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Valeria Di Nisio PhD is Associate Professor of «Roman Law and Rights of Antiquity» (IUS/18), and Professor of «Legal History of Free and Servile Labour» at the University of Naples Federico II. She is co-teacher of «Institutions of Roman Law» (IUS/18) in the Luiss Law degree course. She is PhD in «Discipline Romanistiche (Roman Law and Rights of Antiquity)» (XVII cycle) with administrative seat at the University of Palermo since 18 April 2007, with a thesis on «‘Servum procreare’. Legal aspects of filiation ‘ex ancilla’».
She has participated and participates in numerous research projects of national and international relevance. Founding member of the «Salvius Iulanius Verein zur Förderung von Forschung und Lehre im Römischen Recht» - promoted in 2005 by Prof. Martin Avenarius - which is based at the University of Köln; since 28.10.2019 member of the management board of the «Vincenzo Arangio-Ruiz Interdepartmental Centre for Historical and Legal Studies on the Ancient World» (University of Naples Federico II). He mainly deals with the legal status of ‘natus ex ancilla’ in ancient Rome; the transposition of the concept of ‘persona’ from Roman law to Italian positive law; the history of labour salary.
She has repeatedly received funding from many Italian and European research organisations: Gerda Henkel Stiftung (Germany); Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt am Main (Germany); CEDANT (Pavia, Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori [IUSS]); CNR (Research Promotion 2005 [2007/2008]).
Many conferences in Italy and abroad (Argentina, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Spain, Venezuela) in which she has taken part as a lecturer.