Curriculum accademico
academic
- Full Professor of Comparative Law, University of Teramo, Italy (Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor, 2016-2019; Associate Professor, 2019-2024)
- since 2010: Invited Professor of Comparative Law and legal Pluralism, University of Malta
- 2019-2023: Invited professor of Asian Legal Traditions in the Catholic University of Lille
- 2018: Italian National qualification as Full Professor of Comparative Law
- 2005-2019: Invited Professor of Asian Legal Traditions, Chinese Law, University of Trento (Italy)
- 2013-2017: Invited Professor of Chinese Law and Chinese Investments in Africa, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
- 2013: National qualification as Associate Professor of Comparative Law
- 2005-2013: Regular Visiting Professor of Comparative legal Systems, University of Macau (China)
- 2007, 2008, 2009: Invited Professor of International Arbitration, University of Trento
- 2003-2004: Assistant Professor in the University of Macau (China); courses taught: Comparative
Legal Systems, International Arbitration, Common law, Civil Law
legal services
- 2025-2030: Arbitrator in the Arbitrators’ Roster of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration
(SCIA) and in the South China International Arbitration center (HK)
(SCIACK) list of Recommended Arbitrators.
- since 2024: Judge of the International Court of Appeal of the Union Internationale Motonautique
(International Powerboat Union – an International Sports Federation)
- 2018-2021 and since 2024: Arbitrator, Roster of the Italian National Authority against Corruption (ANAC)
- since 2019: Of Counsel, Astone Associati Studio Legale, Rome
- since 2011: Fellow, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators of London (FCIArb)
- 2011: training course and diploma in Mediation, Rome, Italy
- since 2008: Senior Lawyer, admitted before the Italian Supreme Court
- dal 1996: Lawyer, member of the Rome Bar
military
- since 1990: Italian Navy Reserve Officer – Current rank: Lieutenant (Navy)
- 1989-1990: Lieutenant, serving in the Multinational Force and Observers based in Sinai (Egypt)
- 1987-1989: Ensign, serving in the Italian Navy General Staff, Rome HQ
- 1987: Reserve Officer Training Course (81° AUCD), Naval Academy Leghorn; ranking #2 in his class
- 1999, PhD in Comparative Law, University of Trento, attained on 29 April 1999
- 1995, Diploma di Specializzazione (LLM) in Comparative Law, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, final grade: 70/70 (summa), having ranked first on admission, with a two-year scholarship
-1992, Laurea in Giurisprudenza (JD), University of Rome “La Sapienza”; final grade: 110/110 e lode (summa cum laude)
other qualifications
- 2023: Basic Security in the Field (BSAFE) ofr UN Personnel certificate
- 2023: Black belt, 1st Dan, Tae Soo Do
- 2010: authorised to detain weapons for sport purposes
- 2009: PADI Rescue Diver certificate
- 1988: Sailboat/Motorboat sport licence
- 1986: Private Pilot Licence (not current)
Mother tongue(s)
Italiano e spagnolo
Other language(s)
Inglese - fluente
Portoghese - fluente
Francese - scolastico
Cinese Mandarino - conversazione basica
Attività professionali:
Avvocato del Foro di Roma, patrocinante in Cassazione; qualifica raggiunta avendo patrocinato, al momento della richiesta di abilitazione al patrocinio avanti le Magistrature Superiori (febbraio 2008) e nei 12 anni precedenti, in oltre 550 procedimenti tra civili, penali, amministrativi.
Tra le parti assistite persone fisiche, associazioni, imprese, sindacati, enti pubblici e soggetti con cariche pubbliche, così come Avvocati e studi legali e professionali italiani e stranieri.
Lezioni e seminari svolti a favore di Avvocati e Scuole Forensi.
aree di maggiore attività: diritto civile e commerciale, in sede stragiudiziale, giudiziale, e di soluzione alternativa delle controversie. Arbitrati sia ad hoc che, in un caso, istituzionale (Camera Arbitrale di Roma), sia in qualità di arbitro (sia come Arbitro ex parte che come Arbitro Unico) che di Difensore.
Proprietà e successioni, anche internazionali. Contratti, anche internazionali.
Diritto del Lavoro. Internazionalizzazione dell’impresa. Attività estrattive.
Diritto penale ordinario e militare, indagini difensive.
Dal 2017 nell'Elenco Speciale dei Docenti Universitari presso il Consiglio dell'ordine degli Avvocati di Roma
Attività editoriali, di ricerca, traduzioni giuridiche:
Research
Founding member (2009) and incumbent Vice President (Projects) of Juris Diversitas, an international association of researchers on legal hybridity and diffusion, based in Lausanne, Switzerland - (more on www.jurisdiversitas.blogspot.com)
since 2018, Editor of the Juris Diversitas Book Series, Routledge (formerly Ashgate)
since 2024, Vice-Coordinator of the PhD Program Council in the Faculty of Law of the University of Teramo – PhD Program in “Harmonisation of Law Between History and System”
Since August, 2023: member of the executive board of the private Italian Foundation “Il Salotto Giuridico”, involved in legal research, dissemination, and continuing education
Since 2022, member of the Scientific Committee of the Research Center on Transition, Sustainability and Global Challenges of the University of Teramo (Italy)
since 2019, Member of the PhD Program Council in the Faculty of Law of the University of Teramo – PhD Program in “Harmonisation of Law Between History and System”
2015-2018, Research Associate, Center for Comparative Law in Africa, University of Cape Town
September 2011- December 2013, Associate to the Institute for the Theory and Technique of Legal Information of the Italian National Research Council.
Rapporteur for the Macao Special Adiministrative Region of the P.R.C., to the XVII International Cofnerence of the International Academy of Comparative Law (Utrecht 2006), -- report published in E. Hondius (ed.), Precedent and the Law, Brussels, Bruylant, 2007, 349 ss.; – also in Cadernos de Ciência Jurídica, Macao, 2008, 149, rcollection of the Macao Reports to the Utrecht Conference
1994-2006, partipipation to the UNILEX project of the Italian National Research Council, directed by Prof. M. J. Bonell, researchin, collecting, classifying in a database the world’s literature and case-law on the Vienna Convention of 1980 on International Sales of Goods (CISG) and on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts; www.unilex.info -- since 2002 as Senior Editor of the UNILEX database.
Publicly funded research projects & grants
2023: Grant received by the Italian MInistry of University as Principal Investigator in a National Interest Research Project (PRIN PNRR) on: "Energy Commons", leading a research group of 12 scholars from the Universities of Teramo, Campobasso, Palermo, Catania – overall research grant: €. 225.000.
Grants received by the Italian MInistry of University, for no. 2 PhD proposals of Academic-Industrial PhD research projects, in 2020 (on Blockchain technology, logistics and food supply chiains) and 2023 (on OSINT in the digital space)
Since 2023, Foreign Expert in The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology funded Foreign Expert Project: 中国科技部外专项目“全球地缘政治转型：中国与‘新’国际法” - “Global Geopolitical Transformation, China, and ‘New’ International Law” – University od Lanzhou, P.R.C. – grant no. DL2023175001L, budget: CNY 480,000 (circa €. 60.000,00)
2020-2023 University of Malta, Deptartments of Civil Law, European Law, and IT
"Systematising Smart Contracts within Classical Contract Law Theory", gov. Malta, €. 48.000
Leading a research unit from the University di Teramo, with a view to developing a questionnaire, as a base for a book project:
- Smart Contracts, proposed at the European research project Common Core of European Private Law, by David Zammit, Kurt Xerri, Ignazio Castellucci, Tobias Pinkel; book project approved by the Board of the Common Core, and now developing the pool of national Rapporteurs.
Minor research grants obtained in the University of Teramo in 2017 (€. 3.000) and 2019 (e. 1.500)
Translations and other institutional activities
2017: expert witness for the Court of Teramo (Italy), in a civil case related to the German law of insurance
2017: member of the Scientific Committee of Fonderia Abruzzo, a think-tank of the Italian region of Abruzzo aimed at producing analyses and proposals for regional legislative reforms
2003-2004, Consultant to the Government of the Macao Special Adiministrative Region of the People’s Republic of China for the translation into English language of laws and regulations of the Territory
2002 (with Prof. Carlo Fusaro), co-author of the English translation of the Italian Constitution for the “ICL Project” of the Institute of Public Law of the University of Berne (Switzerland), featuring the collection and translation of all the world’s Constitutions. Online: www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/it00000_html.
Academic societies’ Memberships and research groups:
Co-founder (2009), and incumbent Vice President of Juris Diversitas, an international Society of interdisciplinary research in/on comparative law, legal hybridity, and diffusion, seated in Lausanne (Switzerland)
Member: AIDC – Associazione Italiana di Diritto Comparato
Member: ECLS – European China Law Studies Association
Member: Associazione Italiana per l'Arbitrato
- CASS, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing: regularly invited as Foreign Expert to the annual meetings of the Rule of Law seminar, since December 2012 to November 2018:
- In 2012 as keynote speaker, presenting: Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics
- November 2013: The Italian Legal Tools to Fight the Mafia Phenomenon;
- November 2014: Law-Making in China: Systemic Normative Pluralism, Reactive Legislation
- December 2015: Supervision v. Checks & Balances: competing or cooperating?
- November 2016: Three patterns of legal reform: the Roman Empire, France, China
- November 2017: Rule of Law and State Governance Modernisation
- November 2018: Rule of Law and Global Law: Are They Contradictory?
Assessment activity for the academic rating of South African Law Professors research output, as entrusted by the National Research Foundation of the Republic of South Africa (nrf@ac.za)
Editorships, Editorial committees
Since 2018, Editor of the Juris Diversitas Book Series (Routledge, formerly Ashgate)
Since 2024, member of the Scientific Committee of the Giano Affari Internazionali Book Series
Since 2024, member of the Scientific Committee of the Book Series of the Research Centre on Ecologic Transition, Sustainability and Global Challenges of the University of Teramo
Since 2024, member of the board of revievers of the journal RiDAO - Rivista di Diritto dell’Asia Orientale
Since 2023, member of the board of revievers of the journal Trusts e Attività Fiduciarie, directed by M. Lupoi
Since 2022, member of the Scientific Committee of the italian academic journal (“A-tier”) Roma e America
Since 2020, member of the Scientific Committee, Limes Club of the Unviersity of Calabria
since 2017, co-Editor of the Juris Diversitas Book Series together with Sean Patrick Donlan and Julian Sidoli Del Ceno
since 2015, member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Comparative Law in Africa
since 2015, Member of the Review Committee of the Journal Roma e America
since 2014, Member of the Editorial Board of the Juris Diversitas book series, Ashgate publishing house
since 2012, member of che editorial committee of Éforos, journal of the Instituto Latinoamericano del Ombudsman - Defensor del Pueblo (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2011-2014, member of the Advisory Board of the Anuario Americanista Europeo, research annual publication of the CEISAL – Centro de Investigacciones Sociales Sobre America Latina, a Center for Social Research on Latin America participated by over 50 universities and research centers from Europe and Latin-American.
1995-1998, member of the editorial committee directed by M.J. Bonell of the Observatory for case law on CISG, the Vienna Convention on International Sale of Goods of 1980, for the Journal Diritto del Commercio Internazionale.
Peer-reviewer for the following Journals: Global Jurist; Opinio Iuris in Comparatione; Frontiers of Law in China; International Journal of Law in Context; Journal of Comparative law in Africa; African Studies; Roma e America; The Hague Journal of Rule of Law; Fudan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences; International Journal of Law in Context; NAM -Nuova Antologia Militare; Trust e Attività Fiduciarie; and for reviewing books for Springer and Routledge.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Books authored
- Pluralismo giuridico nell’arcipelago malese, Naples, ESI, 2024 (on legal pluralism in the Malay archipelago)
- European Security in a Post-Brexit World (together with S. Paladini), Emerald, 2019
- Rule of Law and Legal Complexity in the People’s Republic of China, 103 Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche, Trento, 2012 (a research on the Chinese concept of ‘the rule of law’ and related issues)
- Sistema Jurídico Latinoamericano. Una verifica, Torino, Giappichelli, 2011 (a research on sources of law in Latin America)
- Le grandi tradizioni giuridiche dell’Asia, Trento, 2009 (a little handbook on Asian Legal Traditions for students at the University of Trento)
Books and journal issues edited:
6. Opinio Juris in Comparatione, Special issue of the journal no. 1/2023: conference proceedings of the 2021 Juris Diversitas International Cofnerence The Dark Side of the Law
7. Gnosis - Rivista Italiana di Intelligence, institutional journal of the Italian Government department on Information and Security, monographic issue no. 2 of 2020 on: Law and Geopolitics
8. Saggi di diritto economico e commerciale cinese (Essays on Chinese Economic and Commercial Law), with an authored introductory essay, Trento, 2019
9. A. Martelli, I. Castellucci (eds.), Kraino: essere voce e non eco – proceedings of the 2017-2018 trans-disciplinary seminar of the University di Teramo on communications, soft skills and innovative teaching, Roma, Aracne, 2019
10. The Globalisation and Macau: The External Role of Macau as a Platform between Asia-Pacific and Latin America, Macao, Macau Foundation, 2018
Chapters in books and main essays:
11. Geolaw, in Global Jurist, 2024 – forthcoming
12. Il d.d.l. <> 2024: danno, responsabilità, questioni assicurative, in S. Zolea e T. Graziani (a cura di), Verso una lege italiana sullo spazio, in the book series Giano Affari Internazionali, Roma, Callive, 2025, 55-72
13. Una historia del nombre en derecho argentino, in S. Lanni e D.F. Esborraz (a cura di), Diez años de la aprobación del Código Civil y Comercial Argentino, in the book series Roma e America. Sistema giuridico latinoamericano. Studi, Napoli, ESI, 2024, 171-194
- The Dark Side of Space Law, in S. Zolea (ed.), Proceedings of the International conference of 9-10 February 2024 on Space law, Università Roma Tre, RomaTre Press, 2024, 117-131
- Chapter: Korea, in M. Mazza (ed.) Diritti del Lontano Oriente, Trattato di Diritto Pubblico Comparato directed by G.F. Ferrari Spanish edition, Editorial Juridica Venezolana, 2023, 327-432 (sections 3.2.7. and 3.2.8. authored by Andrea Serafino; sections 3.2.2. and 3.2.3. co-authored with Andrea Serafino)
- Italian edition: Padua, Cedam Wolters Kluwer, 2019 , 12-15 and 297-40
- English edition, Eleven International, The Hague, 2019
18. Sovereign States, Private Actors, and (National) Space Laws. A Rapidly Evolving Landscape (con S. Paladini), in C. Cockell (a cura di), The Institutions of Extraterrestrial Liberty, Oxford University Press, 2022, 366-383
19. Commentary to Articles 815 and 816, on Insurance contracts, in A. Borroni (ed.), Commentario al codice civile georgiano (Commentary on the Georgian Civil Code) Tbilisi, 2022, 274-294
20. L’organizzazione e il funzionamento della giustizia in Cina (organisation and functioning of justice in China), In C. Tugnoli e M. Cozzio (eds.), Teorie e pratiche della giustizia, Trento, 2022, 295 - 314
21. Public Governance of the Blockchain Revolution and Its Implications for Social Finance: A Comparative Analysis (con S. Paladini e E. Yerushalmi), in T.Walker, J. McGaughey, S. Goubran, N. Wagdy (a cura di), Innovations in Social Finance, Springer – Palgrave MacMillan, 2021, 293-318
22. China and Hong Kong: One Country, One Security System , in Mondo Cinese – n. 167, summer 2020
23. Geodiritto (Geo-law), in Gnosis, 2020, no. 2, 20-33
24. Piccolo cronoideario geogiuridico (a compact geo-legal chrono-ideary), in Gnosis, 2020, no. 2, 180-189
25. Chapter: Corea (North and South), in R. Cavalieri (ed.), Diritto dell’Asia Orientale, Venice, 2019, 131-178
26. Oriente e Occidente – Per una geostoria del diritto italiano, in Italy on the Rimland (East and West: a Geo-history of Italian Law), in V. Ilari (ed.), Quaderni della S.I.S.M., 2019, I, 535 - 546
27. Homo oeconomicus sinicus, in I.Castellucci (ed.), Saggi di diritto economico e commerciale cinese, 39 Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche dell’Università di Trento, Napoli, Editoriale Scientifica, 2019, 5 - 32
28. Ancora su ordinamenti e sistema, in Atti della Summer School 2018 dell’Università di Brescia, Torino, 2019, 49
29. Ius Romanum, Sistema jurídico latinoamericano, ordenamientos, in Roma e America, 39 (2018), 323-340
30. Pressioni esterne sull’evoluzione recente della r.c.a. tedesca (external pressures on the German system of law of traffic tort liability), in L. Ammannati, P. Corrias, F. Sartori, A. Sciarrone Alibrandi (a cura di) I giudici e l’economia, Torino, Giappichelli, 2018, 261
31. Castellucci, The Many Roles for Macau within China: Macau’s Legal Environment, in I. Castellucci (a cura di), The Globalisation and Macau: The External Role of Macau as a Platform between Asia-Pacific and Latin America– Part III: Law, Macao, Fondazione Macao, 2017
- Researching and Teaching (Comparative) Law in Africa, proceedings of the First International Workshop of the Research Centre for Comparative Law in Africa; Claremont, Juta, 2015, 63-74, 9-781485-107453
33. Identità latinoamericana e ruolo degli Abogados secondo Hanns-Abert Steger, in Roma e America, 36 (2015), 25
34. Il Giurista, cuore del sistema nella tradizione romanista latinoamericana, in Roma e America, 36 (2015), 239 (the jurist as the core of Latin American Romanist legal tradition)
35. L’idea di Rule of Law nella Repubblica Popolare Cinese, in R. Cavalieri (ed.), Diritti, cittadini e potere in Cina, 12 Sulla via del Catai, Centro Martini Martini, Trento, 2015 (the idea of rule of law in the PRC)
36. The Ancient Euro-Mediterranean Radication of the Aversion for Usury, in M.Y. Mattar, V.V. Palmer, A. Koppel (eds.), Mixed Legal Systems: East And West, Ashgate Juris Diversitas Series, 2015, 255
37. Il diritto italiano nelle micro-giurisdizioni: San Marino, Città del Vaticano, Malta; in Annuario di Diritto Comp., 2014, 693 (Italian Law in Micro-Jurisdictions: San Marino, the Vatican City, Malta)
38. L’influenza della tradizione giuridica italiana nel diritto portoghese, in Annuario di Diritto Comparato, 2014, 585, together with João Nuno Calvão da Silva (The Influence of the Italian Legal tradition in Portuguese Law)
39. Comparative Law in Asia, in Tong Io Cheng – S. Mancuso (eds.) New Frontiers of Comparative Law, Lexis-Nexis, 2013, 73-88.
- How mixed must a mixed system be? In Tong Io Cheng – S. Mancuso (eds.) New Frontiers of Comparative Law, Hong Kong-Singapore-Malaysia, Lexis-Nexis, 2013, 173-191
- - anche in Boletím da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Macau, 30 (2010);
- - anche in 12.1 Electronic Journal of Comparative Law 2008 (May 2008); online: http://www.ejcl.org/121/art121-4.pdf;
43. Classificando i sistemi giuridici africani, in Annuario di Diritto Comparato, 2013, 261-303 (with Marco Guadagni) (on Classifying African Law)
44. Legal Hybridity in Hong Kong and Macau, in McGill Law Journal (2012) 57: 4, 1, 665-720
45. Aspetti giuridici comuni e/o di interesse per i paesi BRICS nell’ambito del commercio internazionale, proceedings of the Seminar of 7-8 September 2011 on “the Legal Dymension of BRICS”, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, 2012 (Common and/or Interesting Legal Aspects for BRICS Countries in the Domain of International Business Law)
- One Country, Two Systems, in Mondo Cinese, n.147, December 2011, 77
- Il diritto nel mondo dei molti imperi, in Eurasia, 3/2011, 103 (Law in a Multi-Imperial World)
48. Reflections on the Legal features of the Socialist Market Economy, in Frontiers of Law in China, 3/2011, 343-368
49. World Laws vs. Global Law: legal Models for the World economy – A non-Western Approach to Law and ADR as a Resource for South-South, South-East business Relations, in Bocconi Legal Papers, 2011 – 01; online: www.bocconilegalpapers.org
- Chinese Law: a new Hybrid?, in E. Cashin Ritaine, S.P. Donalan, M.Sychold (eds.), Comparative Law and Hybrid Legal Traditions, 67 Publications of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (2010), 75
- Una Lex Mercatoria Regional para el Caribe, en Actas del Congreso Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Arbitraje Comercial Internacional, La Habana, 24-26 Junio de 2010; online: https://www.ohadac.com/bibliographie/26/una-lex-mercatoria-regional-para-el-caribe.html
52. Eclectic Legal Reforms in Africa and the Challenges of Reality: the Case of Eritrean Family Law, in C.C. Nweze (ed.), Contemporary Issues of International and Comparative Law: Essays in Honour of Christian Nwachukwu Okeke, Lake Mary FL, 2009, 599
53. La tradizione del diritto romano e il moderno diritto transnazionale degli affari, proceedings of the XII Colloquium of Central-Eastern European and Asian Roman Lawyers, Irkutsk, 2009 (Roman Law and Modern Transnational Business Law)
54. Law v. Statute, Ius v. Lex: an Analysis of a Critical Relation in Roman and Civil Law (2008), Global Jurist, 8, Issue 1 (Advances), article n.5; online: http://www.bepress.com/gj/vol8/iss1/art5
55. National Report on the Macau Special Administratyive Region of the People’s Republic of China, to the XVII conference of the International Academy of Comparative Law (Utrecht, 2006), in E.Hondius (ed.), Precedent and the Law, Brussels, 2007, 349;
56. also in Cadernos de Ciência Jurídica, Macau, 2008, 149
57. Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics, in Annual Survey of International and Comparative Law 13 (2007), 35.
58. The Rule of Law and the Role of Law in the Chinese Context, in Culture, law and Order; Chinese and Western Traditions, Matteo Ricci Institute Studies 4, Macau, 2007, 91.
59. Ambiente, sicurezza e difesa, in Quaderni della Rivista Giuridica dell’Ambiente, 18 (2006), 475 ss.
60. Codifications in the Western Legal Tradition,
61. also in Cinese: Na Po Lun FaDian Han Er Bai Nian Lai De FaDian Bian Zuan
-- Both in Boletím da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Macau, 17 (2004);
62. also in: Tong Io Cheng – S. Mancuso (eds.) New Frontiers of Comparative Law, Lexis-Nexis, 2013, 155-171
63. Il Diritto e la Legge: studio comparativo di una relazione critica tra le fonti (Law and Statute: a comparative study of a critical relation between legal sources)
64. also in Cinese: Fa Lu Yu Fa: LuoMa Fa Yu DaLu Fa Zhong Yao GuanXi De Fen Xi.
-- Both in Boletím da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Macau, 16 (2003).
- La tutela dell’ambiente nell’ordinamento giuridico della Repubblica Popolare Cinese: un case study sul funzionamento del sistema, in Rivista Giuridica dell’Ambiente (on Chinese environmental law), 2003, 1, 59 ss.
- Convergence between the civil law and common law models of legal system,
- also in Chinese: MinFa Fa Xi He PuTong Fa Xi De FaLu Zhi Du Mo Shi De QuXiang -- both in Boletím da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Macau, 14 (2003)
68. Il nuovo diritto dell’Eritrea: il diritto di famiglia (Eritrean family law), in L. Favali, E. Grande, M.Guadagni (eds.),New Laws for New States, Turin, 1998.
69. La consuetudine nel diritto romano-giustinianeo e nel diritto argentino: natura e forza normativa (customary law in Justinean Roman Law and in Argentine Law: nature and binding force), nel Cardozo Law Bulletin dell’Università di Trento (www.jus.unitn.it), 1996, 2.
Short articles, Introductions, Reviews, Other writings
- Introduction to the Special issue of Opinio Juris in Comparatione (“A-tier” journal), 1/2023, with the proceedings of the Juris Diversitas International Conference of 2021 - The Dark Side of the Law, pp. 124 ss.
- (together with F. Coppola) Il sistema sanzionatorio decentrati del DSA: dinamica dell'apparato istituzionale (artt. 49, 50, 55, 61-63 - Capo IV, Sezioni I, II e III , in L'impatto del Digital Services Act (DSA) sulla legislazione italiana – special issue edited by Tassone, in Diritto di Internet, 2023, 1, pp. 49 ss. (a commentary on the EU Digital Services Act of 2023)
- Introductory chapter, section El derecho público de los países del sureste asiático entre complejidad y pluralismo, in M. Mazza (ed.) Los Sistemas Constitucionales del Lejano Oriente, in Tratado de Derecho Publico Comparado cordinated and directed by G.F. Ferrari, Editorial Jurídica Venezolana, Caracas, 2023, 29-35:
- Italian edition, Padova, Cedam Wolters Kluwer, 2019, 12-15
- English edition, The Hague, Eleven International, 2019, 12-14
- Analisi e sintesi, in Gnosis – Rivista Italiana di Intelligence del D.I.S. della Presidenza del Consiglio, 1/2021,
- Le Potenze alla guerra del diritto, in Limes, 2020, no. 5 (June 2020), 207-212
77. Forma e sostanza, in A. Martelli, I. Castellucci (a cura di), Kraino: essere voce e non eco, Roma, Aracne, 2019
78. Review to: P Butler e C Morris (eds), Small states in a legal world, Springer, 2017; in 2018 Small States & Territories, 1, 1, 13.
79. Intelligence and European security in the aftermath of Brexit: an Italian perspective, (con S. Paladini) in 2017 Journal of Intelligence History, DOI: 10.1080/16161262.2017.1333688
80. Review to: John W. Head, Great legal Traditions, North Carolina University Press, 2011, in: Frontiers of Law in China, 4/2012
- La tutela dell’ambiente nell’ordinamento giuridico di Macao e di Hong Kong (Protection of Environment in the Legal Systems of Macao and Hong Kong), in Rivista Giuridica dell’Ambiente, 2004, 2,
82. I due memorandum of understanding per la salvaguardia delle tartarughe marine della costa atlantica dell’Africa e dell’Oceano Indiano e sud-est asiatico, in Rivista Giuridica dell’Ambiente, XVI (2001), 5, 729
83. Procedimento per estradizione ed indagine difensiva (extradition proceedings and defence counsel investigations in favour of the accused), in Detective and Crime, n. 9-10/1996.
84. Principi Unidroit e il Progetto Lando (Unidroit Principles and Lando Project), short article and book review, in Rivista Critica del Diritto Privato, 1995.
Teaching
Since October 2015, University of Teramo: Invited Professor, then (2016) Assistant Professor, then (2019) Associate Professor of Private Comparative Law, then (2024) Full professor, teaching courses of Private Comparative Law and International Commercial Law
2019-2023: Invited professor of Asian Legal Traditions in the Catholic University of Lille
2013-2017, University of Cape Town: Invited Professor of Chinese Law and Chinese Investments in Africa
Since October 2010: University of Malta: yearly invited Professor of Comparative Legal Systems and Legal Pluralism
2005-2017, University of Trento, Faculty of Law, Invited Professor of Asian legal Traditions and Chinese Law
2004-2013, University of Macau (China), Faculty of Law, Regular Visiting Professor of Comparative Legal Systems in a Master Program in International, European and Comparative Law.
Fall 2007, 2008, 2009: University di Trento, Faculty of Economy and Business: Invited Professor of International Arbitration in a Master Program in Transnational Business
1996-1997: University of Asmara (Eritrea): Lecturer of Private Law and Family Law
Winter/Summer Schools, short visiting professorships
19-20 January 2021, Winter school, Kutafin University of Moscow: Law in the digital space : conflict, regulation, governance
November 2019, National Law University, New Delhi, e Rajiv Gandhi National University, Patiala (Punjab), India: lectures in the Summer School directed by W. Menski on Legal Pluralism and Governance in the Global South,
May 2018, Visiting Professor at the Maritime University of Odessa (Ukraine): Global Law and Legal Issues
Since 2016, annual lectures at the Summer School of the University of Brescia, in Roman Law, Comparative Law, and Latin American Legal System directed by A. Saccoccio
2004 – 2010, National University di Taipei, Taiwan:
- Seminars within Master Programme in Criminology, October 2005, November 2006, November 2010: Legislative tools for Fighting Organised Crime in Italy
- Seminar within Master Programme in Criminology, November 2008 and November 2009: Comparative analysis of some national legislations on intelligence and security
- Seminar within Master Programme in Criminology, February 2004: Adversary vs. Inquisitory System: a Historic Overview
Since 2005, lectures and seminars in undergraduate, master and PhD programs in several Italian and foreign universities, including:
- Salerno, Genova, Torino, Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma “Tor Vergata”, Roma III, Teramo, Teramo-Avezzano, Campobasso, Trieste, Trento, Alessandria, Venezia Ca’ Foscari, Milano Bicocca, Milano Bocconi
- Rovaniemi/Lapland (Finland), Helsinki (Finland), Limerick (Ireland), Beiijing/BeiDa (China), Beijing Zhengfa (China), Shanghai ZhengFa (China), Lanzhou (China), Xiangtan (China), Coimbra (Portugal), La Plata (Argentina)
Topics: Rule of Law in China; Chinese Legal History; International Business Law, Arbitration, and Lex Mercatoria; Arbitration in China; Hong Kong and Macao within China; Chinese Environmental Law; Asian Legal Traditions; Korean law; Global Legal and Geo-Legal issues.
February 2003-October 2004, Full-time Assistant Professor in the University of Macau, having taught courses of Business Law, Comparative Legal Systems, European Continental Law (civil law), International Arbitration.
a.y. 1996-97, Lecturer in the University of Asmara, Eritrea, of Introduction to private law and Family law, within the frame of a cooperation project between the University of Trento and the University of Asmara for the reconstruction of the latter.
Seminars of private law in the same university also in a.y. 1997-98.
1995-98, Assistant to the Chairs of Civil Law (Prof. Ugo Mattei) and African Law (Prof. Marco Guadagni), University of Trento
1993-2009, Assistant to the Chair of Comparative Law (prof. M.J. Bonell) University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Other academic- related activities:
Since 2024: Chairman of the Internationalisation Committee of the Faculty of Law, University of Teramo
since 2024: Member of the Internationalisation Committee of the University of Teramo
since 2022: Chairman of the Academic Committee of the University of Teramo for Innovative Teaching
since 2021: Chairman of the Third Mission Committee of the Faculty of Law, University of Teramo
since 2020: Member of the Research Quality Committee of the Faculty of Law, University of Teramo
since 2020: member of the Scientific Commitee of the CORiFISI – a Center for research and teaching for the deaf and other communicationally-challenged persons, founded by the four Universities of Abruzzo
since 2019: member of the PhD Programme Scientific Council of the University of Teramo, Faculty of Law
since 2018: member of the Special Group of the University of Teramo for study, research and teaching inrelation to communicationally-challenged persons
a.y. 2003-2004: member of the Graduate Studies Committee of the University of Macau, People’s Republic of China, including participation in the drafting group of the Regulations for PhD programs
a.y. 2003-2004, designer, drafter of relevant regulations, organiser and first coordinator of a Master Program in European Union, International and Comparative Law
1996-1997, participation to the cooperation project between the Universities of Trento (Italy) and Asmara (Eritrea), for the reorganisation and development of activities of the Faculty of Law in Asmara, under the guidance of Marco Guadagni and Ugo Mattei
Gradimento studenti :
- nei dieci anni di insegnamento trentino del diritto cinese e delle tradizioni giuridiche dell’asia, gradimento rilevato in forma anonima non inferiore al 85% e in alcuni anni pari al 95-100% ; il corso è stato complessivamente rilevato nell’a.a. 2013-2014 come rientrante nel primo quartile nella graduatoria del gradimento di tutti corsi offerti dalla Facoltà.
- nell’Università di CapeTown le rilevazioni anonime hanno prodotto una volontà dichiarata del 70% degli studenti nel 2014 e del 100% degli studenti nel 2015 di proporre il docente come candidato al Best Teacher Award dell’Università di Cape Town (competizione riservata però ai docenti strutturati di quell’Università)
Main participation to Conferences, Seminars:
Events organised, membership of scientific committees of events etc.:
- Panama city, January 2024, International Conference on Notarial Law and issues, organised by Sapèienza University of Rome, the Panamenian national Institute of Higher Education of the Judiciary, and the Italian Foundation “Il Salotto Giuridico”
- Annual conferences of the Juris Diversitas society:
- Macau, October 2024
- Palermo, June 202
- Catania, Italy, June 2021 (online)
- Potchefstroom, South Africa, 2019
- Lyon, France, July 2017
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US, June 2016
- Limerick, Ireland, June 2015;
- Aix-en-Provence, France, July 2014;
- Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2013;
- Bucarest, July 2019, member of the Scientific Committee of the Seminar of the Grupo de Trabajo de Jurisprudencia within the CEISAL - Centro de Investigaciones Sociales sobre America Latina
- Saint Petersburg, October 2015, member of the Scientific Committee of the Seminar of the Grupo de Trabajo de Jurisprudencia within the CEISAL - Centro de Investigaciones Sociales sobre America Latina
- - Trento, Italy, may 2015: Dieci anni di diritto cinese a Trento, Maggio 2015, Università di Trento (Ten Years of Teachng Chinese Law in Trento)
- - Jersey (UK), April 2015, Juris Diversitas Workshop on Micro-Jurisdictions
- Turin, february 2013, Crossroads East-West - Visions of the Economy in the Islamic and Western Legal Traditions –
International Workshop
Keynote and closing speeches:
Potchefstroom, April 2019: On Spatiality and Roots of the Law, keynote speech at the 6th Juris Diversitas International Conference
Lyon, July 2017: Law Kitchen – closing speech at the 5th Juris Diversitas International Conference, on Law & Food
Aix-en-Provence, luglio 2014: member of the closing panel at the 2nd Juris Diversitas International Conference
Lausanne, June 2013: closing speech at the First Juris Diversitas International Conference
Turin, february 2013: closing speech at the Crossroads East-West - Visions of the Economy in the Islamic and Western Legal TraditionsInternational Workshop
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Law Institute, Beijing, December 2012: keynote speaker at the International workshop on the Rule of Law
Other presentations at conferences, workshops etc.
Special Session at the International Astronautical Congress of Milan, 18 October 2024 – presentation and execution of an interactive simulation/role play with the audience, simulating the negotiation process taking place on Mars in year 2075, to prepare a new Mars Treaty
Session organisers: Sirio Zolea, Ignazio Castellucci, Stefania Paladini, Maria Rhimbassen
University Roma Tre, 9 February 2024, international conference on Space Law. Paper presented: The Dark Side of the (Space) Law
Panama, ISJUP, 12 January 2024, research, continuing educationand comparative notarial law conference, on ‘Foreign documents of Power of Attorney’, together with the local Natioinal Higher Education Institute for Judges; event organised by the Foundation Il Salotto Giuridico
University La Sapienza of Rome, Faculty of Law, 13 December 2023, Lecture on Geo-Legal Issues
University of Lanzhou, 4 December 2023, kick-off meeting of the international research project Global Geopolitical Transformation, China, and ‘New’ International Law
University La Sapienza of Rome, Faculty of Law, 7 November 2023, Seminar on ‘The Jurist and intelligence activities’
University of Verona, 28 September 2023, inervention at the Seminar on ‘Shipwrecked and Migrants’
University of Malta, 14-16 June 2023, 5th International conference of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdictions Jurists. Paper: The Enigmatic Creativity of Mixed Jurisdictions’ Jurists
Milan, Statale University, 8 June 2023, Lecture onu Food Law in China
Rome La sapienza University, 3 febbraio 2023, Discussant al seminario dei giovani comparatisti dell’AIDC.
Rome, La Sapienza University (26 gennaio 2023) and Luiss University (27 gennaio 2023), seminars on ‘Georgian insurance law’
- Petersburg, in memoriam conference for Gabriele Crespi Reghizzi, 30 December 2022
Santiago, Chile, Los Andes University, 5 December 2022, Italian-Chilean colloquium of Roman Law, paper presented: Sources of obligations of a negotiated type, and codifications of law
University of Edinburgh, June 8-11th, 2021: Seminars on The Institutions of Extraterrestrial Liberty – presentation: Sovereign States, Private Actors, and (National) Space Laws. A Changing Landscape (together with S. Paladini)
CASS - Chinese Academic of Social Sciences, Beijing: invited as a foreign expert to the international workshops on the Rule of Law:
- in November 2012 as a keynote speaker -- speech: Chinese Law: Variable Geometries
- in November 2013, presentation: The Italian Legal Tools to Fight the Mafia Phenomenon;
- in November 2014, presentation: Law-Making in China: Systemic Normative Pluralism, Reactive Legislation
- in December 2015, presentation: Supervision v. Checks & Balances: competing or cooperating?
- in November 2016, presentation: Three patterns of legal reform: the Roman Empire, France, China
- in November 2017 presentation: Rule of Law and State Governance Modernisation
- in November 2018, presentation: Rule of Law and Globalisation: are they contradictory?
May 2016, international conference Road to New Paradigms: Impact of China’s Silk Road Initiative in China, Central Asia and the EU;presentation: The Silk Road initiative: Exporting the Chinese Model
Washington D.C., World Bank, November 2015: Law, Justice and Development Week 2015 organised by the Global Forum for Law, Justice and Development -- speaker in an event in the format of the Knowledge Café on Law and geopolitics
University of St. Petersburg, October 2015, Seminar of the Grupo de Trabajo de Jurisprudencia of the CEISAL (Centre for Social Investigations on Latin America); presentation: L’Identità del sistema giuridico latinoamericano (Latin American Legal Identity)
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, September 2015: participation to the round table Diritto e giustizia nella Cina di Xi Jinping, organised by R. Cavalieri (Law and Justice in Xi Jinping’s China).
Chinese University of Hong Kong, novembre 2014, Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association, presentation: Law-Making in China: Systemic Normative Pluralism, Reactive Legislation
University of Catania, June 2014, speech delivered at a workshop within the framework of a research project on mediterranean Legal Hybridity: Islamic Law and Finance Today
Turin, IUC, Crossroads East-West: Visions of the Economy in the Islamic and Western Legal Traditions, International Workshop, february 2013; presentation: Two Stories Coming Full Circle
University of Capetown, October 2012, International Workshop: Comparative Law in Africa.
Dushanbe, August 2012: International Seminar on Islamic economic Law
The University of Malta / Johns Hopkins University international seminar, May 2012: Mixed Legal Systems and Islamic Law – East and West – presentation: The Euromediterraniean Radication of the Aversion for Ribah
Other presentations:
University of Edinburgh, 8-11 June 2021: conference on The Institutions of Extraterrestrial Liberty – presentation: Sovereign States, Private Actors, and (National) Space Laws. A Changing Landscape (with S. Paladini)
Kutafin University of Moscow, international conferences Current Problems of Law:
- April 2021, presentation: How Intelligent Should the Law Be?
- January 2021, presentation: Spatiality of Law in the Global Context
- April 2020, presentation: The Italian Constitutional, institutional and legal framework providing for the financial stability of the State, the correct management of public resources and the fight against corruption – in a nutshell.
Rajiv Gandhi National University, Patiala (Punjab) and National Law University, New Delhi, India, November 2019: parteicipation as Teacher in the Summer School on Legal Pluralism and Governance in the Global South, directed by W. Menski
CASS, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing: regularly invited as foreign expert to the annual international conference on Rule of Law, since 2012 to 2018:
- December 2012, as keynote speaker: Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics
- November 2013, presentation: The Italian Legal Tools to Fight the Mafia Phenomenon;
- November 2014, presentation: Law-Making in China: Systemic Normative Pluralism, Reactive Legislation
- December 2015, presentaztion: Supervision v. Checks & Balances: competing or cooperating?
- November 2016, presentation: Three patterns of legal reform: the Roman Empire, France, China
- November 2017, presentation: Rule of Law and State Governance Modernisation
- November 2018, presentation: Rule of Law and Global Law: Are They Contradictory?
University of Teramo, 8-9 November 2018: Conference Il diritto al fronte: trasformazioni giuridiche e sociali in Italia nella Grande Guerra (Social and Legal changes in Italy during WW1); presentation: Grande Guerra e disciplina delle sopravvenienze contrattuali: profili comparatistici (on contractual hardship)
Turin, September 2018, 13th General Conference of the European Chinese Legal Studies Association; presentation: Kǒng Fūzǐ (孔夫子), Shāng jūn (商君) , Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping: Elements of Continuity in Chinese Political-Legal Doctrines
University of Lecce (Italy), December 2016: workshop on Migration Policies and Legal Transplants in the Mediterranean Area; presentation: Governance dei flussi migratori, diritto e ordine pubblico (migrations, governance, law and public policy)
Helsinki, May 2016, internartional conference Road to New Paradigms: Impact of China’s Silk Road Initiative in China, Central Asia and the EU;presentation: The Silk Road initiative: Exporting the Chinese Model
Washington D.C., November 2015: Law, Justice and Development Week 2015 del Global Forum for Law, Justice and Development, presso la World Bank: speaker in a Knowledge Café formant, on the topic: “Law and Geopolitics”
University of St. Petersburg, October 2015, Seminar of the Grupo de Trabajo de Jurisprudencia of the CEISAL (Centre for Social Investigations on Latin America); presentation: L’Identità del sistema giuridico latinoamericano (Latin American Legal Identity)
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, September 2015: participation to the round table Diritto e giustizia nella Cina di Xi Jinping, organised by R. Cavalieri (Law and Justice in Xi Jinping’s China).
Chinese University of Hong Kong, novembre 2014, Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association, presentation: Law-Making in China: Systemic Normative Pluralism, Reactive Legislation
University of Catania, June 2014, speech delivered at a workshop within the framework of a research project on mediterranean Legal Hybridity: Islamic Law and Finance Today
University of Trento, maggio 2013, speech delivered at a workshop within the framework of a research project on Legal Pluralism; presentation: Personal Laws in the Philippines.
University of Catania, May 2013, Filling the Gaps: Law and Justice - International Workshop: Filling the Gaps in Latin America
Turin, IUC, Crossroads East-West: Visions of the Economy in the Islamic and Western Legal Traditions, International Workshop, february 2013; presentation: Two Stories Coming Full Circle
University of Capetown, October 2012, International Workshop: Comparative Law in Africa.
Dushanbe, August 2012: International Seminar on Islamic Economic Law
The University of Malta / Johns Hopkins University international seminar, May 2012: Mixed Legal Systems and Islamic Law – East and West – presentation: The Euromediterraniean Radication of the Aversion for Ribah
Solbridge School of Business, Daejeon, Korea, Master Program in International Business Novembre 2011, seminar: East – West business practices
University of Macau, November 2011, international conference: “The Future of Comparative Law” - paper: Comparative Law in Asia
S.Petersburg, Higher School of Economics, September 2011, seminar: “the legal dimension of BRICS”; papaer: common or interesting legal aspects for BRICS countries in international commerce
University of Dushanbe, Tajikistan, October 2011, First Colloquium of Euro-Asian Roman Lawyers; paper: Utility of Roman Law fr the development of a legal frame for commercial and financial exchanges in central Asia
University of Rome “La Sapienza” – Roundtable on the legal dimension of the grouping of BRICS countries, March 2011
University of Macau, November 2010, seminar: the role of Macao between China and the world
Peking University and and Eastern State University of Political Science and the Law of Shanghai, November 2010, seminars on the codification of law in the West and in China
University of Malta, june 2010, First conference of the Maltese Association of Comparative Law; paper: The Mediterranean Identity of the Legal Aversion to Usury
International cofnerence on international arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce of Cuba, La Habana, june 2010. Paper: A Regional Lex Mercatoria for the Caribbean?
Queen’s University of Belfast, Second conference of the Irish Society of Comparative Law, February 2010. paper: The Aesthetic Dimension of Law
University of Macau, November 2009, Jean Monnet seminar: The Idea of Sovereignty in the European Legal Environment.
University of Irkutsk, Russian federation, October 2009, XII Colloquium of Center-Eastern European and Asian Roman Lawyers; paper: The Roman Law tradition and modern transnational business law
University of Xiangtan, the People’s Republic of China, October 2009, internazonal conference on Chinese and African Law. Paper: Eclectic legal reforms and the Challenges of Reality: Eritrean Family Law.
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, lausanne, September 2009, First conference of the Juris Diversitas research association on legal hybridity and diffusion; paper: Chinese Law: a new Hybrid?
University of Vienna, june 2009, 4th international conference of the European Chinese Law Studies Association. paper: Socialist Market Laws: Insurance
Bocconi University, Milan, May 2009, conference on “the identity of the jurist”. paper: La ‘lex mercatoria’ e I Principi UNIDROIT sui contratti comemrciali internazionali (lex mercatoria and UNIDROIT Principles)
International Islamic University of Kuala Lumpur, May 2009, 7th conference of the Asian Law Institute, on Legal Pluralism in Asia . Paper: World Laws v. Global Law - Legal Models for the world Economy
International University College di Torino, April and May 2009. Seminar: World Laws v. Global Law.
University of Limerick, inaugural conference of the Irish Society of Comparative Law, February 2009. paper: Rule of What? Rule of Law and the Others
University of Limerick, February 2009. Seminari: World Laws v. Global Law.
University of Macau, November 2008, Jean Monnet seminar: Interpreting the EU Law: the (re)Birth of a European Tradition.
University of Xiangtan, China, November 2008; Seminar: a Non-Western Approach to Law and ADR as a resource for Sino-African Commercial Relations.
FideS International Center, Ho Chi Minh, November 2008; seminar on international arbitration for local lawyers and businessmen
University of Bologna, 3rd international conference of the European Chinese Law Studies Association, October 2008.
paper: The Legal framework of the Socialist Market Economy.
February 2008: lectures on arbitration in a training course for lawyers of the Bar Association of Caltanissetta (Italy)
November 2007: Macao (China), international conference of the Club Ohada-Chine. paper: a Non-Western Approach to Law and ADR as a resource for Sino-African Commercial Relations.
September 2007: Macao (Cina), world conference of the Federation of International Studies on Latin America and the Caribbean, paper: Non-western legal models for the XXI century.
June 2007: Edinburgh, the 2nd international conference of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdictions’ Jurists. Paper: How mixed must a mixed system be?
July 2006: participation to the XVII congress of the International Academy of Comparative Lawyer, as a Rapporteur for Macao. Topic: Precedent and the Law
April 2006: lectures on international arbitration in a continuing education course organised by an association of lawyers in Rome
October 2005: Beijing, international conference of the International Academy of Legal Science; paper: Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics
The Matteo Ricci Institute of Macao, November 2004, international conference on “Culture, Law and Order: Chinese and Western traditions”; paper: The Rule of Law and The Role of Law in the Chinese Context
University of Macau, September 2004, The Shari’ah Legal Order and and Islamic Banking and Finance
University of Haifa, Israel, May 2004, international conference for the 200 years of the Code Napoléon. Paper: Codifications in the Western Legal Tradition
University of Trento, May 2003, seminar for PhD students: Globalizzazione, antagonismo e resistenza nei sistemi giuridici dell’America Latina, within the PhD program of the University di Trento
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Curriculum english version
academic
- Full Professor of Comparative Law, University of Teramo, Italy (Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor, 2016-2019; Associate Professor, 2019-2024)
- since 2010: Invited Professor of Comparative Law and legal Pluralism, University of Malta
- 2019-2023: Invited professor of Asian Legal Traditions in the Catholic University of Lille
- 2018: Italian National qualification as Full Professor of Comparative Law
- 2005-2019: Invited Professor of Asian Legal Traditions, Chinese Law, University of Trento (Italy)
- 2013-2017: Invited Professor of Chinese Law and Chinese Investments in Africa, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
- 2013: National qualification as Associate Professor of Comparative Law
- 2005-2013: Regular Visiting Professor of Comparative legal Systems, University of Macau (China)
- 2007, 2008, 2009: Invited Professor of International Arbitration, University of Trento
- 2003-2004: Assistant Professor in the University of Macau (China); courses taught: Comparative
Legal Systems, International Arbitration, Common law, Civil Law
legal services
- 2025-2030: Arbitrator in the Arbitrators’ Roster of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration
(SCIA) and in the South China International Arbitration center (HK)
(SCIACK) list of Recommended Arbitrators.
- since 2024: Judge of the International Court of Appeal of the Union Internationale Motonautique
(International Powerboat Union – an International Sports Federation)
- 2018-2021 and since 2024: Arbitrator, Roster of the Italian National Authority against Corruption (ANAC)
- since 2019: Of Counsel, Astone Associati Studio Legale, Rome
- since 2011: Fellow, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators of London (FCIArb)
- 2011: training course and diploma in Mediation, Rome, Italy
- since 2008: Senior Lawyer, admitted before the Italian Supreme Court
- dal 1996: Lawyer, member of the Rome Bar
military
- since 1990: Italian Navy Reserve Officer – Current rank: Lieutenant (Navy)
- 1989-1990: Lieutenant, serving in the Multinational Force and Observers based in Sinai (Egypt)
- 1987-1989: Ensign, serving in the Italian Navy General Staff, Rome HQ
- 1987: Reserve Officer Training Course (81° AUCD), Naval Academy Leghorn; ranking #2 in his class
- 1999, PhD in Comparative Law, University of Trento, attained on 29 April 1999
- 1995, Diploma di Specializzazione (LLM) in Comparative Law, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, final grade: 70/70 (summa), having ranked first on admission, with a two-year scholarship
-1992, Laurea in Giurisprudenza (JD), University of Rome “La Sapienza”; final grade: 110/110 e lode (summa cum laude)
other qualifications
- 2023: Basic Security in the Field (BSAFE) ofr UN Personnel certificate
- 2023: Black belt, 1st Dan, Tae Soo Do
- 2010: authorised to detain weapons for sport purposes
- 2009: PADI Rescue Diver certificate
- 1988: Sailboat/Motorboat sport licence
- 1986: Private Pilot Licence (not current)
Mother tongue(s)
Italiano e spagnolo
Other language(s)
Inglese - fluente
Portoghese - fluente
Francese - scolastico
Cinese Mandarino - conversazione basica
Attività professionali:
Avvocato del Foro di Roma, patrocinante in Cassazione; qualifica raggiunta avendo patrocinato, al momento della richiesta di abilitazione al patrocinio avanti le Magistrature Superiori (febbraio 2008) e nei 12 anni precedenti, in oltre 550 procedimenti tra civili, penali, amministrativi.
Tra le parti assistite persone fisiche, associazioni, imprese, sindacati, enti pubblici e soggetti con cariche pubbliche, così come Avvocati e studi legali e professionali italiani e stranieri.
Lezioni e seminari svolti a favore di Avvocati e Scuole Forensi.
aree di maggiore attività: diritto civile e commerciale, in sede stragiudiziale, giudiziale, e di soluzione alternativa delle controversie. Arbitrati sia ad hoc che, in un caso, istituzionale (Camera Arbitrale di Roma), sia in qualità di arbitro (sia come Arbitro ex parte che come Arbitro Unico) che di Difensore.
Proprietà e successioni, anche internazionali. Contratti, anche internazionali.
Diritto del Lavoro. Internazionalizzazione dell’impresa. Attività estrattive.
Diritto penale ordinario e militare, indagini difensive.
Dal 2017 nell'Elenco Speciale dei Docenti Universitari presso il Consiglio dell'ordine degli Avvocati di Roma
Attività editoriali, di ricerca, traduzioni giuridiche:
Research
Founding member (2009) and incumbent Vice President (Projects) of Juris Diversitas, an international association of researchers on legal hybridity and diffusion, based in Lausanne, Switzerland - (more on www.jurisdiversitas.blogspot.com)
since 2018, Editor of the Juris Diversitas Book Series, Routledge (formerly Ashgate)
since 2024, Vice-Coordinator of the PhD Program Council in the Faculty of Law of the University of Teramo – PhD Program in “Harmonisation of Law Between History and System”
Since August, 2023: member of the executive board of the private Italian Foundation “Il Salotto Giuridico”, involved in legal research, dissemination, and continuing education
Since 2022, member of the Scientific Committee of the Research Center on Transition, Sustainability and Global Challenges of the University of Teramo (Italy)
since 2019, Member of the PhD Program Council in the Faculty of Law of the University of Teramo – PhD Program in “Harmonisation of Law Between History and System”
2015-2018, Research Associate, Center for Comparative Law in Africa, University of Cape Town
September 2011- December 2013, Associate to the Institute for the Theory and Technique of Legal Information of the Italian National Research Council.
Rapporteur for the Macao Special Adiministrative Region of the P.R.C., to the XVII International Cofnerence of the International Academy of Comparative Law (Utrecht 2006), -- report published in E. Hondius (ed.), Precedent and the Law, Brussels, Bruylant, 2007, 349 ss.; – also in Cadernos de Ciência Jurídica, Macao, 2008, 149, rcollection of the Macao Reports to the Utrecht Conference
1994-2006, partipipation to the UNILEX project of the Italian National Research Council, directed by Prof. M. J. Bonell, researchin, collecting, classifying in a database the world’s literature and case-law on the Vienna Convention of 1980 on International Sales of Goods (CISG) and on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts; www.unilex.info -- since 2002 as Senior Editor of the UNILEX database.
Publicly funded research projects & grants
2023: Grant received by the Italian MInistry of University as Principal Investigator in a National Interest Research Project (PRIN PNRR) on: "Energy Commons", leading a research group of 12 scholars from the Universities of Teramo, Campobasso, Palermo, Catania – overall research grant: €. 225.000.
Grants received by the Italian MInistry of University, for no. 2 PhD proposals of Academic-Industrial PhD research projects, in 2020 (on Blockchain technology, logistics and food supply chiains) and 2023 (on OSINT in the digital space)
Since 2023, Foreign Expert in The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology funded Foreign Expert Project: 中国科技部外专项目“全球地缘政治转型：中国与‘新’国际法” - “Global Geopolitical Transformation, China, and ‘New’ International Law” – University od Lanzhou, P.R.C. – grant no. DL2023175001L, budget: CNY 480,000 (circa €. 60.000,00)
2020-2023 University of Malta, Deptartments of Civil Law, European Law, and IT
"Systematising Smart Contracts within Classical Contract Law Theory", gov. Malta, €. 48.000
Leading a research unit from the University di Teramo, with a view to developing a questionnaire, as a base for a book project:
- Smart Contracts, proposed at the European research project Common Core of European Private Law, by David Zammit, Kurt Xerri, Ignazio Castellucci, Tobias Pinkel; book project approved by the Board of the Common Core, and now developing the pool of national Rapporteurs.
Minor research grants obtained in the University of Teramo in 2017 (€. 3.000) and 2019 (e. 1.500)
Translations and other institutional activities
2017: expert witness for the Court of Teramo (Italy), in a civil case related to the German law of insurance
2017: member of the Scientific Committee of Fonderia Abruzzo, a think-tank of the Italian region of Abruzzo aimed at producing analyses and proposals for regional legislative reforms
2003-2004, Consultant to the Government of the Macao Special Adiministrative Region of the People’s Republic of China for the translation into English language of laws and regulations of the Territory
2002 (with Prof. Carlo Fusaro), co-author of the English translation of the Italian Constitution for the “ICL Project” of the Institute of Public Law of the University of Berne (Switzerland), featuring the collection and translation of all the world’s Constitutions. Online: www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/it00000_html.
Academic societies’ Memberships and research groups:
Co-founder (2009), and incumbent Vice President of Juris Diversitas, an international Society of interdisciplinary research in/on comparative law, legal hybridity, and diffusion, seated in Lausanne (Switzerland)
Member: AIDC – Associazione Italiana di Diritto Comparato
Member: ECLS – European China Law Studies Association
Member: Associazione Italiana per l'Arbitrato
- CASS, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing: regularly invited as Foreign Expert to the annual meetings of the Rule of Law seminar, since December 2012 to November 2018:
- In 2012 as keynote speaker, presenting: Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics
- November 2013: The Italian Legal Tools to Fight the Mafia Phenomenon;
- November 2014: Law-Making in China: Systemic Normative Pluralism, Reactive Legislation
- December 2015: Supervision v. Checks & Balances: competing or cooperating?
- November 2016: Three patterns of legal reform: the Roman Empire, France, China
- November 2017: Rule of Law and State Governance Modernisation
- November 2018: Rule of Law and Global Law: Are They Contradictory?
Assessment activity for the academic rating of South African Law Professors research output, as entrusted by the National Research Foundation of the Republic of South Africa (nrf@ac.za)
Editorships, Editorial committees
Since 2018, Editor of the Juris Diversitas Book Series (Routledge, formerly Ashgate)
Since 2024, member of the Scientific Committee of the Giano Affari Internazionali Book Series
Since 2024, member of the Scientific Committee of the Book Series of the Research Centre on Ecologic Transition, Sustainability and Global Challenges of the University of Teramo
Since 2024, member of the board of revievers of the journal RiDAO - Rivista di Diritto dell’Asia Orientale
Since 2023, member of the board of revievers of the journal Trusts e Attività Fiduciarie, directed by M. Lupoi
Since 2022, member of the Scientific Committee of the italian academic journal (“A-tier”) Roma e America
Since 2020, member of the Scientific Committee, Limes Club of the Unviersity of Calabria
since 2017, co-Editor of the Juris Diversitas Book Series together with Sean Patrick Donlan and Julian Sidoli Del Ceno
since 2015, member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Comparative Law in Africa
since 2015, Member of the Review Committee of the Journal Roma e America
since 2014, Member of the Editorial Board of the Juris Diversitas book series, Ashgate publishing house
since 2012, member of che editorial committee of Éforos, journal of the Instituto Latinoamericano del Ombudsman - Defensor del Pueblo (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2011-2014, member of the Advisory Board of the Anuario Americanista Europeo, research annual publication of the CEISAL – Centro de Investigacciones Sociales Sobre America Latina, a Center for Social Research on Latin America participated by over 50 universities and research centers from Europe and Latin-American.
1995-1998, member of the editorial committee directed by M.J. Bonell of the Observatory for case law on CISG, the Vienna Convention on International Sale of Goods of 1980, for the Journal Diritto del Commercio Internazionale.
Peer-reviewer for the following Journals: Global Jurist; Opinio Iuris in Comparatione; Frontiers of Law in China; International Journal of Law in Context; Journal of Comparative law in Africa; African Studies; Roma e America; The Hague Journal of Rule of Law; Fudan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences; International Journal of Law in Context; NAM -Nuova Antologia Militare; Trust e Attività Fiduciarie; and for reviewing books for Springer and Routledge.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Books authored
- Pluralismo giuridico nell’arcipelago malese, Naples, ESI, 2024 (on legal pluralism in the Malay archipelago)
- European Security in a Post-Brexit World (together with S. Paladini), Emerald, 2019
- Rule of Law and Legal Complexity in the People’s Republic of China, 103 Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche, Trento, 2012 (a research on the Chinese concept of ‘the rule of law’ and related issues)
- Sistema Jurídico Latinoamericano. Una verifica, Torino, Giappichelli, 2011 (a research on sources of law in Latin America)
- Le grandi tradizioni giuridiche dell’Asia, Trento, 2009 (a little handbook on Asian Legal Traditions for students at the University of Trento)
Books and journal issues edited:
6. Opinio Juris in Comparatione, Special issue of the journal no. 1/2023: conference proceedings of the 2021 Juris Diversitas International Cofnerence The Dark Side of the Law
7. Gnosis - Rivista Italiana di Intelligence, institutional journal of the Italian Government department on Information and Security, monographic issue no. 2 of 2020 on: Law and Geopolitics
8. Saggi di diritto economico e commerciale cinese (Essays on Chinese Economic and Commercial Law), with an authored introductory essay, Trento, 2019
9. A. Martelli, I. Castellucci (eds.), Kraino: essere voce e non eco – proceedings of the 2017-2018 trans-disciplinary seminar of the University di Teramo on communications, soft skills and innovative teaching, Roma, Aracne, 2019
10. The Globalisation and Macau: The External Role of Macau as a Platform between Asia-Pacific and Latin America, Macao, Macau Foundation, 2018
Chapters in books and main essays:
11. Geolaw, in Global Jurist, 2024 – forthcoming
12. Il d.d.l. <> 2024: danno, responsabilità, questioni assicurative, in S. Zolea e T. Graziani (a cura di), Verso una lege italiana sullo spazio, in the book series Giano Affari Internazionali, Roma, Callive, 2025, 55-72
13. Una historia del nombre en derecho argentino, in S. Lanni e D.F. Esborraz (a cura di), Diez años de la aprobación del Código Civil y Comercial Argentino, in the book series Roma e America. Sistema giuridico latinoamericano. Studi, Napoli, ESI, 2024, 171-194
- The Dark Side of Space Law, in S. Zolea (ed.), Proceedings of the International conference of 9-10 February 2024 on Space law, Università Roma Tre, RomaTre Press, 2024, 117-131
- Chapter: Korea, in M. Mazza (ed.) Diritti del Lontano Oriente, Trattato di Diritto Pubblico Comparato directed by G.F. Ferrari Spanish edition, Editorial Juridica Venezolana, 2023, 327-432 (sections 3.2.7. and 3.2.8. authored by Andrea Serafino; sections 3.2.2. and 3.2.3. co-authored with Andrea Serafino)
- Italian edition: Padua, Cedam Wolters Kluwer, 2019 , 12-15 and 297-40
- English edition, Eleven International, The Hague, 2019
18. Sovereign States, Private Actors, and (National) Space Laws. A Rapidly Evolving Landscape (con S. Paladini), in C. Cockell (a cura di), The Institutions of Extraterrestrial Liberty, Oxford University Press, 2022, 366-383
19. Commentary to Articles 815 and 816, on Insurance contracts, in A. Borroni (ed.), Commentario al codice civile georgiano (Commentary on the Georgian Civil Code) Tbilisi, 2022, 274-294
20. L’organizzazione e il funzionamento della giustizia in Cina (organisation and functioning of justice in China), In C. Tugnoli e M. Cozzio (eds.), Teorie e pratiche della giustizia, Trento, 2022, 295 - 314
21. Public Governance of the Blockchain Revolution and Its Implications for Social Finance: A Comparative Analysis (con S. Paladini e E. Yerushalmi), in T.Walker, J. McGaughey, S. Goubran, N. Wagdy (a cura di), Innovations in Social Finance, Springer – Palgrave MacMillan, 2021, 293-318
22. China and Hong Kong: One Country, One Security System , in Mondo Cinese – n. 167, summer 2020
23. Geodiritto (Geo-law), in Gnosis, 2020, no. 2, 20-33
24. Piccolo cronoideario geogiuridico (a compact geo-legal chrono-ideary), in Gnosis, 2020, no. 2, 180-189
25. Chapter: Corea (North and South), in R. Cavalieri (ed.), Diritto dell’Asia Orientale, Venice, 2019, 131-178
26. Oriente e Occidente – Per una geostoria del diritto italiano, in Italy on the Rimland (East and West: a Geo-history of Italian Law), in V. Ilari (ed.), Quaderni della S.I.S.M., 2019, I, 535 - 546
27. Homo oeconomicus sinicus, in I.Castellucci (ed.), Saggi di diritto economico e commerciale cinese, 39 Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche dell’Università di Trento, Napoli, Editoriale Scientifica, 2019, 5 - 32
28. Ancora su ordinamenti e sistema, in Atti della Summer School 2018 dell’Università di Brescia, Torino, 2019, 49
29. Ius Romanum, Sistema jurídico latinoamericano, ordenamientos, in Roma e America, 39 (2018), 323-340
30. Pressioni esterne sull’evoluzione recente della r.c.a. tedesca (external pressures on the German system of law of traffic tort liability), in L. Ammannati, P. Corrias, F. Sartori, A. Sciarrone Alibrandi (a cura di) I giudici e l’economia, Torino, Giappichelli, 2018, 261
31. Castellucci, The Many Roles for Macau within China: Macau’s Legal Environment, in I. Castellucci (a cura di), The Globalisation and Macau: The External Role of Macau as a Platform between Asia-Pacific and Latin America– Part III: Law, Macao, Fondazione Macao, 2017
- Researching and Teaching (Comparative) Law in Africa, proceedings of the First International Workshop of the Research Centre for Comparative Law in Africa; Claremont, Juta, 2015, 63-74, 9-781485-107453
33. Identità latinoamericana e ruolo degli Abogados secondo Hanns-Abert Steger, in Roma e America, 36 (2015), 25
34. Il Giurista, cuore del sistema nella tradizione romanista latinoamericana, in Roma e America, 36 (2015), 239 (the jurist as the core of Latin American Romanist legal tradition)
35. L’idea di Rule of Law nella Repubblica Popolare Cinese, in R. Cavalieri (ed.), Diritti, cittadini e potere in Cina, 12 Sulla via del Catai, Centro Martini Martini, Trento, 2015 (the idea of rule of law in the PRC)
36. The Ancient Euro-Mediterranean Radication of the Aversion for Usury, in M.Y. Mattar, V.V. Palmer, A. Koppel (eds.), Mixed Legal Systems: East And West, Ashgate Juris Diversitas Series, 2015, 255
37. Il diritto italiano nelle micro-giurisdizioni: San Marino, Città del Vaticano, Malta; in Annuario di Diritto Comp., 2014, 693 (Italian Law in Micro-Jurisdictions: San Marino, the Vatican City, Malta)
38. L’influenza della tradizione giuridica italiana nel diritto portoghese, in Annuario di Diritto Comparato, 2014, 585, together with João Nuno Calvão da Silva (The Influence of the Italian Legal tradition in Portuguese Law)
39. Comparative Law in Asia, in Tong Io Cheng – S. Mancuso (eds.) New Frontiers of Comparative Law, Lexis-Nexis, 2013, 73-88.
- How mixed must a mixed system be? In Tong Io Cheng – S. Mancuso (eds.) New Frontiers of Comparative Law, Hong Kong-Singapore-Malaysia, Lexis-Nexis, 2013, 173-191
- - anche in Boletím da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Macau, 30 (2010);
- - anche in 12.1 Electronic Journal of Comparative Law 2008 (May 2008); online: http://www.ejcl.org/121/art121-4.pdf;
43. Classificando i sistemi giuridici africani, in Annuario di Diritto Comparato, 2013, 261-303 (with Marco Guadagni) (on Classifying African Law)
44. Legal Hybridity in Hong Kong and Macau, in McGill Law Journal (2012) 57: 4, 1, 665-720
45. Aspetti giuridici comuni e/o di interesse per i paesi BRICS nell’ambito del commercio internazionale, proceedings of the Seminar of 7-8 September 2011 on “the Legal Dymension of BRICS”, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, 2012 (Common and/or Interesting Legal Aspects for BRICS Countries in the Domain of International Business Law)
- One Country, Two Systems, in Mondo Cinese, n.147, December 2011, 77
- Il diritto nel mondo dei molti imperi, in Eurasia, 3/2011, 103 (Law in a Multi-Imperial World)
48. Reflections on the Legal features of the Socialist Market Economy, in Frontiers of Law in China, 3/2011, 343-368
49. World Laws vs. Global Law: legal Models for the World economy – A non-Western Approach to Law and ADR as a Resource for South-South, South-East business Relations, in Bocconi Legal Papers, 2011 – 01; online: www.bocconilegalpapers.org
- Chinese Law: a new Hybrid?, in E. Cashin Ritaine, S.P. Donalan, M.Sychold (eds.), Comparative Law and Hybrid Legal Traditions, 67 Publications of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (2010), 75
- Una Lex Mercatoria Regional para el Caribe, en Actas del Congreso Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Arbitraje Comercial Internacional, La Habana, 24-26 Junio de 2010; online: https://www.ohadac.com/bibliographie/26/una-lex-mercatoria-regional-para-el-caribe.html
52. Eclectic Legal Reforms in Africa and the Challenges of Reality: the Case of Eritrean Family Law, in C.C. Nweze (ed.), Contemporary Issues of International and Comparative Law: Essays in Honour of Christian Nwachukwu Okeke, Lake Mary FL, 2009, 599
53. La tradizione del diritto romano e il moderno diritto transnazionale degli affari, proceedings of the XII Colloquium of Central-Eastern European and Asian Roman Lawyers, Irkutsk, 2009 (Roman Law and Modern Transnational Business Law)
54. Law v. Statute, Ius v. Lex: an Analysis of a Critical Relation in Roman and Civil Law (2008), Global Jurist, 8, Issue 1 (Advances), article n.5; online: http://www.bepress.com/gj/vol8/iss1/art5
55. National Report on the Macau Special Administratyive Region of the People’s Republic of China, to the XVII conference of the International Academy of Comparative Law (Utrecht, 2006), in E.Hondius (ed.), Precedent and the Law, Brussels, 2007, 349;
56. also in Cadernos de Ciência Jurídica, Macau, 2008, 149
57. Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics, in Annual Survey of International and Comparative Law 13 (2007), 35.
58. The Rule of Law and the Role of Law in the Chinese Context, in Culture, law and Order; Chinese and Western Traditions, Matteo Ricci Institute Studies 4, Macau, 2007, 91.
59. Ambiente, sicurezza e difesa, in Quaderni della Rivista Giuridica dell’Ambiente, 18 (2006), 475 ss.
60. Codifications in the Western Legal Tradition,
61. also in Cinese: Na Po Lun FaDian Han Er Bai Nian Lai De FaDian Bian Zuan
-- Both in Boletím da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Macau, 17 (2004);
62. also in: Tong Io Cheng – S. Mancuso (eds.) New Frontiers of Comparative Law, Lexis-Nexis, 2013, 155-171
63. Il Diritto e la Legge: studio comparativo di una relazione critica tra le fonti (Law and Statute: a comparative study of a critical relation between legal sources)
64. also in Cinese: Fa Lu Yu Fa: LuoMa Fa Yu DaLu Fa Zhong Yao GuanXi De Fen Xi.
-- Both in Boletím da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Macau, 16 (2003).
- La tutela dell’ambiente nell’ordinamento giuridico della Repubblica Popolare Cinese: un case study sul funzionamento del sistema, in Rivista Giuridica dell’Ambiente (on Chinese environmental law), 2003, 1, 59 ss.
- Convergence between the civil law and common law models of legal system,
- also in Chinese: MinFa Fa Xi He PuTong Fa Xi De FaLu Zhi Du Mo Shi De QuXiang -- both in Boletím da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Macau, 14 (2003)
68. Il nuovo diritto dell’Eritrea: il diritto di famiglia (Eritrean family law), in L. Favali, E. Grande, M.Guadagni (eds.),New Laws for New States, Turin, 1998.
69. La consuetudine nel diritto romano-giustinianeo e nel diritto argentino: natura e forza normativa (customary law in Justinean Roman Law and in Argentine Law: nature and binding force), nel Cardozo Law Bulletin dell’Università di Trento (www.jus.unitn.it), 1996, 2.
Short articles, Introductions, Reviews, Other writings
- Introduction to the Special issue of Opinio Juris in Comparatione (“A-tier” journal), 1/2023, with the proceedings of the Juris Diversitas International Conference of 2021 - The Dark Side of the Law, pp. 124 ss.
- (together with F. Coppola) Il sistema sanzionatorio decentrati del DSA: dinamica dell'apparato istituzionale (artt. 49, 50, 55, 61-63 - Capo IV, Sezioni I, II e III , in L'impatto del Digital Services Act (DSA) sulla legislazione italiana – special issue edited by Tassone, in Diritto di Internet, 2023, 1, pp. 49 ss. (a commentary on the EU Digital Services Act of 2023)
- Introductory chapter, section El derecho público de los países del sureste asiático entre complejidad y pluralismo, in M. Mazza (ed.) Los Sistemas Constitucionales del Lejano Oriente, in Tratado de Derecho Publico Comparado cordinated and directed by G.F. Ferrari, Editorial Jurídica Venezolana, Caracas, 2023, 29-35:
- Italian edition, Padova, Cedam Wolters Kluwer, 2019, 12-15
- English edition, The Hague, Eleven International, 2019, 12-14
- Analisi e sintesi, in Gnosis – Rivista Italiana di Intelligence del D.I.S. della Presidenza del Consiglio, 1/2021,
- Le Potenze alla guerra del diritto, in Limes, 2020, no. 5 (June 2020), 207-212
77. Forma e sostanza, in A. Martelli, I. Castellucci (a cura di), Kraino: essere voce e non eco, Roma, Aracne, 2019
78. Review to: P Butler e C Morris (eds), Small states in a legal world, Springer, 2017; in 2018 Small States & Territories, 1, 1, 13.
79. Intelligence and European security in the aftermath of Brexit: an Italian perspective, (con S. Paladini) in 2017 Journal of Intelligence History, DOI: 10.1080/16161262.2017.1333688
80. Review to: John W. Head, Great legal Traditions, North Carolina University Press, 2011, in: Frontiers of Law in China, 4/2012
- La tutela dell’ambiente nell’ordinamento giuridico di Macao e di Hong Kong (Protection of Environment in the Legal Systems of Macao and Hong Kong), in Rivista Giuridica dell’Ambiente, 2004, 2,
82. I due memorandum of understanding per la salvaguardia delle tartarughe marine della costa atlantica dell’Africa e dell’Oceano Indiano e sud-est asiatico, in Rivista Giuridica dell’Ambiente, XVI (2001), 5, 729
83. Procedimento per estradizione ed indagine difensiva (extradition proceedings and defence counsel investigations in favour of the accused), in Detective and Crime, n. 9-10/1996.
84. Principi Unidroit e il Progetto Lando (Unidroit Principles and Lando Project), short article and book review, in Rivista Critica del Diritto Privato, 1995.
Teaching
Since October 2015, University of Teramo: Invited Professor, then (2016) Assistant Professor, then (2019) Associate Professor of Private Comparative Law, then (2024) Full professor, teaching courses of Private Comparative Law and International Commercial Law
2019-2023: Invited professor of Asian Legal Traditions in the Catholic University of Lille
2013-2017, University of Cape Town: Invited Professor of Chinese Law and Chinese Investments in Africa
Since October 2010: University of Malta: yearly invited Professor of Comparative Legal Systems and Legal Pluralism
2005-2017, University of Trento, Faculty of Law, Invited Professor of Asian legal Traditions and Chinese Law
2004-2013, University of Macau (China), Faculty of Law, Regular Visiting Professor of Comparative Legal Systems in a Master Program in International, European and Comparative Law.
Fall 2007, 2008, 2009: University di Trento, Faculty of Economy and Business: Invited Professor of International Arbitration in a Master Program in Transnational Business
1996-1997: University of Asmara (Eritrea): Lecturer of Private Law and Family Law
Winter/Summer Schools, short visiting professorships
19-20 January 2021, Winter school, Kutafin University of Moscow: Law in the digital space : conflict, regulation, governance
November 2019, National Law University, New Delhi, e Rajiv Gandhi National University, Patiala (Punjab), India: lectures in the Summer School directed by W. Menski on Legal Pluralism and Governance in the Global South,
May 2018, Visiting Professor at the Maritime University of Odessa (Ukraine): Global Law and Legal Issues
Since 2016, annual lectures at the Summer School of the University of Brescia, in Roman Law, Comparative Law, and Latin American Legal System directed by A. Saccoccio
2004 – 2010, National University di Taipei, Taiwan:
- Seminars within Master Programme in Criminology, October 2005, November 2006, November 2010: Legislative tools for Fighting Organised Crime in Italy
- Seminar within Master Programme in Criminology, November 2008 and November 2009: Comparative analysis of some national legislations on intelligence and security
- Seminar within Master Programme in Criminology, February 2004: Adversary vs. Inquisitory System: a Historic Overview
Since 2005, lectures and seminars in undergraduate, master and PhD programs in several Italian and foreign universities, including:
- Salerno, Genova, Torino, Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma “Tor Vergata”, Roma III, Teramo, Teramo-Avezzano, Campobasso, Trieste, Trento, Alessandria, Venezia Ca’ Foscari, Milano Bicocca, Milano Bocconi
- Rovaniemi/Lapland (Finland), Helsinki (Finland), Limerick (Ireland), Beiijing/BeiDa (China), Beijing Zhengfa (China), Shanghai ZhengFa (China), Lanzhou (China), Xiangtan (China), Coimbra (Portugal), La Plata (Argentina)
Topics: Rule of Law in China; Chinese Legal History; International Business Law, Arbitration, and Lex Mercatoria; Arbitration in China; Hong Kong and Macao within China; Chinese Environmental Law; Asian Legal Traditions; Korean law; Global Legal and Geo-Legal issues.
February 2003-October 2004, Full-time Assistant Professor in the University of Macau, having taught courses of Business Law, Comparative Legal Systems, European Continental Law (civil law), International Arbitration.
a.y. 1996-97, Lecturer in the University of Asmara, Eritrea, of Introduction to private law and Family law, within the frame of a cooperation project between the University of Trento and the University of Asmara for the reconstruction of the latter.
Seminars of private law in the same university also in a.y. 1997-98.
1995-98, Assistant to the Chairs of Civil Law (Prof. Ugo Mattei) and African Law (Prof. Marco Guadagni), University of Trento
1993-2009, Assistant to the Chair of Comparative Law (prof. M.J. Bonell) University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Other academic- related activities:
Since 2024: Chairman of the Internationalisation Committee of the Faculty of Law, University of Teramo
since 2024: Member of the Internationalisation Committee of the University of Teramo
since 2022: Chairman of the Academic Committee of the University of Teramo for Innovative Teaching
since 2021: Chairman of the Third Mission Committee of the Faculty of Law, University of Teramo
since 2020: Member of the Research Quality Committee of the Faculty of Law, University of Teramo
since 2020: member of the Scientific Commitee of the CORiFISI – a Center for research and teaching for the deaf and other communicationally-challenged persons, founded by the four Universities of Abruzzo
since 2019: member of the PhD Programme Scientific Council of the University of Teramo, Faculty of Law
since 2018: member of the Special Group of the University of Teramo for study, research and teaching inrelation to communicationally-challenged persons
a.y. 2003-2004: member of the Graduate Studies Committee of the University of Macau, People’s Republic of China, including participation in the drafting group of the Regulations for PhD programs
a.y. 2003-2004, designer, drafter of relevant regulations, organiser and first coordinator of a Master Program in European Union, International and Comparative Law
1996-1997, participation to the cooperation project between the Universities of Trento (Italy) and Asmara (Eritrea), for the reorganisation and development of activities of the Faculty of Law in Asmara, under the guidance of Marco Guadagni and Ugo Mattei
Gradimento studenti :
- nei dieci anni di insegnamento trentino del diritto cinese e delle tradizioni giuridiche dell’asia, gradimento rilevato in forma anonima non inferiore al 85% e in alcuni anni pari al 95-100% ; il corso è stato complessivamente rilevato nell’a.a. 2013-2014 come rientrante nel primo quartile nella graduatoria del gradimento di tutti corsi offerti dalla Facoltà.
- nell’Università di CapeTown le rilevazioni anonime hanno prodotto una volontà dichiarata del 70% degli studenti nel 2014 e del 100% degli studenti nel 2015 di proporre il docente come candidato al Best Teacher Award dell’Università di Cape Town (competizione riservata però ai docenti strutturati di quell’Università)
Main participation to Conferences, Seminars:
Events organised, membership of scientific committees of events etc.:
- Panama city, January 2024, International Conference on Notarial Law and issues, organised by Sapèienza University of Rome, the Panamenian national Institute of Higher Education of the Judiciary, and the Italian Foundation “Il Salotto Giuridico”
- Annual conferences of the Juris Diversitas society:
- Macau, October 2024
- Palermo, June 202
- Catania, Italy, June 2021 (online)
- Potchefstroom, South Africa, 2019
- Lyon, France, July 2017
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US, June 2016
- Limerick, Ireland, June 2015;
- Aix-en-Provence, France, July 2014;
- Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2013;
- Bucarest, July 2019, member of the Scientific Committee of the Seminar of the Grupo de Trabajo de Jurisprudencia within the CEISAL - Centro de Investigaciones Sociales sobre America Latina
- Saint Petersburg, October 2015, member of the Scientific Committee of the Seminar of the Grupo de Trabajo de Jurisprudencia within the CEISAL - Centro de Investigaciones Sociales sobre America Latina
- - Trento, Italy, may 2015: Dieci anni di diritto cinese a Trento, Maggio 2015, Università di Trento (Ten Years of Teachng Chinese Law in Trento)
- - Jersey (UK), April 2015, Juris Diversitas Workshop on Micro-Jurisdictions
- Turin, february 2013, Crossroads East-West - Visions of the Economy in the Islamic and Western Legal Traditions –
International Workshop
Keynote and closing speeches:
Potchefstroom, April 2019: On Spatiality and Roots of the Law, keynote speech at the 6th Juris Diversitas International Conference
Lyon, July 2017: Law Kitchen – closing speech at the 5th Juris Diversitas International Conference, on Law & Food
Aix-en-Provence, luglio 2014: member of the closing panel at the 2nd Juris Diversitas International Conference
Lausanne, June 2013: closing speech at the First Juris Diversitas International Conference
Turin, february 2013: closing speech at the Crossroads East-West - Visions of the Economy in the Islamic and Western Legal TraditionsInternational Workshop
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Law Institute, Beijing, December 2012: keynote speaker at the International workshop on the Rule of Law
Other presentations at conferences, workshops etc.
Special Session at the International Astronautical Congress of Milan, 18 October 2024 – presentation and execution of an interactive simulation/role play with the audience, simulating the negotiation process taking place on Mars in year 2075, to prepare a new Mars Treaty
Session organisers: Sirio Zolea, Ignazio Castellucci, Stefania Paladini, Maria Rhimbassen
University Roma Tre, 9 February 2024, international conference on Space Law. Paper presented: The Dark Side of the (Space) Law
Panama, ISJUP, 12 January 2024, research, continuing educationand comparative notarial law conference, on ‘Foreign documents of Power of Attorney’, together with the local Natioinal Higher Education Institute for Judges; event organised by the Foundation Il Salotto Giuridico
University La Sapienza of Rome, Faculty of Law, 13 December 2023, Lecture on Geo-Legal Issues
University of Lanzhou, 4 December 2023, kick-off meeting of the international research project Global Geopolitical Transformation, China, and ‘New’ International Law
University La Sapienza of Rome, Faculty of Law, 7 November 2023, Seminar on ‘The Jurist and intelligence activities’
University of Verona, 28 September 2023, inervention at the Seminar on ‘Shipwrecked and Migrants’
University of Malta, 14-16 June 2023, 5th International conference of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdictions Jurists. Paper: The Enigmatic Creativity of Mixed Jurisdictions’ Jurists
Milan, Statale University, 8 June 2023, Lecture onu Food Law in China
Rome La sapienza University, 3 febbraio 2023, Discussant al seminario dei giovani comparatisti dell’AIDC.
Rome, La Sapienza University (26 gennaio 2023) and Luiss University (27 gennaio 2023), seminars on ‘Georgian insurance law’
- Petersburg, in memoriam conference for Gabriele Crespi Reghizzi, 30 December 2022
Santiago, Chile, Los Andes University, 5 December 2022, Italian-Chilean colloquium of Roman Law, paper presented: Sources of obligations of a negotiated type, and codifications of law
University of Edinburgh, June 8-11th, 2021: Seminars on The Institutions of Extraterrestrial Liberty – presentation: Sovereign States, Private Actors, and (National) Space Laws. A Changing Landscape (together with S. Paladini)
CASS - Chinese Academic of Social Sciences, Beijing: invited as a foreign expert to the international workshops on the Rule of Law:
- in November 2012 as a keynote speaker -- speech: Chinese Law: Variable Geometries
- in November 2013, presentation: The Italian Legal Tools to Fight the Mafia Phenomenon;
- in November 2014, presentation: Law-Making in China: Systemic Normative Pluralism, Reactive Legislation
- in December 2015, presentation: Supervision v. Checks & Balances: competing or cooperating?
- in November 2016, presentation: Three patterns of legal reform: the Roman Empire, France, China
- in November 2017 presentation: Rule of Law and State Governance Modernisation
- in November 2018, presentation: Rule of Law and Globalisation: are they contradictory?
May 2016, international conference Road to New Paradigms: Impact of China’s Silk Road Initiative in China, Central Asia and the EU;presentation: The Silk Road initiative: Exporting the Chinese Model
Washington D.C., World Bank, November 2015: Law, Justice and Development Week 2015 organised by the Global Forum for Law, Justice and Development -- speaker in an event in the format of the Knowledge Café on Law and geopolitics
University of St. Petersburg, October 2015, Seminar of the Grupo de Trabajo de Jurisprudencia of the CEISAL (Centre for Social Investigations on Latin America); presentation: L’Identità del sistema giuridico latinoamericano (Latin American Legal Identity)
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, September 2015: participation to the round table Diritto e giustizia nella Cina di Xi Jinping, organised by R. Cavalieri (Law and Justice in Xi Jinping’s China).
Chinese University of Hong Kong, novembre 2014, Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association, presentation: Law-Making in China: Systemic Normative Pluralism, Reactive Legislation
University of Catania, June 2014, speech delivered at a workshop within the framework of a research project on mediterranean Legal Hybridity: Islamic Law and Finance Today
Turin, IUC, Crossroads East-West: Visions of the Economy in the Islamic and Western Legal Traditions, International Workshop, february 2013; presentation: Two Stories Coming Full Circle
University of Capetown, October 2012, International Workshop: Comparative Law in Africa.
Dushanbe, August 2012: International Seminar on Islamic economic Law
The University of Malta / Johns Hopkins University international seminar, May 2012: Mixed Legal Systems and Islamic Law – East and West – presentation: The Euromediterraniean Radication of the Aversion for Ribah
Other presentations:
University of Edinburgh, 8-11 June 2021: conference on The Institutions of Extraterrestrial Liberty – presentation: Sovereign States, Private Actors, and (National) Space Laws. A Changing Landscape (with S. Paladini)
Kutafin University of Moscow, international conferences Current Problems of Law:
- April 2021, presentation: How Intelligent Should the Law Be?
- January 2021, presentation: Spatiality of Law in the Global Context
- April 2020, presentation: The Italian Constitutional, institutional and legal framework providing for the financial stability of the State, the correct management of public resources and the fight against corruption – in a nutshell.
Rajiv Gandhi National University, Patiala (Punjab) and National Law University, New Delhi, India, November 2019: parteicipation as Teacher in the Summer School on Legal Pluralism and Governance in the Global South, directed by W. Menski
CASS, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing: regularly invited as foreign expert to the annual international conference on Rule of Law, since 2012 to 2018:
- December 2012, as keynote speaker: Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics
- November 2013, presentation: The Italian Legal Tools to Fight the Mafia Phenomenon;
- November 2014, presentation: Law-Making in China: Systemic Normative Pluralism, Reactive Legislation
- December 2015, presentaztion: Supervision v. Checks & Balances: competing or cooperating?
- November 2016, presentation: Three patterns of legal reform: the Roman Empire, France, China
- November 2017, presentation: Rule of Law and State Governance Modernisation
- November 2018, presentation: Rule of Law and Global Law: Are They Contradictory?
University of Teramo, 8-9 November 2018: Conference Il diritto al fronte: trasformazioni giuridiche e sociali in Italia nella Grande Guerra (Social and Legal changes in Italy during WW1); presentation: Grande Guerra e disciplina delle sopravvenienze contrattuali: profili comparatistici (on contractual hardship)
Turin, September 2018, 13th General Conference of the European Chinese Legal Studies Association; presentation: Kǒng Fūzǐ (孔夫子), Shāng jūn (商君) , Mao Zedong, Xi Jinping: Elements of Continuity in Chinese Political-Legal Doctrines
University of Lecce (Italy), December 2016: workshop on Migration Policies and Legal Transplants in the Mediterranean Area; presentation: Governance dei flussi migratori, diritto e ordine pubblico (migrations, governance, law and public policy)
Helsinki, May 2016, internartional conference Road to New Paradigms: Impact of China’s Silk Road Initiative in China, Central Asia and the EU;presentation: The Silk Road initiative: Exporting the Chinese Model
Washington D.C., November 2015: Law, Justice and Development Week 2015 del Global Forum for Law, Justice and Development, presso la World Bank: speaker in a Knowledge Café formant, on the topic: “Law and Geopolitics”
University of St. Petersburg, October 2015, Seminar of the Grupo de Trabajo de Jurisprudencia of the CEISAL (Centre for Social Investigations on Latin America); presentation: L’Identità del sistema giuridico latinoamericano (Latin American Legal Identity)
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, September 2015: participation to the round table Diritto e giustizia nella Cina di Xi Jinping, organised by R. Cavalieri (Law and Justice in Xi Jinping’s China).
Chinese University of Hong Kong, novembre 2014, Annual Conference of the European China Law Studies Association, presentation: Law-Making in China: Systemic Normative Pluralism, Reactive Legislation
University of Catania, June 2014, speech delivered at a workshop within the framework of a research project on mediterranean Legal Hybridity: Islamic Law and Finance Today
University of Trento, maggio 2013, speech delivered at a workshop within the framework of a research project on Legal Pluralism; presentation: Personal Laws in the Philippines.
University of Catania, May 2013, Filling the Gaps: Law and Justice - International Workshop: Filling the Gaps in Latin America
Turin, IUC, Crossroads East-West: Visions of the Economy in the Islamic and Western Legal Traditions, International Workshop, february 2013; presentation: Two Stories Coming Full Circle
University of Capetown, October 2012, International Workshop: Comparative Law in Africa.
Dushanbe, August 2012: International Seminar on Islamic Economic Law
The University of Malta / Johns Hopkins University international seminar, May 2012: Mixed Legal Systems and Islamic Law – East and West – presentation: The Euromediterraniean Radication of the Aversion for Ribah
Solbridge School of Business, Daejeon, Korea, Master Program in International Business Novembre 2011, seminar: East – West business practices
University of Macau, November 2011, international conference: “The Future of Comparative Law” - paper: Comparative Law in Asia
S.Petersburg, Higher School of Economics, September 2011, seminar: “the legal dimension of BRICS”; papaer: common or interesting legal aspects for BRICS countries in international commerce
University of Dushanbe, Tajikistan, October 2011, First Colloquium of Euro-Asian Roman Lawyers; paper: Utility of Roman Law fr the development of a legal frame for commercial and financial exchanges in central Asia
University of Rome “La Sapienza” – Roundtable on the legal dimension of the grouping of BRICS countries, March 2011
University of Macau, November 2010, seminar: the role of Macao between China and the world
Peking University and and Eastern State University of Political Science and the Law of Shanghai, November 2010, seminars on the codification of law in the West and in China
University of Malta, june 2010, First conference of the Maltese Association of Comparative Law; paper: The Mediterranean Identity of the Legal Aversion to Usury
International cofnerence on international arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce of Cuba, La Habana, june 2010. Paper: A Regional Lex Mercatoria for the Caribbean?
Queen’s University of Belfast, Second conference of the Irish Society of Comparative Law, February 2010. paper: The Aesthetic Dimension of Law
University of Macau, November 2009, Jean Monnet seminar: The Idea of Sovereignty in the European Legal Environment.
University of Irkutsk, Russian federation, October 2009, XII Colloquium of Center-Eastern European and Asian Roman Lawyers; paper: The Roman Law tradition and modern transnational business law
University of Xiangtan, the People’s Republic of China, October 2009, internazonal conference on Chinese and African Law. Paper: Eclectic legal reforms and the Challenges of Reality: Eritrean Family Law.
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, lausanne, September 2009, First conference of the Juris Diversitas research association on legal hybridity and diffusion; paper: Chinese Law: a new Hybrid?
University of Vienna, june 2009, 4th international conference of the European Chinese Law Studies Association. paper: Socialist Market Laws: Insurance
Bocconi University, Milan, May 2009, conference on “the identity of the jurist”. paper: La ‘lex mercatoria’ e I Principi UNIDROIT sui contratti comemrciali internazionali (lex mercatoria and UNIDROIT Principles)
International Islamic University of Kuala Lumpur, May 2009, 7th conference of the Asian Law Institute, on Legal Pluralism in Asia . Paper: World Laws v. Global Law - Legal Models for the world Economy
International University College di Torino, April and May 2009. Seminar: World Laws v. Global Law.
University of Limerick, inaugural conference of the Irish Society of Comparative Law, February 2009. paper: Rule of What? Rule of Law and the Others
University of Limerick, February 2009. Seminari: World Laws v. Global Law.
University of Macau, November 2008, Jean Monnet seminar: Interpreting the EU Law: the (re)Birth of a European Tradition.
University of Xiangtan, China, November 2008; Seminar: a Non-Western Approach to Law and ADR as a resource for Sino-African Commercial Relations.
FideS International Center, Ho Chi Minh, November 2008; seminar on international arbitration for local lawyers and businessmen
University of Bologna, 3rd international conference of the European Chinese Law Studies Association, October 2008.
paper: The Legal framework of the Socialist Market Economy.
February 2008: lectures on arbitration in a training course for lawyers of the Bar Association of Caltanissetta (Italy)
November 2007: Macao (China), international conference of the Club Ohada-Chine. paper: a Non-Western Approach to Law and ADR as a resource for Sino-African Commercial Relations.
September 2007: Macao (Cina), world conference of the Federation of International Studies on Latin America and the Caribbean, paper: Non-western legal models for the XXI century.
June 2007: Edinburgh, the 2nd international conference of the World Society of Mixed Jurisdictions’ Jurists. Paper: How mixed must a mixed system be?
July 2006: participation to the XVII congress of the International Academy of Comparative Lawyer, as a Rapporteur for Macao. Topic: Precedent and the Law
April 2006: lectures on international arbitration in a continuing education course organised by an association of lawyers in Rome
October 2005: Beijing, international conference of the International Academy of Legal Science; paper: Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics
The Matteo Ricci Institute of Macao, November 2004, international conference on “Culture, Law and Order: Chinese and Western traditions”; paper: The Rule of Law and The Role of Law in the Chinese Context
University of Macau, September 2004, The Shari’ah Legal Order and and Islamic Banking and Finance
University of Haifa, Israel, May 2004, international conference for the 200 years of the Code Napoléon. Paper: Codifications in the Western Legal Tradition
University of Trento, May 2003, seminar for PhD students: Globalizzazione, antagonismo e resistenza nei sistemi giuridici dell’America Latina, within the PhD program of the University di Trento
--- numerose partecipazioni ad eventi seminariali e conferenze quale discussant o quale moderatore/Chairman
Pubblicazioni
Books
Books authored
- Pluralismo giuridico nell’arcipelago malese, Naples, ESI, 2024 (on legal pluralism in the Malay archipelago)
2. European Security in a Post-Brexit World (together with S. Paladini), Emerald, 2019
3. Rule of Law and Legal Complexity in the People’s Republic of China, 103 Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche, Trento, 2012 (a research on the Chinese concept of ‘the rule of law’ and related issues)
4. Sistema Jurídico Latinoamericano. Una verifica, Torino, Giappichelli, 2011 (a research on sources of law in Latin America)
5. Le grandi tradizioni giuridiche dell’Asia, Trento, 2009 (a little handbook on Asian Legal Traditions for students at the University of Trento)
Books and journal issues edited:
6. Opinio Juris in Comparatione, Special issue of the journal no. 1/2023: conference proceedings of the 2021 Juris Diversitas International Cofnerence The Dark Side of the Law
7. Gnosis - Rivista Italiana di Intelligence, institutional journal of the Italian Government department on Information and Security, monographic issue no. 2 of 2020 on: Law and Geopolitics
8. Saggi di diritto economico e commerciale cinese (Essays on Chinese Economic and Commercial Law), with an authored introductory essay, Trento, 2019
9. A. Martelli, I. Castellucci (eds.), Kraino: essere voce e non eco – proceedings of the 2017-2018 trans-disciplinary seminar of the University di Teramo on communications, soft skills and innovative teaching, Roma, Aracne, 2019
10. The Globalisation and Macau: The External Role of Macau as a Platform between Asia-Pacific and Latin America, Macao, Macau Foundation, 2018
Chapters in books and main essays:
- Geolaw, in Global Jurist, 2024 – forthcoming
- Una historia del nombre en derecho argentino, in S. Lanni e D.F. Esborraz (a cura di), Diez años de la aprobación del Código Civil y Comercial Argentino, collana Roma e America. Sistema giuridico latinoamericano. Studi, Naples, ESI, 2024
- The Dark Side of Space Law, in S. Zolea (ed.), Proceedings of the International conference of 9-10 February 2024 on Space law, Università Roma Tre, RomaTre Press, 2024, 117-131
- Chapter: Korea, in M. Mazza (ed.) Diritti del Lontano Oriente, Trattato di Diritto Pubblico Comparato directed by G.F. Ferrari Spanish edition, Editorial Juridica Venezolana, 2023, 327-432 (sections 3.2.7. and 3.2.8. authored by Andrea Serafino; sections 3.2.2. and 3.2.3. co-authored with Andrea Serafino)
- Italian edition: Padua, Cedam Wolters Kluwer, 2019 , 12-15 and 297-408
- English edition, Eleven International, The Hague, 2019
- Sovereign States, Private Actors, and (National) Space Laws. A Rapidly Evolving Landscape (con S. Paladini), in C. Cockell (a cura di), The Institutions of Extraterrestrial Liberty, Oxford University Press, 2022, 366-383
- Commentary to Articles 815 and 816, on Insurance contracts, in A. Borroni (ed.), Commentario al codice civile georgiano (Commentary on the Georgian Civil Code) Tbilisi, 2022, 274-294
- L’organizzazione e il funzionamento della giustizia in Cina (organisation and functioning of justice in China), In C. Tugnoli e M. Cozzio (eds.), Teorie e pratiche della giustizia, Trento, 2022, 295 - 314
- Public Governance of the Blockchain Revolution and Its Implications for Social Finance: A Comparative Analysis (con S. Paladini e E. Yerushalmi), in T.Walker, J. McGaughey, S. Goubran, N. Wagdy (a cura di), Innovations in Social Finance, Springer – Palgrave MacMillan, 2021, 293-318
- China and Hong Kong: One Country, One Security System , in Mondo Cinese – n. 167, summer 2020
- Geodiritto (Geo-law), in Gnosis, 2020, no. 2, 20-33
- Piccolo cronoideario geogiuridico (a compact geo-legal chrono-ideary), in Gnosis, 2020, no. 2, 180-189
- Chapter: Corea (North and South), in R. Cavalieri (ed.), Diritto dell’Asia Orientale, Venice, 2019, 131-178
- Oriente e Occidente – Per una geostoria del diritto italiano, in Italy on the Rimland (East and West: a Geo-history of Italian Law), in V. Ilari (ed.), Quaderni della S.I.S.M., 2019, I, 535 - 546
- Homo oeconomicus sinicus, in I.Castellucci (ed.), Saggi di diritto economico e commerciale cinese, 39 Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche dell’Università di Trento, Napoli, Editoriale Scientifica, 2019, 5 - 32
- Ancora su ordinamenti e sistema, in Atti della Summer School 2018 dell’Università di Brescia, Torino, 2019, 49
- Ius Romanum, Sistema jurídico latinoamericano, ordenamientos, in Roma e America, 39 (2018), 323-340
- Pressioni esterne sull’evoluzione recente della r.c.a. tedesca (external pressures on the German system of law of traffic tort liability), in L. Ammannati, P. Corrias, F. Sartori, A. Sciarrone Alibrandi (a cura di) I giudici e l’economia, Torino, Giappichelli, 2018, 261
- Castellucci, The Many Roles for Macau within China: Macau’s Legal Environment, in I. Castellucci (a cura di), The Globalisation and Macau: The External Role of Macau as a Platform between Asia-Pacific and Latin America– Part III: Law, Macao, Fondazione Macao, 2017
- Researching and Teaching (Comparative) Law in Africa, proceedings of the First International Workshop of the Research Centre for Comparative Law in Africa; Claremont, Juta, 2015, 63-74, 9-781485-107453
- Identità latinoamericana e ruolo degli Abogados secondo Hanns-Abert Steger, in Roma e America, 36 (2015), 25
- Il Giurista, cuore del sistema nella tradizione romanista latinoamericana, in Roma e America, 36 (2015), 239 (the jurist as the core of Latin American Romanist legal tradition)
- L’idea di Rule of Law nella Repubblica Popolare Cinese, in R. Cavalieri (ed.), Diritti, cittadini e potere in Cina, 12 Sulla via del Catai, Centro Martini Martini, Trento, 2015 (the idea of rule of law in the PRC)
- The Ancient Euro-Mediterranean Radication of the Aversion for Usury, in M.Y. Mattar, V.V. Palmer, A. Koppel (eds.), Mixed Legal Systems: East And West, Ashgate Juris Diversitas Series, 2015, 255
- Il diritto italiano nelle micro-giurisdizioni: San Marino, Città del Vaticano, Malta; in Annuario di Diritto Comp., 2014, 693 (Italian Law in Micro-Jurisdictions: San Marino, the Vatican City, Malta)
- L’influenza della tradizione giuridica italiana nel diritto portoghese, in Annuario di Diritto Comparato, 2014, 585, together with João Nuno Calvão da Silva (The Influence of the Italian Legal tradition in Portuguese Law)
- Comparative Law in Asia, in Tong Io Cheng – S. Mancuso (eds.) New Frontiers of Comparative Law, Lexis-Nexis, 2013, 73-88.
- How mixed must a mixed system be? In Tong Io Cheng – S. Mancuso (eds.) New Frontiers of Comparative Law, Hong Kong-Singapore-Malaysia, Lexis-Nexis, 2013, 173-191
- - anche in Boletím da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Macau, 30 (2010);
- - anche in 12.1 Electronic Journal of Comparative Law 2008 (May 2008); online: http://www.ejcl.org/121/art121-4.pdf;
- Classificando i sistemi giuridici africani, in Annuario di Diritto Comparato, 2013, 261-303 (with Marco Guadagni) (on Classifying African Law)
- Legal Hybridity in Hong Kong and Macau, in McGill Law Journal (2012) 57: 4, 1, 665-720
- Aspetti giuridici comuni e/o di interesse per i paesi BRICS nell’ambito del commercio internazionale, proceedings of the Seminar of 7-8 September 2011 on “the Legal Dymension of BRICS”, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, 2012 (Common and/or Interesting Legal Aspects for BRICS Countries in the Domain of International Business Law)
- One Country, Two Systems, in Mondo Cinese, n.147, December 2011, 77
- Il diritto nel mondo dei molti imperi, in Eurasia, 3/2011, 103 (Law in a Multi-Imperial World)
- Reflections on the Legal features of the Socialist Market Economy, in Frontiers of Law in China, 3/2011, 343-368
- World Laws vs. Global Law: legal Models for the World economy – A non-Western Approach to Law and ADR as a Resource for South-South, South-East business Relations, in Bocconi Legal Papers, 2011 – 01; online: www.bocconilegalpapers.org
- Chinese Law: a new Hybrid?, in E. Cashin Ritaine, S.P. Donalan, M.Sychold (eds.), Comparative Law and Hybrid Legal Traditions, 67 Publications of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (2010), 75
- Una Lex Mercatoria Regional para el Caribe, en Actas del Congreso Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Arbitraje Comercial Internacional, La Habana, 24-26 Junio de 2010; online: https://www.ohadac.com/bibliographie/26/una-lex-mercatoria-regional-para-el-caribe.html
- Eclectic Legal Reforms in Africa and the Challenges of Reality: the Case of Eritrean Family Law, in C.C. Nweze (ed.), Contemporary Issues of International and Comparative Law: Essays in Honour of Christian Nwachukwu Okeke, Lake Mary FL, 2009, 599
- La tradizione del diritto romano e il moderno diritto transnazionale degli affari, proceedings of the XII Colloquium of Central-Eastern European and Asian Roman Lawyers, Irkutsk, 2009 (Roman Law and Modern Transnational Business Law)
- Law v. Statute, Ius v. Lex: an Analysis of a Critical Relation in Roman and Civil Law (2008), Global Jurist, 8, Issue 1 (Advances), article n.5; online: http://www.bepress.com/gj/vol8/iss1/art5
- National Report on the Macau Special Administratyive Region of the People’s Republic of China, to the XVII conference of the International Academy of Comparative Law (Utrecht, 2006), in E.Hondius (ed.), Precedent and the Law, Brussels, 2007, 349;
- also in Cadernos de Ciência Jurídica, Macau, 2008, 149
- Rule of Law with Chinese Characteristics, in Annual Survey of International and Comparative Law 13 (2007), 35.
- The Rule of Law and the Role of Law in the Chinese Context, in Culture, law and Order; Chinese and Western Traditions, Matteo Ricci Institute Studies 4, Macau, 2007, 91.
- Ambiente, sicurezza e difesa, in Quaderni della Rivista Giuridica dell’Ambiente, 18 (2006), 475 ss.
- Codifications in the Western Legal Tradition,
- also in Cinese: Na Po Lun FaDian Han Er Bai Nian Lai De FaDian Bian Zuan -- Both in Boletím da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Macau, 17 (2004);
- also in: Tong Io Cheng – S. Mancuso (eds.) New Frontiers of Comparative Law, Lexis-Nexis, 2013, 155-171
- Il Diritto e la Legge: studio comparativo di una relazione critica tra le fonti (Law and Statute: a comparative study of a critical relation between legal sources)
- also in Cinese: Fa Lu Yu Fa: LuoMa Fa Yu DaLu Fa Zhong Yao GuanXi De Fen Xi. -- Both in Boletím da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Macau, 16 (2003).
- La tutela dell’ambiente nell’ordinamento giuridico della Repubblica Popolare Cinese: un case study sul funzionamento del sistema, in Rivista Giuridica dell’Ambiente (on Chinese environmental law), 2003, 1, 59 ss.
- Convergence between the civil law and common law models of legal system,
- also in Chinese: MinFa Fa Xi He PuTong Fa Xi De FaLu Zhi Du Mo Shi De QuXiang -- both in Boletím da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Macau, 14 (2003)
- Il nuovo diritto dell’Eritrea: il diritto di famiglia (Eritrean family law), in L. Favali, E. Grande, M.Guadagni (eds.), New Laws for New States, Turin, 1998.
- La consuetudine nel diritto romano-giustinianeo e nel diritto argentino: natura e forza normativa (customary law in Justinean Roman Law and in Argentine Law: nature and binding force), nel Cardozo Law Bulletin dell’Università di Trento (www.jus.unitn.it), 1996, 2.
- Short articles, Introductions, Reviews, Other writings
- Introduction to the Special issue of Opinio Juris in Comparatione (“A-tier” journal), 1/2023, with the proceedings of the Juris Diversitas International Conference of 2021 - The Dark Side of the Law, pp. 124 ss.
- (together with F. Coppola) Il sistema sanzionatorio decentrati del DSA: dinamica dell'apparato istituzionale (artt. 49, 50, 55, 61-63 - Capo IV, Sezioni I, II e III , in L'impatto del Digital Services Act (DSA) sulla legislazione italiana – special issue edited by Tassone, in Diritto di Internet, 2023, 1, pp. 49 ss. (a commentary on the EU Digital Services Act of 2023)
- Introductory chapter, section El derecho público de los países del sureste asiático entre complejidad y pluralismo, in M. Mazza (ed.) Los Sistemas Constitucionales del Lejano Oriente, in Tratado de Derecho Publico Comparado cordinated and directed by G.F. Ferrari, Editorial Jurídica Venezolana, Caracas, 2023, 29-35
- Italian edition, Padova, Cedam Wolters Kluwer, 2019, 12-15
- English edition, The Hague, Eleven International, 2019, 12-14
- Analisi e sintesi, in Gnosis – Rivista Italiana di Intelligence del D.I.S. della Presidenza del Consiglio, 1/2021,
- Le Potenze alla guerra del diritto, in Limes, 2020, no. 5 (June 2020), 207-212
- Forma e sostanza, in A. Martelli, I. Castellucci (a cura di), Kraino: essere voce e non eco, Roma, Aracne, 2019
- Review to: P Butler e C Morris (eds), Small states in a legal world, Springer, 2017; in 2018 Small States & Territories, 1, 1, 13.
- Intelligence and European security in the aftermath of Brexit: an Italian perspective, (con S. Paladini) in 2017 Journal of Intelligence History, DOI: 10.1080/16161262.2017.1333688
- Review to: John W. Head, Great legal Traditions, North Carolina University Press, 2011, in: Frontiers of Law in China, 4/2012
- La tutela dell’ambiente nell’ordinamento giuridico di Macao e di Hong Kong (Protection of Environment in the Legal Systems of Macao and Hong Kong), in Rivista Giuridica dell’Ambiente, 2004, 2,
- I due memorandum of understanding per la salvaguardia delle tartarughe marine della costa atlantica dell’Africa e dell’Oceano Indiano e sud-est asiatico, in Rivista Giuridica dell’Ambiente, XVI (2001), 5, 729
- Procedimento per estradizione ed indagine difensiva (extradition proceedings and defence counsel investigations in favour of the accused), in Detective and Crime, n. 9-10/1996.
- Principi Unidroit e il Progetto Lando (Unidroit Principles and Lando Project), short article and book review, in Rivista Critica del Diritto Privato, 1995.
Prodotti della ricerca
Publicly funded research projects & grants
2023: Grant received by the Italian MInistry of University as Principal Investigator in a National Interest Research Project (PRIN PNRR) on: "Energy Commons", leading a research group of 12 scholars from the Universities of Teramo, Campobasso, Palermo, Catania – overall research grant: €. 225.000.
Grants received by the Italian MInistry of University, for no. 2 PhD proposals of Academic-Industrial PhD research projects, in 2020 (on Blockchain technology, logistics and food supply chiains) and 2023 (on OSINT in the digital space)
Since 2023, Foreign Expert in The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology funded Foreign Expert Project: 中国科技部外专项目“全球地缘政治转型：中国与‘新’国际法” - “Global Geopolitical Transformation, China, and ‘New’ International Law” – University od Lanzhou, P.R.C. – grant no. DL2023175001L, budget: CNY 480,000 (circa €. 60.000,00)
2020-2023 University of Malta, Deptartments of Civil Law, European Law, and IT
"Systematising Smart Contracts within Classical Contract Law Theory", gov. Malta, €. 48.000
Leading a research unit from the University di Teramo, with a view to developing a questionnaire, as a base for a book project:
- Smart Contracts, proposed at the European research project Common Core of European Private Law, by David Zammit, Kurt Xerri, Ignazio Castellucci, Tobias Pinkel; book project approved by the Board of the Common Core, and now developing the pool of national Rapporteurs.
Minor research grants obtained in the University of Teramo in 2017 (€. 3.000) and 2019 (e. 1.500)
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