VISITING PROFESSORS

Gianformaggio Chair

The Department has established a Chair, dedicated to the late Professor of Philosophy of Law, Letizia Gianformaggio. Visiting professors affiliated to foreign Universities are invited to teach for one semester at the University of Ferrara.

Experts in different areas of law will thus enrich the Department’s list of courses, giving students the opportunity to get in touch with legal cultures of other countries.

In 2023-24 the Letizia Gianformaggio Chair will be endowed to Professor  Mariolina Eliantonio ( Maastricht University) for a course on "Regulatory structures in EU governance: challenges and opportunities" and Doctor Tzehainesh Teklè for a course on " International labour law".

Former Chairs include:

academic year 2022/2023

Professor Karine Bannelier-Christakis (Université Grenoble Alpes - Francia) - International Law, Cybercrime and Cybersecurity"

Professor Francisco Javier Ansuategui Roig (Università “Carlos III” di Madrid) - Elementos de una teoría de los derechos fundamentales

academic year 2021/2022

Professor Yoseph Edrey (University of Haifa) - The Constitutional Aspects of Fiscal Legislation

Professor Dolores Morondo Taramundi (University of Deusto - Bilbao) - Where vulnerability meets exploitation: legal responses to human trafficking

academic year 2020/2021

Professor Manuel Cancio Melia (Univ. Autonoma de Madrid) - Organised Crime and Terrorism: Social Phenomenon and Legal Response

academic year 2019/2020

Dr Ambra Migliore (ILO, Project Officer) and Dr Gianni Rosas (ILO, Office Director for Italy and San Marino) - International Labour Law.

academic year 2018/2019

Professor Michael Blakeney (Winthrop Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Western Australia)

Professor Julian Roberts (Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Law and Worcester College, University of Oxford)

academic year 2017/2018

Professor Jean-Silvestre Bergé (Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University)

Professor Holger Hestermeyer (King's College London)

academic year 2016/2017

Professor Michael Lehmann (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich)

Professor Makane Moïse Mbengue (University of Geneva)

academic year 2015/2016

Professor Florian Jeßberger (University of Hamburg)

Professor Mauricio Troncoso Reigada (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

academic year 2014/2015

Professor Martin Gebauer (University of Tübingen)

Seminars

Every academic year the list of courses in a foreign language is also complemented by shorter seminars, also taught by Visiting Professors, guests of the Department. Each seminar lasts 25 hours and grants the acquisition of 3 ECTS.

Academic year 2023-2024:

• Professor Michael Veder (Radboud Universiteit) - Insolvency and Restructuring: the EU perspective
• Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice (Queen Mary – University of London) - International Environmental Law
• Professor Tomàs Font I Llovet (Universitat de Barcelona) - Local Authorities between Federal and Regional States
• Professor Raphael Dalmasso (Unversitè de Lorraine) - Restructuring tools in comparative and European labour law

Academic year 2022-2023:

• Professor Michael Blakeney (University of Western Australia) - International Intellectual Property Law

• Professor Lyne Latulippe (Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada) - International Taxation Issues: A Look at Tax Cooperation and Competition Through Canadian Lens
• Professor Carmela Pérez Bernàrdez  (Universidad de Granada) - EUs External Action and the Rule of Law: Counterterrorism and other restrictive measures
• Professor Luis Miguel Hinojosa Martínez (Universidad de Granada) - EUs External Action and the Rule of Law: Counterterrorism and other restrictive measures (part 2)
• Professor Tzehainesh Teklè (Former Senior Official of the International Labour Organization, ILO) - International Labour Law

• Prof. Pedro Antonio García Lopez (Universidad de Granada) - Estadística por la criminología

Academic year 2021-2022:

• Professor Andreas Schloenhardt (University of Queensland, Honarary Professor of Foreign and International Law, University of Vienna) - Transnational Organized Crime

• Professor Samuel Fulli-Lemaire (University of Strasbourge) - European Private International Law in Contract and Tort

• Prof. Pedro Antonio García Lopez (Universidad de Granada) - Estadística por la criminología

Academic year 2020-2021:

• Professor Yadh Ben Achour (UN Human Rights Committee) - La question islamique et le Comité des droits de l'homme [The Islamic Question and the Human Rights Committee]. The course will be  in French. Translation in English will be provided.

• Professor Michael Blakeney (Winthrop Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Western Australia) - Intellectual Property Infringement and Organized Crime

• Dr Ambra Migliore (ILO, Project Officer) and Dr Gianni Rosas (ILO, Office Director for Italy and San Marino) - International Labour Law [3 + 3 ECTS]

Macrocrimes - Centre for European Legal Studies on Macro-Crime

Macrocrimes was established at the Department of Law of the University of Ferrara in November 2018, within the framework of a project leading to its acknowledgment as one of the best Departments in Italy in terms of research quality (“Dipartimenti di eccellenza”).

The Centre for European Legal Studies on Macro-Crime focuses on the legal aspects relating to the fight against “macro-crime”, a notion ranging from core crimes – such as war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and aggression – to crimes entailing grave breaches of fundamental rights, crimes linked to immigration and organized, mafia-type, terrorist and transnational crime, from economic crime to environmental and food crime.

For further information, please visit the website or send an email to macrocrimes@unife.it

Opportunities for visiting researchers

Please see here for the opportunities for visiting researchers.