ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Prof. Michele Angelo Lupoi
Director (Member of the Scientific Direction)
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 (Ravenna Campus) and European judicial cooperation and Civil commercial litigation (Bologna Campus).
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 founded the Unibo | Ravenna Summer School on transnational litigation and has been its Director since 2019.
Prof. Marco Farina
Vice-Director (Member of the Scientific Direction)
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.