Elisabetta Silvestri is Associate Professor of Italian Civil Procedure, Comparative Civil Procedure, and Arbitration, Mediation and Assisted Negotiation at the Department of Law, University of Pavia, Italy. At the same Department she is also Scientific Director of the postgraduate programs for the training of mediators and ADR professionals accredited by the Ministry of Justice. She has acted as Professor of Advanced Legal English at the Department of Law, University of Pavia and as Professor of Judicial Organization at the Faculty of Law, University of Trieste. Elisabetta Silvestri received her legal education at the (then) Faculty of Law, University of Pavia, where she earned her LL.B., and at Cornell Law School, Ithaca, United States, where she obtained her LL.M. She was also visiting Scholar at Yale Law School (New Haven, United States) and London School of Economics. She has been lecturing in many Italian and foreign University on a wide variety of subjects in the field of civil procedure and related matters, such as evidence, judicial organization, collective redress, and ADR. She has acted as National Reporter and invited speaker at conferences and congresses in Italy, as well as in various countries of the world. Since 2010 she is co-director of the annual seminar ‘Public and Private Justice’, organized by professors Alan Uzelac and Remco van Rhee and taking place in Dubrovnik, at the Inter-University Centre (IUC). She is Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Procedural Law and a member of the Editorial Boards of the Russian law journal Herald of the Civil Process and the Ukrainian law journal Access to Justice in Eastern Europe. Elisabetta Silvestri is a member of the working group on the subject ‘Duties and Obligations of the parties and their lawyers’ within the framework of the project ‘From Transnational Principles to EU Rules of Civil Procedure’ supported by the European Law Institute (ELI) and UNIDROIT (since 2014). She is also a member of the advisory board of the scientific project ‘Building EU Civil Justice (ERC-Consolidator Grant no. 726032) directed by professor Xandra Kramer of Erasmus University (Rotterdam, the Netherlands).
LOCAL RESEARCHERS - ITALY
Federico Alessandro Goria is an Associate Professor of legal history at the Università del Piemonte Orientale (University of Eastern Piedmont), Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza e Scienze politiche, economiche e sociali (Department of Law and Political, Economic and Social Sciences). He teaches courses in the curriculum of the Master of Law, focusing in particular on the history of trade law and family law. He recently studied the history of legal aid in Italy and, in particular, the model of advocacy for the poor implemented in the Duchy of Savoy (later the Kingdom of Sardinia) from the XVth to the XIXth century. The “avvocatura dei poveri” combined the liberal assistance pro bono with a salaried staff model, provided by the supreme courts of the State with lawyers at the first step of their judiciary career. The results of this research were published in the book “L’Avvocatura dei poveri. Vicende del modello pubblico dal Piemonte all’Italia” Bologna, Il Mulino, 2017.
Livia Giuliani is Professor of Law at Università degli Studi di Pavia (Italy), Department of Jurisprudence. She is also Criminal Procedure Researcher at University of Trieste (Italy).