Mauro Bussani (born December 14, 1959, in
Trieste
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, Italy, to Jolanda Evangelisti, a seamstress, and Nereo, an Italian Red Cross employee and unionist) is Professor of Comparative Law at the University of
Trieste
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Law School, Italy, and Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of
Macao
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, Special Autonomous Region of the
People’s Republic of China
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. In 2019 he was awarded a Ph.D. honoris causa by the Faculty of Law at the University of Fribourg, in
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
. Mauro Bussani is considered an outstanding expert of comparative law, and his work has been broadly recognized worldwide. His research focuses, among other themes, on the comparative law of contracts, torts, and security interests, on European private law and legal harmonization, on law and development, human rights and the law of globalization(s).
Legal career
Mauro Bussani received his J.D. from the University of
Trieste
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Law School (summa cum laude). He lectured in the same University from 1982 to 1986, and was granted a tenured position as Assistant Professor at the University of
Trento
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Law School in 1986. He became Associate Professor in 1998, Full Professor in 1999, and joined the Faculty of the University of
Trieste
Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provi ...
Law School in 2000.
During his career, Mauro Bussani has delivered lectures in some of the most prominent academic institutions and universities in the world, and joined many high-ranking universities as Visiting professor. He is a member of the scientific councils of many internationally renowned law journals, and is a member of many learned societies and research institutes around the globe.
Scholarship
Bussani’s scholarship has had a global reach and impact.
His work on the notion and meaning of fault has proved extremely influential in
continental Europe
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and
Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
, while his researchers (conducted with Vernon Valentine Palmer, Tulane U., La.) on the compensation for pure economic loss(es) have revolutionized the subject – and one of them has been translated in
Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of va ...
by Law China Press.
Equally ground-breaking has been his contribution to the comparative law of security interests and to the comparative law of contract, as it is demonstrated by the fact that Bussani was invited twice to participate in European-wide projects financed by the European Commission for the harmonization of contract law.
With
Ugo Mattei
Ugo Mattei (born 1961 in Turin, Piedmont) is the Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in San Francisco, California, and a full professor of civil law in ...
(UC
Hastings
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east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...
, Ca., and
Turin
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U., Italy), Bussani developed an innovative comparative law methodology, mixing Rudolf B. Schlesinger’s and Rodolfo Sacco’s revolutionary findings on comparative legal studies. This new methodology is embodied i
‘The Common Core of European Private Law Project’ a project which aims to unearth, through an approach based on factual questionnaires, what is common and what is divergent between European private laws. A network of more than three hundreds European and non-European scholars participates in the project, and the latter’s results are collected in volumes published by
Cambridge University Press
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A university press is an academic publishing hou ...
in a peer-reviewe
seriesnamed after the title of the project itself, under the direction of Bussani and
Mattei.
In recent years, Bussani successfully turned his mastery of comparative law methods on more public-attuned themes, starting pioneering investigations on international financial law, the comparative law of human rights, and legal globalization(s).
[Il diritto dell’Occidente. Geopolitica delle regole globali, Einaudi, 2010; Credit Rating Agencies' Accountability: Short Notes on a Global Issue, Global Jurist, vol. 10, Iss. 1 (Advances), Art. 1 (2010) (an updated version (August 27, 2011) is available on ssrn ink a papers.ssrn.com/1515285) Geopolitics of Legal Reforms and the Role of Comparative Law, in M. Bussani and L. Heckendorn Urscheler (eds.), Comparisons in Legal Development. The Impact of Foreign and International Law on National Legal Systems, Schulthess, 2016, 235-248.]
Major publications
Mauro Bussani has published more than twenty books and authored or co-authored more than one-hundred forty publications in
Italian
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* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
,
English
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* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
, and
French
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* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
, some of which were translated in
Portuguese
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* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
** Portu ...
,
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...
,
Serbian,
Turkish
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*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
*** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey
*** Turkish communities and mi ...
,
Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of va ...
,
Japanese
Japanese may refer to:
* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
, and
Korean
Korean may refer to:
People and culture
* Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula
* Korean cuisine
* Korean culture
* Korean language
**Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl
**Korean dialects and the Jeju language
** ...
. Many of his essays are freely accessible at his author’s pages on th
Social Science Research Networkan
Bepress Legal Repositorywebsites.
The following is a selection of Prof. Bussani's books.
* Responsabilidad Civil y Garantías Reales. Estudios de Derecho Comparado (with M. Infantino), Ediciones Olejnik, 2016
* Comparisons in Legal Development. The Impact of Foreign and International Law on National Legal Systems (ed., with L. Heckendorn Urscheler), Schulthess, 2016
* Comparative Tort Law. Global Perspectives (ed., with A.J. Sebok), Edward Elgar, 2015
* European Private Law. A Handbook (ed., with F. Werro), Staempfli-Bruylant-Carolina Ac. Press-Ant. N. Sakkoulas-Sellier, 2009, vol I, and 2014, vol II
* Il diritto italiano in Europa (1861-2014) (cur.), Annuario di diritto comparato e di studi legislativi, vol. V, E.S.I., 2014
* Cambridge Companion to Comparative Law (ed., with U. Mattei), CUP, 2012
* Il diritto dell'Occidente. Geopolitica delle regole globali, Einaudi, 2010
* Pure Economic Loss: New Horizons in Comparative Law (ed., with V.V. Palmer), Routledge-Cavendish, 2008
* European Tort Law. Eastern and Western Perspectives (ed.), Staempfli, 2007
* Pure Economic Loss in Europe (ed., with V.V. Palmer), CUP, 2003 – Chinese version by Law Press China, 2005
* As peculiaridades da noção de culpa: um estudo de direito comparado, Livraria do Advogado, 2000
* Diritto, giustizia ed interpretazione (ed., with J. Derrida and G. Vattimo), Laterza, 1998
* Proprietà-garanzia e contratto. Formule e regole nel leasing finanziario, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche, 1995
* La colpa soggettiva. Modelli di valutazione della condotta nella responsabilità extracontrattuale, Cedam, 1991
* I contratti nuovi. Leasing, Factoring, Franchising (with P. Cendon), Giuffrè, 1989
References
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University of Trieste faculty
1959 births
Living people
University of Macau faculty
20th-century Italian lawyers
21st-century Italian lawyers