air Transport Law”.

• Particular expertise in EU Competition and IP Law (courses taught, publications, conferences and seminars within Universities’ courses, Master and Ph.D’s Programs), among which:

• Teaching experience in EU competition law:
  • From 2013 to date, “European Competition law – Advanced course” at the University of Milan, Faculty of Law.
  • From 2012 to 2014, “European Single Market – Advanced course” at the University of Milan, Faculty of Law.

• Publications in EU competition law:
  • Codice degli aiuti di Stato, Torino (Giappichelli), forthcoming
  • Codice della concorrenza, Torino (Giappichelli), 2019
  • Private enforcement delle norme di concorrenza dell’Unione europea e tutela dei diritti fondamentali: alla ricerca di un difficile equilibrio fra interessi talora contrapposti, in Collana di Studi sull’integrazione europea, vol. 23, 2018.
  • La direttiva sul risarcimento del danno da illecito antitrust. Armonizzazione delle regole nazionali in tema di private enforcement o occasione mancata?, in Eurojus.it, 2014.
  • La proposta di regolamento di revisione della direttiva 2001/18/CE in tema di coltivazione degli organismi geneticamente modificati e la sentenza del T.A.R. Lazio Roma Sez. III quater, del 23.4.2014, n. 4410: quale possibile coordinamento alla luce dei principi di sussidiarietà e di precauzione, in Eurojus.it, 2014
  • Profili recenti in tema di organismi geneticamente modificati  nel  settore agroalimentare fra procedure di comitato e tutela giurisdizionale, in Diritto del commercio internazionale, 2014, p. 540
  • Legittimità “comunitaria e costituzionale” del nuovo IMAIE: può sussistere un interesse pubblico a tutela del monopolio? (with J. Alberti), in AIDA, 2011, p. 405.
  • Golden shares: uno strumento inadeguato per la tutela di interessi (talvolta) meritevoli, in Contratto e impresa / Europa, 2009, p. 824.
  • L’azione di risarcimento antitrust e la “prescrizione” nel diritto comunitario e nel diritto nazionale (with B. Nascimbene), in Diritto del Commercio internazionale, 2009, p. 513.

• Conferences and seminars in EU competition law:
  • 6th June 2018, Lecturer at “Corso sugli aiuti di Stato, Scuola Nazionale dell’Amministrazione (SNA) of the Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri”, Milano.
  • 25th November 2017,  Lecturer at the Master “Antitrust” organised by Sole 24 Ore, Milan, with the speeches “La vincolatività delle decisioni della Commissione europea e delle autorità nazionali nelle azioni di risarcimento del danno antitrust” and “Il risarcimento del danno antitrust e i profili legati alla Brexit”.
  • 17th November 2017, Lecturer at the III Biennial Conference of the International Law Association in the session “Unione europea e diritto della concorrenza a sessant’anni dalla firma del Trattato di Roma”, with a speech on “Concorrenza e Brexit”.
  • 30th May 2017, Co-organiser of the conference “Farmaci originator, biosimilari e antitrust”, Palazzo Giureconsulti, via Mercanti, n. 2, Milan, with a speech on “L’interazione fra la tutela della salute ed il diritto della concorrenza nella prassi decisionale della Commissione europea”.
  • 24th March 2017, Lecturer at the conference “Integrazione europea e sovranazionalità”, organized by University of Rome Tre, with a speech on “Diritto della concorrenza e private enforcement”.

• Member of several national funded research projects in EU law related fields:

• 2008, Member of a University of Milan-funded research Project (PUR 2008) on “The Community framework on rail transport”.

• 2007, Member of a University of Milan-funded research Project (FIRST 2007) on “The protection of individual rights in the field of air transport”.

• 2006, Member of a University of Milan-funded research Project (FIRST 2006) on “State liability for breach of Community law”

• 2005, Member of a Government-funded research project (PRIN 2005) on “Individual Guarantees and Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters in the European Union” (coordinator: Prof. B. Nascimbene).

Experience as Evaluator in the Assessment for Research Quality for the National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems (ANVUR) (2012 – 2013)

Prof. Stefaan Voet – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Since 2015 – Associate Professor of Civil Procedure – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, where he teaches Civil Procedure and European Civil Procedure

Since 2015 – Host Professor – University of Hasselt, Belgium

Substitute Justice of the Peace (3rd canton of Bruges), Belgium and Chairman of the supervisory board of the Belgian Trade Ombudsman

Programme Affiliate of the Swiss Re/CMS Research Programme on Civil Justice Systems Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford

Visiting lecturer/professor at the Law Center University of Houston; SMU Dedman School of Law in Dallas; College of Law University of Tennessee; Syracuse University College of Law; China-EU School of Law in Beijing; University of Pavia; University of Pretoria.

Member of the Class Actions Exchange Network spearheaded by the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Tilburg and Affiliate at the Class Action Lab of the University of Montréal

2014 – Triannual Price of Civil Procedure awarded by the vzw Algemene Modellenverzameling voor de Rechtspraktijk for the Ph.D Thesis about complex litigation in Belgium

Skills and expertise relevant to the implementation of the project

• Participation as expert in many EU research projects, such as:
  • DEECP Project Dimensions of Evidence in European Civil Procedure (lead by the University of Maribor);
  • Comparative study on legal standing (locus standi) before the EU and Member States’ Courts; a comparative study of the legal standing of nine European countries and Turkey funded by the European Parliament (n° IP/C/JURI/IC/2011-063);
  • An evaluation study of the impact of national procedural laws and practices on the free circulation of judgments and on the equivalence and effectiveness of the procedural protection of consumers under EU law (n° JUST/2014/RCON/PR/CIVI/0082) (lead by the MPI Institute Luxembourg);
  • Remedies concerning Enforcement of Foreign Judgements according to Brussels I Recast” (lead by the University of Maribor)

• Author or co-author of several books, articles, research studies on European Civil Procedure

• Special expertise in domestic, comparative and Euopean Collective Redress.

Main publications:

• C. HODGES and S. VOET, Delivering Collective Redress in Markets: New Technologies, The Foundation for Law, Oxford, Justice and Society, 2017, http://www.fljs.org/content/delivering-collective-redress-markets-new-technologies

• S. VOET, “’Where the Wild Things Are’. Reflections on the State and Future of European Collective Redress” in A.L.M. KEIRSE and M.B.M. LOOS (eds.), Waves in Contract and Liability Law in Three Decades of Ius Commune, Cambridge, Intersentia, 2017, 105-140

• S. VOET, “The Crux of the Matter: Funding and Financing Collective Redress Mechanisms”, in B. HESS, M. BERGSTRÖM and E. STORSKRUBB (eds.), EU Civil Justice: Current Issues & Future Outlook, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2016, 201-222

• S. VOET, “Consumer Collective Redress in Belgium: Class Actions to the Rescue?”, European Business Organization Law Review 2015, 121-143

• S. VOET, “Belgium’s Consumer Class Action”, Zeitschrift für Verbraucherrecht (VbR) 2015, 153-157

• S. VOET, “European Collective Redress: A Status Quaestionis”, International Journal of Procedural Law 2014, 97-128

• S. VOET, “Belgium’s New Consumer Class Action”, in V. HARSAGI and C.H. VAN RHEE (eds.), Multi-Party Redress Mechanisms in Europe: Squeaking Mice?, Cambridge, Intersentia, 2014, 95-109

• S. VOET, “Cultural Dimensions of Group Litigation: The Belgian Case”, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 2013, vol. 41, 433-480

• S. VOET, “Public enforcement and A(O)DR as mechanisms for resolving mass problems: a Belgian perspective”, in CH. HODGES and A. STADLER (eds.), Resolving Mass Disputes: ADR and Settlement of Mass Claims, Edward Elgar, 2013, 270-292

• P. TAELMAN and S. VOET, “Belgium and Collective Redress: the Last of the European Mohicans”, in E. DIRIX and Y.-H. LELEU (eds.), The Belgian reports at the Congress of Washington of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Brussels, Bruylant, 2011, 305-346

Co-coordinator of the Special Interest Group on Dispute Resolution of the European Law Institute

Member of the Working Group on Parties and member of a ENCJ/ELI Joint Project on Court Based Dispute Resolution and ADR

Several years of teaching experience and as supervisor of Ph.D thesis in topics realted to European Civil Procedure

Professional experience as lawyer at the bar of Bruges (2001-2014)

Prof. Francesca Marinelli – Università degli Studi, Milan

Prof. Francesca Marinelli is a young academic specialized in Labour Law, recently appointed as Associate Professor at Unviersità degli Studi of Milan, with already a remarkable track record of important publications, research studies, speeches and affiliations.

She is author of two books which has been acclaimed by Italian Academia.

She has international experience: Visiting lecturer at the Univeristy of Kobe  (Japan) in 2021; Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) University of Cergy-Paris (France) in 2018, Visiting Scholar at the Centre of European Studies, University of Beijing (China) in 2014 and Visiting Scholar at Loyola University of Chicago (USA) (Fall Semester) in 2012.

She has extensively published on Labour Law in Italian, French and English, as well as a remarkable teaching experience (in Italian and English) in academic courses, Ph.D and LL.M. Programmes, Specialization courses, conferences, roundtable debates, summer schools, seminars and workshops. For a complete list of her lectures, speeches and intervention please visit https://work.unimi.it/chiedove/cv/francesca_marinelli.pdf

Skills and expertise relevant to the implementation of the project

She has experience in teaching couses in English (European Labour Law and Trade Liberalization and Labour Rights, Comparative Labour Law), often availing of the Programme “Erasmus Staff Mobility for Teaching” (at University of Cergy-Paris, 2019 and 2020)

She has a remarkable experience, as scientific coordinator or member, in numerous national and international research projects with international, comparative and EU-related profiles, such as: 2018 “Il divieto di discriminazione: Organizzazione internazionale del lavoro (OIL) versus Unione Europea (UE)” – “PIANO DI SOSTEGNO ALLA RICERCA UNIMI 2018 – LINEA 2 – AZIONEA”; 2017 – “La clausola sociale contro le discriminazioni sul lavoro negli accordi commerciali stipulati a latere dell’Organizzazione mondiale del commercio” – “PIANO DI SOSTEGNO ALLA RICERCA UNIMI 2015/2017 – LINEA 2 – AZIONE A”; 2018- present – “Dis/Connection: Labor and Rights in the Internet Revolution” – PROGRAMMA DI RICERCA DI RILEVANTE INTERESSE NAZIONALE (PRIN) 2017 (Coordinator Prof. D. Casale – Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna); 2018-present – “Appel à recherche 2018 – Formes d’économie collaborative et protection sociale” – project “Transformations sociales et économie numérique (TransSEN)” – French Ministry (Coordinator Prof. J. Dirringer – Rennes University 1- France; 2018-2017 – “Global Trade and Labour” – 7 Study Groups appointed by ISLSSL (International Society for Labour and Social Security Law) in view of the XXII ISLSSL WORLD CONGRESS Turin 2018 (Coordinators Proff. A. Perulli – Università ca’ foscari di Venezia and J. Bellace – Università della Pennsylvania – USA) 2009-2008 – “Il decentramento produttivo nella disciplina giuslavoristica italiana e spagnola: analisi comparata delle norme in tema di somministrazione di lavoro, appalti e trasferimento (di ramo) d’azienda” (Coordinator Prof. M.T. Carinci dell’Università degli Studi di Milano in cooperation with Prof. F. Perez de los Cobos – Università Complutense Madrid).

In her role as Member of the Internalization Commission, Erasmus Commission, Erasmus Placement Commission at University of Milan, Italy, as well as involvement  in the developing of the  Double degree programme between the University of Milan and the University of Cergy Paris, she is very much involved in the internationalization of legal education.

Prof. Pietro Ortolani – Radboud University, Nijmegen

Since 2021 – Full Professor of Digital Conflict Resolution, Radboud University, Nijmegen

Since 2018: Assistant Professor – Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where he teached European Commercial Law, European Private Law, Future Tech Law Clinic, International Arbitration, International Law Moot Court Competition, Principles of Finance and Secured Transactions

2014-2018: Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law

2015-2018: Course Leader and Team Coach, International Arbitration, University of Luxembourg, Master en Droit Européen LL.M.

2016: James Crawford Prize, awarded by the Oxford University Press and Journal of International Dispute Settlement – Youngest sole recipient in the history of the Prize

Ph.D. in Arbitration Law – LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome

2012: Qualified attorney-at-law – Italian Bar Association (Avvocato, foro di Lucca) 

Skills and expertise relevant to the implementation of the project

• Extensive experience in the field of Domestic, International, Comparative and European Civil Procedure, as well as in International Commercial and Investment Arbitration

• Member and supervisor of many Research Studies and Projects in EU Civil Procedure funded by the European Commission, while working at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg

• Winner of research grants, such as:

• 2019 – Future Tech Law Clinics – Erasmus+ Grant
  • 2018 – Member of the team securing a £1m 5-year Leicester/ESRC research project on The Social and Psychological Underpinnings of Commercial Arbitration in Europe (Tony Cole, Leicester Law School)

• He has acted as an expert for the European Parliament and the European Commission. Researcher/Drafter for the Study for the EU Jury Committee “Legal Instruments and Practice of Arbitration in the EU” – 2014

• Several publications in many peer-reviewed international journals, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Journal of International Dispute Settlement and the Leiden Journal of International Law, in the field of European Civil Procedure and International Dispute Resolution. Sample publications:

• Hess, Burkhard, Ortolani, Pietro, Impediments of National Procedural Law to the Free Movement of Judgments. Luxembourg Report on European Procedural Law Volume I, Beck/Hart 2019

• Ortolani, P., The Judicialization of the Blockchain. In I. Lianos & P. Hacker (Eds.), Regulating Blockchain. Techno-Social and Legal Challenges (pp. 289-310). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019

• Ortolani, P. & Cole, T., Understanding International Arbitration. London: Routledge 2018

• Ortolani, P., The Three Challenges of Stateless Justice. Journal of International Dispute Settlement, 7 (3), 596-627, 2016

• Ortolani, P., The Recast Brussels I Regulation and Arbitration. In L. Cadiet & B. Hess (Eds.), Procedural Science at the Crossroads of Different Generations (pp. 125-157). Baden-Baden: Nomos. 2015

• Ortolani, Pietro, ‘Intra-EU Arbitral Awards vis-à-vis Article 107 TFEU: State Aid Law as a Limit to Compliance’ vol. 6(1), Journal of International Dispute Settlement, 118-135, 2015

• Ortolani, Pietro, ‘Anti-suit Injunctions in Support of Arbitration Under the Recast Brussels I Regulation’ MPILux Working Paper 6, available at: www.mpi.lu, 2015

• Ortolani, Pietro (2017e), ‘Civil Appeals in England and Wales’ in Cecchella, Claudio, L’Appello Civile, Zanichelli, forthcoming

• Teaching experience in European Civil Procedure and EU Private International Law:

• Lecturer, European Private International Law and Civil Procedure, Europa-Institut, Saarbrücken, LL.M. Programme (2015 – 2018)

• Lecturer, University of Milan, Jean Monnet Programme ‘European Civil Procedure in a Comparative and Transnational Perspective’ (2016 – 2018)

• He regularly acts as reviewer for a wide range of international journals and publishers

He has gained professional experience as lawyer and arbitrator, in both ad hoc and institutional arbitration proceedings and in innovative teaching methodologies as coach of international moot court competitions (such as the Annual C. Vis Moot Court in Vienna for Radboud University’s students)

Prof. Marcello Stella – Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Since 2020 – Associate Professor, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

2020 – Admitted to the Italian Supreme Court bar

2018 – National scientific qualification as associate professor in Civil Procedure Law and in Private Law

2012 – PhD in Civil Procedure Law, Università degli Studi di Milano

2010 – Qualified attorney-at-law 

Member of the editorial boards and committees of legal reviews specialized in dispute resolution (Int’l Lis; Giurisprudenza Italiana; Responsabilità Civile e Previdenza; Diritto di Internet)

Skills and expertise relevant to the implementation of the project

• Almost twelve years of experience as practicing lawyer in the fields of domestic and trans-national litigation and arbitration.
• Several publications in many peer-reviewed journals in the field of European Civil Procedure and International Dispute Resolution.
• Author of several articles and case notes and of the books

 Profili processuali degli illeciti via internet. I. Giurisdizione, competenza, onere della prova (2020), Milan, Cedam-Wolters Kluwer;

Crisi bancarie e tutela giurisdizionale (2018), Rome, Aracne Editrice;

Lineamenti degli arbitri bancari e finanziari in Italia e in Europa (2016), Milan, Cedam-Wolters Kluwer.

Teaching experience in European Civil Procedure and EU Private International Law: 

• Lecturer, University of Milan, Jean Monnet Programme ‘European Civil Procedure in a Comparative and Transnational Perspective’ (2016 – 2018)

• Invited as lecturer: Doctoral Programme in Comparative and European Legal Studies of the Università degli Studi di Trento; Italian High School for Judiciary; Consiglio Nazionale Forense Course for appellate advocates.

Dr. Apostolos Anthimos – European University, Cyprus

Lecturer in European Civil Procedure – European University, Cyprus

Attorney at Law, Thessaloniki (Greece) – almost twenty years of experience as litigation lawyer in a primary Greek Law Firm, being involved in complex cases in the field of domestic, European and international civil procedure

Ph.D. in the field of International Litigation “Recognition and enforcement of foreign default judgments” – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 1998-2002

LL.M. in the Department for Civil Law, Civil Procedure and Labour Law – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 1995-1997

Magister Legum Europae (M.L.E.) [Master’s degree]  on European Procedural Law – University of Hanover, Germany, 1991-1994

Skills and expertise relevant to the implementation of the project

• Extensive experience as Expert for European Bodies and as Member of European Research and Study Projects in the field of European Civil Procedure:

• Training Expert for the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) in the field of Civil Procedure (esp. Taking of Evidence and Serivce of Process Abroad) (2019)

• National Expert – T.M.C. Asser Instituut, The Hague (Regulation Bla: a standard for free circulation of judgments and mutual trust in the EU – JUDGTRUST – JUST-JCOO-AG-2017) (2019)

• Treasurer, Founding and Steering Committee Member of EAPIL – The European Association of Private International Law [https://eapil.org/]

• National Rapporteur for Greece – Unalex Project (DG Justice), Munich – Multilingual information for the uniform interpretation of the instruments of judicial cooperation in civil matters (https://www.unalex.eu/Project/Project.aspx?Project=ExtendUnalex) – 2017

• Legal Expert and National Rapporteur for Greece and Cyprus – European Commission-funded Study (JUST/2014/RCON/PR/CIVI/0082) on the laws of national civil procedure of the 28 Member States and the enforcement of European Union consumer protection law – coordinated by the Max Planck Institute Luxemburg (Professor Hess) – 2016-2017

• Expert – Expert Group on Modernisation of Judicial Cooperation in Civil and Commercial Matters (JUST-A1-CIVIL-JUSTICE@ec.europa.eu) – Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers Civil Justice Unit (Ms Ilona Mazán), Brussels 2018

• Author of 3 monographs on European and International Dispute Resolution:

• “Recognition and enforcement of foreign default judgments”, Doctoral Thesis, 2002 (in Greek)
  • “Service of process abroad”, 2013 (in Greek)
  • “Foreign Judgments and Arbitral Awards”, 2014 (in Greek)

• Author of several publications (in several languages) in European Civil Procedure, Recognition and enforcement of foreign Judgments, Private International law, such as:

• Nichtanwendung der EuGVVO 2001 auf den Bescheid einer deutschen kassenärztlichen Vereinigung in Griechenland – LG Thessaloniki, 19.12.2017 – 19865/2017, IPRax 2019

• Commentary on Articles 17-26 Service Regulation, in: Arvanitakis/Vassilakakis (ed.), Regulation 1393/2007, A Commentary, (2018), pp. 187-279 (in Greek)

• Die Anwendung der Rom I Verordnung in Griechenland, IPRax 2018, pp. 294-298

• On the application of Art. 19.2 Service Regulation, International Journal of Procedural Law 2018, International Journal of Procedural Law 2018, pp. 150-153

• Die Anwendung der Rom II Verordnung in Griechenland, GPR 2017, pp. 142-147

• Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in parental responsibility matters, in: Association of Jurists in North Greece Vol. 72 (2016), pp. 185-200

• The protection of third parties pursuant Regulation Nr. 1346/2000, Corporation and Company Law Review 2015, 1215-1220 (in Greek)

• Europäisches Zivilprozessrecht in Griechenland – Überblick über die Rechtsprechung griechischer Gerichte in den Jahren 2012-2014, GPR 2015, pp. 291-295

• Reconocimiento y ejecución de sentencias extranjeras según el Reglamento Bruselas I en Grecia, Anuario Español de Derecho Internacional Privado 2014, pp. 587-607

• Recent case law of the ECJ on the application of Regulation 1346/2000, Armenopoulos 2010, 1627-1631 (in Greek)

Almost twenty years of experience as litigation lawyer in a primary Greek Law Firm, being involved in complex cases in the field of domestic, European and international civil procedure

Paolo Bruno – JHA Counsellor – Judicial Cooperation in Civil Matters – Permanent Representation of Italy to the EU, Brussels

Paolo Bruno is an Italian civil judge, currently seconded to the Permanent Representation of Italy to the EU as expert in the field of judicial cooperation in civil matters.

In this capacity he is involved at technical and political level in the negotiation of the European Regulations and Directives, advises the Italian Permanent Representative to the EU on aspects of civil Law and liaise with the relevant officials of the European Institutions.

In addition to a general competence in the field of Italian Law (civil, administrative, commercial) acquired through his working experiences as public servant, lawyer and judge, he has a specific competence in EU Law, Law-making process and interinstitutional relations developed during his work as Justice and Home Affairs Counsellor.

He is frequently invited as a lecturer to the Italian High School for Judiciary and is author of monographs and essays, particularly in the area of European Family Law, among which:

“Il contenzioso familiare tra Italia e Stati extra-europei”, Giuffré Francis Lefebvre ed., 2021

“Le notifiche all’estero in materia civile e commerciale”, Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre ed., 2020

“I regolamenti europei sui regimi patrimoniali dei coniugi e delle unioni registrate”, Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre ed., 2019

“Diritto di famiglia. Formulario Commentato” Contribution to a collective work: a commentary to Reg. (EU) n.2010/1259 (Rome III) and n.2003/2201 (Brussels IIa) as part of the Family Law Code edited by IPSOA – Wolters Kluwer ed., 2019

“Le controversie familiari nell’Unione Europea”, Giuffrè ed., 2018

“e-Justice: la giustizia elettronica nell’Unione Europea”, KEY ed., 2017

“Brevi note sull’ascolto del minore nella recente proposta di revisione del Reg. (CE) n.2201/2003 e la sua compatibilità con il best interest of the child”, Cultura e diritti, Pisa University Press ed., 2016

“OLIARI CONTRO ITALIA: La dottrina degli obblighi positivi impliciti al banco di prova delle unioni tra persone dello stesso sesso”, in Famiglia e Diritto, IPSOA ed., 2015

“L’attuazione del diritto di visita del minore da parte del genitore non affidatario, tra ostacoli reali e rimedi virtuali”, in Rivista di Diritto e Giurisprudenza Commentata, DIKE Giuridica ed., 2013

Since 2018 standing collaboration with publisher Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, including periodical publication of comments and essays on EU issues in “www.ilfamiliarista.it”, the main Italian online portal on Family Law