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 (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. 

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.

Francesca Albi is Research Collaborator at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Milan) and Trainee Lawyer of the Milan Bar Association. 

She graduated summa cum laude in Law at the University of Verona, with a dissertation in private international law and human rights. 

She carried out numerous international experiences of study and work. Among them, she was Legal Intern at the Hague Conference on Private International Law - Permanent Bureau (Family Law team) and Research Assistant at the Department of Law of the National University of Ireland Maynooth. She is also an alumna scholarship-winner of the Hague Academy of International Law (Private International Law session) and took part, both as student and team coach, in relevant international moot court competitions. 

Dott.ssa Albi matured experience in summer schools in Italy and abroad. As far as the Unibo | Ravenna Summer School on transnational litigation is concerned, she was Tutor in the 2023 edition and then became Scientific Coordinator. 

Michele Sacco is a fifth year law student at the Bocconi University of Milan. 

He is writing his final dissertation in commercial and company law.

He engaged in several international and extra-curricular activities. For instance, he attended a term during high school at the Takapuna Grammar School in Auckland (New Zealand) and he has been a member of the Bocconi team for the 2023 – 2024 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. He also carried out a one-year long internship at the Bocconi Legal Clinic in San Siro, Milan.

Michele Sacco attended the Unibo | Ravenna Summer School on transnational litigation in 2023, and then became the Tutor of the 2024 edition.