PROFESSOR BRUNO N. SASSANI
PERSONAL BACKGROUND AND QUALIFICATIONS
I. Personal Background and Qualifications
I am emeritus professor of “Tor Vergata” University in Rome where, as tenure, I have taught Civil Procedural Law for 22 years. Presently, I still keep teaching the same class.
I can rightly say that I am publicly recognised as a distinguished scholar in the fields of Italian and European Civil Procedural Law, Jurisdiction, Private International Law, Arbitration and Administrative Judicial Review.
My scientific and academic credentials are the following :
A. Teaching and research experience
• Graduated Maxima Cum Laude, University of Perugia in 1973
• Assistant Professor, in the University of Perugia from 1977 to 1984 and in the University of Roma “Tor Vergata” from 1984 to 1986
• Former Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics, University of Naples “Federico II” from 1986 to 1993
• Former Full Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Catanzaro “Magna Graecia” from 1993 to 21997
• Former Full Professor in the University of Perugia from 1997 to 2000
• Former member of Panel of the European Commission for the drafting and planning of the First Directive on the subject of Consumer’s Class Action
• Former member of the team – directed by late Prof. P. Kaye, Department of Law, University of Wales Swansea, UK – for collective research upon European Case Law on Judgement Convention
• Present member of the (French speaking) International “Groupe de recherche Tarzia” for the comparison of models of Civil Procedure Laws in Europe
• Former Chairman of the International Conference “Consumer Access to Justice”, First European Consumer Forum, Bruxelles, 1994
B. Publications
• Author of more than 200 publications in the fields of civil procedure, arbitration, and judicial review (including monographs, treatises, essays, papers, Encyclopaedia items, case notes), in Italian, English and French
• Author of a widespread two-volume textbook of Italian Civil Procedural Law: Lineamenti del processo civile italiano, Giuffrè publ., 8th edition, Milano, 2021
C. Editorial boards memberships
• Member of the Board of Editors of some of the main Italian Reviews in the field of Civil Procedure, Jurisdiction and Administrative Judicial Review (Rivista di Diritto Processuale, Rassegna dell’Esecuzione Forzata, Diritto Processuale Amministrativo etc.).
• Co-editor of Trattato delle procedure concorsuali [Treatise on Bankruptcy and Insolvency Procedures] (five volumes), Giuffrè (publ.), Milano 2014-2018
• Editor and Director of Il processo civile in Italia e in Europa www.judicium.it/
• Member of the Board of Civil Procedure Review www.civilprocedurereview.com/
• Co-editor (from 1995) of the book series Biblioteca del diritto processuale civile, Giappichelli (publ.), Torino
• Editor of the book series Quaderni di Judicium, Pacini (publ.), Pisa