Our final Meet the Author segment in this year’s issue of the Digest chronicles Giovanni Iudica. Professor Iudica is one of Italy’s premier scholars in the civil law as it relates to contracts, procurement, non-profit organizations, and insurance.

Iudica was born on April 21, 1944. He graduated cum laude with a doctorate from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, where he wrote a dissertation called “Succession upon death in a right of appeal in cases of multiple heirs.” He was a Private Law professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics of the Istituto Universitario di Bergamo from 1974 to 1980. He also taught law at the University of Parma from 1980 to 1982. From 1982 to 1989, he taught law at the University of Pavia. He now teaches Civil Law at Bocconi University, where he is the dean of the law school.

Iudica holds a number of prestigious positions in Italy. He serves as Vice President of Milan’s Jury of Advertising Ethics Institute. He is a member of the Association for a European Law Institute, the European Society of Construction Law, and the Scientific Committee of the National Center for Prevention and Social Defense. Iudica is also president of the Italian Institute for the Construction Law.

Additionally, Professor Iudica is a prolific legal author. He is an editor of legal journals Responsabilità civile e previdenza and Antologia, and also serves on the editorial board for La nuova giurisprudenza civile commentate. Iudica has also contributed as an editor on the ll trittico series of textbooks.

For more information on this author:

http://www.iudica.it/

Our next look at this year’s Digest authors explores the work and background of Massimiliano Granieri.  Doctor Granieri is a professor of Comparative Private Law as well as Economic Analysis of Law at the University of Foggia Law School.  He also leads the law school’s program of on-campus technology transfer activities and university-industry relationships, and is the vice president of MI.TO. Technology.

Granieri graduated summa cum laude from the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, where he earned a law degree.   He later earned a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Law from the University of Florence.  In 2002, he was awarded a Jemolo Fellowship from the Nuffield College of the University of Oxford.

Granieri has worked for the Office of Technology Transfer at the University of California in Oakland.  He also helped start Torino Wireless, the first Italian technological district, and has been Head of the Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Department since 2003.  He is currently a board member of the Network for the Valorization of Research (Netval), as well as ARTI Puglia.  Granieri was a consultant for the European Patent Academy of the European Patent Office, and is now a member of the European IP Expert Group of the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission.

As an accomplished author, Granieri has published multiple works dealing with intellectual property, technology transfer, antitrust, and economic analysis of law.  Recently he co-authored “Innovation Law and Policy in the European Union:  Towards Horizon 2020” with Andrea Renda.  This book gives an overview of innovation policy in Europe today, predictions about what it will look like in the future, and proposals for how to improve the European Union’s framework of innovation policy.

Our next look at this year’s Digest authors explores the work and background of Roberto Pardolesi.  Professor Pardolesi is one of the foremost Italian scholars of antitrust, comparative law, and economic analysis of law.  In the 1970’s he was one of the first Italian scholars to apply an interdisciplinary approach to the study of law and economics.

In 1971, Pardolesi graduated cum laude from the University of Bari, majoring in Political Science.  He became an assistant researcher at the Private Law Institute of the University of Bari in 1974.  He was later awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, and in 1975 earned an LL.M. from the University of Chicago Law School.  In 1977-78, Pardolesi was awarded a Council of Europe Fellowship in Munich, Germany.  He became a professor of comparative law at the University of Palermo Law School in 1980, and in 1983 he took a position at the University of Bari Law School.

Since 1989, Pardolesi has been a professor of comparative law and private law at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome.  He is a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, the European Association of Law and Economics, and the Italian Association of Comparative Law.  At LUISS, Pardolesi has contributed to the Impact Study on Private Enforcement that was commissioned by the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission.

As a very accomplished author, Pardolesi has written hundreds of articles and several books.  The recently published “Competition Law and Intellectual Property:  A European Perspective,” featured Pardolesi’s Single-Firm Conduct:  A Discipline in Search of Itself (Kluwer Law International, 2012); and Pardolesi’s Monopoly Agreements and Abuse of Dominance:  Some Remarks About the Substantive Rules, was featured in the book “Competition Policy and Regulation:  Recent Developments in China, the US and Europe” (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011).  Pardolesi is an editor of Foro Italiano, Mercato Concorrenza Regole, and Danno e Responsabilità, and on the editorial board of many other legal journals.

For more information:

http://www.imtlucca.it/whos_at_imt/personal_page.php?p=155

http://www.law-economics.net/?page_id=56

http://docenti.luiss.it/pardolesi/

Our first glimpse into this year’s Digest authors explores the work and background of Mauro Guiseppe Barberis.  Professor Barberis is an Italian legal scholar focusing on history and legal theory and has published many works on the subjects.  After graduating from law school at the University of Genoa in 1980, Barberis began working at various institutes at the University of Genoa, including the Institute of Constitutional Law and Materials for a History of Legal Culture, a magazine he currently co-directs.

In 1983, Professor Barberis was granted a fellowship at the University of Calabria, where he taught seminars focusing on Constitutional Law.  While at Calabria, Barberis spent a sabbatical studying Benjamin Constant in Paris, resulting in his book Benjamin Constant: Revolution, Constitution, Progress (Princeton, Bologna, 1988).

In 1987, the University of Trieste made Barberis an associate professor of the Law School, where he taught Philosophy of Law.  Barberis published multiple articles in this post as a faculty member, including Law As Behavior (Giappichelli, Turin, 1988), Seven Studies On Revolutionary Liberalism, and Law as Speech and Like Behavior.

He also held faculty posts at the University of Bologna, and has been back to both the University of Trieste and the University of Genoa as a visiting professor, teaching on the history of Italian Law, the sociology of law, and general theory of law.  In addition to teaching, Barberis has held the post of editor for various publications including the magazine, “Il Mulino”, Political Philosophy and “Practical Reason, which he also co-founded in 1993.

Since becoming a full professor at Trieste, Barberis has published three legal text books used in many Italian universities, including Philosophy of Law: A Theoretical Introduction (Giappichelli, Turin, 2003), A Brief History of the Philosophy of the Right (Il Mulino, Bologna, 2004) and Ethics for Lawyers (Penguin, Harmondsworth Bari, 2005).  Barberis also devotes time to lecturing at various conferences and doctoral courses in Italy, Belgium, France and Spain.  He currently directs the Trieste Research Group and is working on a new legal textbook, Lawyers and Philosophers.