PhD in IUS CIVILE. HISTORY AND THEORY OF
PRIVATE LAW

email: elisabetta.rosafio@uniroma2.it
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Elisabetta Rosafio is a full professor of Air and Maritime Law at the Department of Law of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. She is a member of the Departmental Teaching Commission as well as the University Quality Assurance Presidium.
She previously (2012-2024) held the position of full professor of Navigation and Transport Law at the Department of Law of the University of Teramo, where she also taught Aerospace Law. She was also a researcher at the same university (2000-2012).
Her studies range from maritime, air, and land transport contracts (contract of carriage, carrier liability, techniques for protecting the parties, chartering and leasing contracts, etc.), to aerospace law, infrastructure financing and management systems, strategies for reducing emissions from means of transport, issues relating to the use of alternative fuels; technical-nautical services with particular reference to pilotage contracts; immigration by sea.
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From 2013 until 2019, she was a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Teramo for Area 12 and of the University Central Electoral Commission, where she was President.
On November 21, 2016, by decree no. 480, she became a member of the Commission responsible for integrating and revising the University Statute and certain internal regulations. This Commission aims to ensure consistency among these documents and to prepare the Code of Ethics.
In July 2023, she was appointed Vice-President of the Italian Association of Navigation and Transport Law. She serves on the Board for the PhD program in Processes of Harmonisation of Law between History and System at the University of Teramo, starting from the 19th cycle.
Previously, she was a member of the Board for the PhD program in Law and Economics of Production Systems, Transport, and Logistics at the University of Udine. In 2013, she was appointed as the representative of the University of Teramo on the Board of Directors of CoNISMa (Inter-University Consortium for Marine Sciences). This appointment was renewed for the three-year periods of 2016-2019, 2019-2023, and is set to continue through 2023-2025. Additionally, she was a member of the Commission for Quality Assurance of Departmental Research at the Department of Law at the University of Teramo,
She served as a member of the Commission for Quality Assurance of Departmental Research in the Department of Law at the University of Teramo. Additionally, she is a member of the editorial board of the journal *Rivista del Diritto della Navigazione* (Class A) and is part of the scientific committees for the *Revista de Derecho del Transporte*, the *Rivista Italiana di Diritto del Turismo*, and the journal *Diritto dei Trasporti* (Class A).
She also holds the position of corresponding member for Italy in the Asociación Latino Americana de Derecho Aeronáutico y Espacial.
In 2004, she was a member of the Review Commission for the Reform of the Aeronautical Part of the Navigation Code, which was established at the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure. She has participated in significant scientific research programs of national interest, serving both as the head of local research units and as a contributor (PRIN 2020, 2012, 2009, 2007, 2004, 2002, 1998), and has been involved in various university research projects. Moreover, she has been a member of numerous comparative evaluation committees for researchers, admissions to PhD courses, final examinations for obtaining research doctorates, and research grants, and coordinated continuous collaborations. She is the author of two monographs and over seventy articles published in leading legal journals, both in Italy and abroad. Additionally, she has participated as a speaker and session chair at numerous conferences.