Academic Profile

I was an Erasmus student at the University of Amsterdam where I have been researching for my thesis degree and I graduated in law (1995) at the Faculty of Law of Campobasso University. Subsequently, I did postgraduate studies with a Master’s degree in Integration and Unification of Law in Europe and in Latin America (1997), a PhD in Roman Law System and Unification of Law in Europe and in Latin America (2001), both at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, and three years Specialization Degree in Civil Law at the University of Camerino (2003).

I have been a researcher of Comparative Civil Law at the Center of Latin-American Legal Studies (National Research Council - University of Rome "Tor Vergata") with Dr. Prof. Sandro Schipani since 2001. During more than ten years I have deepened the analysis concerning characters, rules and principles of civil law tradition, throughout I developed a specific interest in Latin American Law.

In 2005 I started teaching at the University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, where I became an Associate professor through a competition (‘idoneità’) that had been launched in 2008. In 2018 I started working as an Associate professor of Comparative Private Law at the DILHPS of Milan University, and was an International Affairs Department Delegate (2019-2023). March 1, 2025 marks the beginning of my tenure as a Full Professor in Comparative Private Law.

I have been awarded the Jean Monnet Chair from the European Commission (Erasmus + programme) with Project ENFASIS for the years 2020-2023.

I have been a member of the “Società Italiana per la Ricerca nel Diritto Comparato” (SIRD), founded by Prof. Rodolfo Sacco which represents a vast knowledge resource of my academic growth; thanks to him I tried to combine all my different passions and convey them together to make them my job, especially regarding anthropological legal studies and researches for Indigenous rights in Latin America.

During twenty years of academic life, I have developed many curiosities and created links with colleagues from Italian and foreign Universities. I am Editor of the Book series ‘Roma e America. Sistema giuridico latinoamericano. Studi’ (ESI, Napoli).