FACULTY

Apostolos Anthimos is Attorney at law, Thessaloniki Bar, Greece; working languages: English, German, Spanish; Greek.

Ph.D. in International Civil Litigation (Aristotle University Thessaloniki, 2002); two masters of Laws from the University of Hanover, Germany (1994) and Thessaloniki (1997).

Four monographs on Civil Procedure and Conflict of Laws; co-editor and main author of the volume ‘The EU Service Regulation, a Commentary (Edward Elgar, 2023); co-author of Civil Procedure in Greece, 3rd edition, IEL (Kluwer law international, 2023).

Various publications on topics related to European & International PIL, Arbitration and Dispute resolution, EU law and Civil Procedure.

Contact point, European Judicial Network in civil matters; Member of the UIHJ Expert Panel. European Judicial Training Network and Hellenic School of Magistrates Instructor; Trainer of Judges, lawyers, and MoJ staff in East & Southeastern Europe, Africa, Middle East, Central & Southeastern Asia.

Panelist at the Czech Arbitration Court [.eu ADR].

Editor for PIL, European & International Civil Procedure in the following law reviews: European Legal Forum; Thessaloniki Bar Review “Armenopoulos”; Civil Procedure Law Review (GR); Commercial Law Survey (GR).

Editor in chief in: Lex & Forum – a law review on conflict of laws (GR). Co-editor, www.conflictoflaws.net / www.eapil.org/blog; founding, Board and Steering Committee Member of the European Association of Private International Law. Member of EU expert groups (DG JUSTICE AND CONSUMERS) on: Modernization of Judicial Cooperation in Civil and Commercial Matters (2018); Expert Group against SLAPP [Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation] (2021).

CoE expert: Legal aid and legal representation (2020-2021).

Accounts: https://independent.academia.edu/ApostolosAnthimos; SSRN [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/1735857]. International Civil Litigation in Greece: blog featuring reports on Greek case law [ https://icl-in-greece.blogspot.gr].

Davide Castagno is a Research Fellow at the University of Turin, Department of Law, where he teaches courses in Procedural Law and International Litigation.

Author of several contributions on civil procedure in national and international journals, he has also published a monograph on the inadmissibility in the Italian Supreme court proceedings.

He has been Visiting Scholar at the University of Aix-Marseille, Visiting PhD student at the University of Nice and Tallinn University of Technology, as well as Scientific Guest at the Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law of Luxembourg.

He is a member of the Associazione Italiana tra gli Studiosi del Processo Civile and the International Association of Procedural Law.

Giovanni Chiapponi is Doctor in Law at the Universities of Luxembourg and Bologna.

His area of expertise deals with EU procedural law and private international law.

Giovanni obtained his PhD under the joint supervision of Professor Burkhard Hess and Professor Paolo Biavati.

His thesis explores possible legal solutions to remove the obstacles to the free circulation of judgments in the civil justice area that arise from the diverging national rules on procedural time limits.

Elena D’Alessandro is Full Professor of Civil Procedure at the University of Turin, Italy.

Before joining the University of Turin, she received a Humboldt Fellowship for conducting academic research in Germany.

In fall semester 2019, she was co- director of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London.

Her scholarship mainly focuses on European civil procedure.

Marco Farina is Adjunct Professor (Professore a contratto) of Civil procedure at the Law faculty of University of Rome La Sapienza and of L.U.I.S.S. Guido Carli of Rome. He also teaches International Arbitration at the European University of Rome.

He holds a PhD degree in Civil Procedure from the Sapienza University of Rome (2007).

He regularly lectures and speaks at academic and professional conferences.

He is author of one book and around 60 papers covering different areas of civil procedure (both domestic and transnational) and insolvency law.

He is a practicing lawyer since 2003 and has been entitled to practice before the Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) since 2016.

His areas of practice are litigation in commercial and corporate matters (both before national courts and arbitrators), insolvency related matters and corporate and banking contractual transactions.

He is a member of the European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL) and of the Associazione Italiana fra gli Studiosi del Processo Civile (AISPC).

He coaches teams of University of Bologna for the Vis Moot competition and the Pax Moot Competition. 

Francesca Ferrari is Associate Professor of Civil Procedural Law at Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Como-Varese (Italy). 

She has been visiting professor at the Harvard Law School and at the University of Maastricht.

She is author of four books and of various publications on civil procedure, evidence, comparative civil procedure and intellectual property, both in Italian and in English.

She had been designated by the Italian Foreign Affairs Ministry as the Italian expert in intellectual property and consumer protection at the Italian Permanent Representation at the EU and thus she is working in the European Council.

She is also a lawyer at the Milan Bar specialized in intellectual property and media law.

Pietro Franzina holds the Chair of Private International Law at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.

He is among the founding members of the European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL) and currently sits in the board of the Association.

His publications deal, inter alia, with international contracts and torts, family matters and the law of persons.

Paola Giacalone is a PhD researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and at the University of Naples Federico II.

She is also a member to the DIKE research group (Digitalization and Access to justice).

She researches mainly on evaluating the use and efficacy of private international law, as well as online (alternative) dispute resolution models to promote access to justice.

She has been involved in several EU projects including EFFORTS, SCAN II and CREA II.

She post graduated at the school of Legal Profession at the University Guglielmo Marconi (Rome) and LL.B from Naples University of FedericoII.

She is also a legal practitioner as a member of the Italian Bar.

Albert Henke is Associate Professor of Civil Procedure at Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy).

His main areas of scientific interests are domestic, European, international and comparative civil procedure, international commercial and investment arbitration, private international law and legal advocacy, in respect of which he has authored more than 50 publications, in Italian and in English.

He has won two EU-funded three-year long Jean Monnet Module projects in the field of European civil procedure (2015-2018 and 2020-2023) and is the founder and scientific coordinator of Centre of Research on Domestic, European and Transnational Dispute Settlement (DEuTraDiS).

In 2016-2018 he has been National Reporter for Italy (along with Prof. Remo Caponi, Florence University) for an EU Evaluation Study commissioned by the European Commission of the European Union and coordinated by the Max Planck Institute, Luxembourg on the topic: “Impact of National Procedural Laws and Practices on the free circulation of judgements and on the equivalence and effectiveness of the procedural protection of consumers under EU law”.

He is member of several editorial board and specialization courses’ teaching committees.

Anastasia Kalantzi holds a PhD in Civil Procedure from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and is currently a postdoctoral researcher on the execution of conservatory and provisional measures.

She holds an LLM from the London School of Economics and Political Science, as well as the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the International Hellenic University.

During her PhD studies, she conducted research in Luxemburg (MPI), as well as the US (US Business Law Academy at Columbia University, New York) and she taught seminars in civil procedure at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

She is the author of two monographs, as well as a number of contributions, academic articles and case comments, on topics related to civil procedure, private international law, arbitration and dispute resolution, both in Greek and English.

She is a member of the European Association of Private International Law and a practicing lawyer in Greece.

Michele Angelo Lupoi is Full Professor at the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna and Lawyer of the Bologna Bar Association.

He teaches Civil procedural law and European judicial cooperation and Civil commercial litigation.

He has written extensively in matters of transnational litigation, cross-border jurisdiction, procedural family law, and other areas of civil procedure.

He is an editor of the International journal of civil procedure and of the Rivista trimestrale di diritto e procedura civile and is a member of the Associazione italiana tra gli studiosi del processo civile, the International association of procedural law, and the European Association of Private International Law. 

Alberto Malatesta is Professor of International Law at the University Cattaneo of Castellanza, Italy.

He has been acting as Secretary General of the Italian Branch of the International Law Association since 2013.

He is a member of the Milan Bar and his practice focuses on international litigation and international commercial arbitration.

He regularly serves as independent arbitrator under the major institutional arbitration rules (UNCITRAL, ICC, CAM etc.)

He served as Italian delegate at the Hague Conference of Private International Law (2005-2007).

He held several courses and conferences on private international law and arbitration law at various law schools and institutions through Europe and South America.

Edith N. Nordmann is Managing Partner and Attorney at Law at ACG International and chairperson of the Netherland India Chamber of Commerce and Trade (NICCT).

She is an experienced corporate and commercial litigator, has an expert qualification in employment law, is an international ADR-certified mediator and specialised in cross-border business transactions.

As Managing Partner of ACG International, Edith can combine all these skills and expertise for the benefit of her international clients.

As a public speaker she has shared her knowledge on various international conferences. Her professional journey is further enriched by her contributions to international task forces and notable speaking engagements at global platforms such as the B20/G20 and the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Aside from her professional career, Edith engages in many charitable and social organisations using her professional expertise, not only helping others but also empowering them in their endeavours.

She is sharing her knowledge and empowering the young generations of professionals by way of mentoring and giving guest-lectures at various universities.

Edoardo Piermattei is a Ph.D. Candidate in Legal Studies at the University of Bologna, specializing in Civil Procedural Law, Insolvency Law, and Private International Law.

In his doctoral dissertation, he studies the role of International Commercial Courts in the Middle East Litigation Market as a new era of international economic law and adjudication.

His research focuses on questions such as the cross-border Insolvency Regulation, the banking macroprudential oversight of the EU financial system, and the prevention and mitigation of systemic risk.

Before joining the University of Bologna, Edoardo worked as a legal intern at the Bank of Italy in the "Financial Banking Arbitrator Division” (Bologna) and then, in the "Regulation and Macroprudential Analysis Division” (Rome).

Ilaria Petrelli is a Scientific Associate at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne and Advisor at the European Law Institute in Vienna.

A former lawyer at the Pesaro Bar, she was Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies in charge of organising the Séminaire de droit comparé et européen at the University of Urbino together with the French Centre of the same name.

A member of the Comité français de droit international privé, co-Editor of the Yearbook of Private International Law, collaborator of the Revue critique de droit international privé and member of the editorial board of the Cuadernos de derecho transnacional.

She has taught private international law and comparative law in France and Switzerland and, public international law and European Union law in Italy, also as Visiting Professor (Paris, Tel Aviv and Bergamo).

She has directed, on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office of Justice, two comparative law reports on, respectively, the transcriptibility in Switzerland of foreign marriages and partnerships and the equivalence of foreign succession certificates.

She took part in the work on the reform of several relevant european regulations and conventions.

Olga Słomińska is a PhD candidate at Université Côte d'Azur in Nice, in the Research Group in Law, Economics and Management.

She has been awarded two master degrees from Polish and French business law, by the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Université de Poitiers respectively.

Her academic focus includes European and international commercial law, as well as comparative studies of European legislation, as part of which she has published in two monographs and presented on numerous conferences of both national and international scope.

She recently participated in a research project at the Chinese University of Hong Kong concerning the impact of global infrastructural projects on the development standards in international commercial law. In the past she also received scholarships from the Université Paris-Saclay and Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

She is currently the editor of Adam Mickiewicz University Law Review, a peer-refereed journal.

Andrea Spada Jimenez is Professor of Procedural Law, Criminal and Civil Proceedings at the University of Malaga (Spain).

She holds an international PhD in Law cum laude and has been awarded the prize for the best doctoral thesis.

She is the author of several publications, most notably her book "Climate Justice and Procedural Efficiency".

She has coordinated other works on the current procedural system, as well as authoring journal articles.

She is a lead researcher on a project on Sustainable Development Goals and is also a member of several research projects.

She is an editor member in certain research journals and she also has carried out international research stays for several months in other prestigious Universities at Italy, Spain and United States.

Maja Stanivuković is Full Professor of Private International Law and International Arbitration at the Novi Sad University Faculty of Law, as well as Vice-President of the Belgrade Arbitration Center.

She holds a Magister of Law Degree and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Novi Sad, an LL.M. from the Cornell University and Diplôme d’Université de troisième cycle de droit nucléaire international from Université de Montpellier.

She has an extensive background as an arbitrator.

She is a member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration and the Serbian Arbitration Association.

She has taught a special course at the Hague Academy of International Law and her monograph on this subject is set to be published soon in the Hague Academy Recueil de Cours.

Marco Torsello is Full Professor of Comparative Private Law and European Private Law at the University of Verona, as well as Hauser Global Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law.

He is name partner at ArbLit and leads the department of litigation.

He was Visiting Professor at NYU Law School, Bucerius Law School (Hamburg), Sciences Po (Paris), Fordham Law School, Columbia Law School, the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, the University of Paris Ouest – Nanterre La Défense, the University of Western Ontario, Loyola Law School Los Angeles, Loyola University Chicago, as well as at several Italian universities.

He was also a Guest Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg and a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School.

In 2000, he served as the Italian Delegate at UNCITRAL Working Group on International Contract Practices.

His teaching activity covers several subjects, including Comparative Private Law, International Contracts, European and International Business Transactions.

He is the author of several books and articles in English and Italian dealing with comparative law, international business transactions, international contracts and other issues.

Anna Wysocka-Bar is an Assistant Professor at the Center of Private International Law at the Law Faculty of the Jagiellonian University (Poland).

She is the coordinator of the EU co-funded Jean Monnet Module on Transport Law in the EU (EUTransLaw).

She co-authored a monograph "Private International Law in Poland", Wolters Kluwer: Alphen aan den Rijn 2020.

Anna is an ordinary member of the European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL) and one of the editors of the EAPIL blog.

She also collaborates as an analyst with EU Law Live platform.

She has given guest lectures on judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters in the EU in many different institutions in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and also Egypt, Jordan, China. She was a visiting professor at Università degli Studi di Parma.

She has served as a national reporter for EU Studies on recognition of parenthood and operation of Brussels I bis Regulation.

Anna is a licensed attorney at law and a licensed tax advisor with years of experience in tax and legal consulting.

Guodong Yang is Associate Professor who teaches and researches on the China Administrative Law, Legal English and European Public Law and gives English-taught courses to international students in Southwest University of Political Science and Law (SWUPL) in Chongqing, China on the following topics: Special Topics on Modern Chinese Law; Chinese Legal System and Human Rights Law in China.

He has worked in the Southwest University of Political Science and Law (SWUPL, Chongqing Municipality, China), after receiving his doctoral degree on EU Law (Magna cum Laude) from the University of Hamburg (Germany).

He has obtained the legal profession qualification in China and works as an part-time lawyer.

From 1994 up to 2018, Salvatore Domenico Zannino collaborated as an Honorary Fellow with the chair of European Union Law and International Law at the Catholic University of Milan “Sacro Cuore” where he held a series of lectures and seminars on a rolling annual basis, in particular in the EU competition law field. Graduated in law from the same university with a thesis curried at the Columbia University of New York, he studied at LSE of London, King's College, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He regularly publishes scientific contributions on international trade and European integration in legal reviews and national newspapers. Lawyer in Milan and funding partner of “Lexxint”, he is current deputy-president of the Italian International Lawyers ass. ("Camera Internazionale").