PRESENTATION
The relevance of cross-border civil litigation is growing.
The diffusion of world-wide online activities, the higher mobility of people and families across national borders, the globalisation of economic and financial activities have contributed to increase the relevance of transnational disputes.
Such disputes present complicated issues of jurisdiction, applicable law, available remedies, recognition and enforcement of foreign decisions and it is fundamental, for both law students and law practitioners, to have a deep understanding of this dimension.
Several years ago, the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna started a specific program dedicated to this area of the law: the Ravenna Summer School on cross-border litigation and international arbitration.
It all started in 2019, when Prof. Michele Angelo Lupoi decided to create, at the University's Ravenna Campus, a space for discussion and dialogue on cross-border litigation. His goal was to create a community of scholars and enthusiasts of this area of the law, to study and discuss issues of common interest, in a convivial atmosphere.
A Summer School was considered to be the best instrument to create such a community: an intensive event, of necessarily concentrated duration, to create a community for studying and researching.
The place was immediately identified in the city of Ravenna, an ancient imperial capital, rich in history and culture, where Dante's poetry meets the joy of living of the Romagnola Riviera.
In July 2019, therefore, the first edition of the Summer School was held. After a “ghost” second edition in 2020, year after year, the Summer School established itself as an important reality in the field of private international law.
Every year, the Ravenna Summer School offers a different program, in an effort to always bring something new to the participants (especially because several of them keep returning, year after year!).
Since 2024, the program combines topics of transnational litigation before State courts and international arbitration.
While at the core of the program lies the European space of justice and its private international law regulations, the comparative and international perspective has strengthened over time, with several lecturers coming from non EU countries.
The approach is both theoretical and practical: lectures mix with workshop and also with roundtables dedicated to specific topics.
The Faculty of the Summer School is composed of experts from different jurisdictions with very diverse professional and cultural backgrounds.
The Director of the School is Prof. Michele Angelo Lupoi, who teaches Civil Procedural Law at the University of Bologna. The Vice-Director of the School is Marco Farina, Adjunct Professor of Civil Procedural Law in Rome.
The Ravenna Summer School is directed at law students as well as law graduates and law practitioners who want to obtain a specialised knowledge in this complex and fascinating area of international civil procedure.
It is possible to attend the Ravenna Summer School both in person and online.
For information on the program, please contact the Director, Prof. Michele Angelo Lupoi, at micheleangelo.lupoi@unibo.it.
If you need specific information to participate or after the application, please address your e-mail to the Tutor, Zsofia Ancsin, at zsofia.ancsin2@unibo.it.
A certificate of attendance will be released to every participant at the end of the Summer School.
In September 2022, a newsletter called "Transnational litigation pills" was created on Linkedin, as a virtual companion to the Ravenna Summer School.
It aims at letting jurists from all over the world present, all through the year, their views about the topics which the Summer School is dedicated to, to spread information, start discussions, share opinions, expand the network of Private International Law and Cross-Border Litigation enthusiasts.
The call for contributions to the newsletter is always open.
It is possible to read the newsletter editions and to subscribe to it at this link: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6963604527434354688/
It is also possible to follow news, activities and information about the Ravenna Summer School on transnational litigation on Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/86636461/admin/dashboard/
In 2025, the Summer School on “Cross-border litigation and international arbitration” will take place from 13 to 19 July.
The Ravenna Bar Association will grant 20 formative credits to Italian lawyers who participate in the Summer School (2024 ed.), which will be indicated also in the certificate of attendance.
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The Ravenna Summer School is NOT just the Summer School. There is much more to our activities than the week of lectures and workshops which takes place each July, since 2019, in the beautiful historic town of Ravenna, close to the Adriatic shoreline. In particular, every year, the RSS organises several free webinars about selected topics of PIL / International arbitration / Comparative procedural law in preparation of the Summer School (which, in 2025, will take place from 13 to 19 July). This year, we have the privilege of starting this series of warm-up webinars with Eleonora Rosati, a world renown expert of IP and especially copyright law, talking about: "EU copyright: Substantial and procedural reach well beyond beyond the EU". Eleonora Rosati is Full Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Stockholm University and Of Counsel at Bird & Bird. She holds guest/visiting positions at several other institutions, including Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Queen Mary University of London, KDI School of Public Policy and Management, CEIPI-Université de Strasbourg, Trinity College Dublin, EDHEC Business School, Glion Institute of Higher Education, and Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law - University of Cambridge. She is Editor of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (Oxford University Press), long-standing contributor to and editor of The IPKat, and Co-Founder of Fashion Law London. The author of several scholarly articles and books on IP issues, including - most recently - Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union (Oxford University Press:2023, 2nd edn) and Copyright in the Digital Single Market. Article-by-Article Commentary to the Provisions of Directive 2019/790 (Oxford University Press: 2021), Eleonora regularly prepares technical briefings and expert opinions and delivers talks at the request of inter alia international organizations and EU institutions and agencies, as well as national governments and professional bodies and organizations. She has received multiple accolades and prizes for her work in the IP field and has been featured in prominent media outlets, including inter alia The New York Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, CNN, BBC, and Politico.
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