ORGANISING COMMITTEE

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 other related topics at the Bologna and Ravenna Campuses of the University of Bologna.

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 (EAPIL). 

Prof. Lupoi coaches the Vis Moot and the Pax Moot Teams of the University of Bologna since 2020 and founded the Unibo | Ravenna Summer School on transnational litigation and has been its Director since 2019. 

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 regularly lectures and speaks at academic and professional conferences and he has published in different areas of domestic and transnational civil procedure and insolvency law.

He is a Lawyer of the Rome Bar Association and is entitled to practice before the Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) since 2016. His areas of practice are litigation in commercial and corporate matters, 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. 

Prof. Farina has been Vice-Director of the Unibo | Ravenna Summer School on transnational litigation since 2019.

 Barbara Cazzani is a fifth-year student enrolled in the combined Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Law at the University of Pavia.

She has participated in the last two editions of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, an experience that allowed her to discover the field of international arbitration, which she quickly became very passionate about. 

She is eager to further develop her knowledge in this area and hopes to pursue a future career in it.

Last year, she attended the Ravenna Summer School on Cross-Border Litigation and International Arbitration and now she returns as the Summer School's tutor.