Faculty

European scholars and practitioners collaborate with Penn State Dickinson faculty to offer participants in the Florence • Rome • Siena program fully accredited courses in Comparative Constitutional Law, Comparative Law, Comparative and International Family Law, International Environmental Law, and The International Sale of Goods — The CISG In Comparative Perspective.

LOUIS F. DEL DUCA
A.B., Temple University
J.D., Harvard Law School
Dott. di Giur., University of Rome School of Law
Louis F. Del Duca is the administrator of the Florence Program and Penn State Dickinson's Edward N. Polisher Distinguished Faculty Scholar. Professor Del Duca is a leading proponent of the internationalization of legal education. He is a past president of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law; a member of the U.S. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Trade Law; the editor of the Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal; and corresponding collaborator for the International Institute for Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT).

DANIEL C. K. CHOW
B.A., Yale University
J.D., Yale University
Professor Chow served as a law clerk to the Honorable Constance Baker Motley, Chief Judge, Southern District of New York, following graduation from law school, and then became an associate with Debevoise and Plimpton in New York. He is currently a member of The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law faculty and teaches International Law, International Transactions, Jurisprudence, Asian Law, and Property. Professor Chow was featured on CBS' 60 Minutes II program on January 28, 2004. In "The World's Greatest Fakes," he said "We have never seen a problem of this size and magnitude in world history. There's more counterfeiting going on in China now than we've ever seen anywhere."

GABRIEL GARI
B.A. & LL.B., (Universidad de la República)
LL.M. (L.S.E.), Ph . D (London)
Lecturer Gari teaches Securities Regulation and Law of Finance and Foreign Investment in Emerging Economies at the Queen Mary, University of London. Gabriel has been consultant to the European Commission on a study on barriers to trade in services in developing countries and to the European Parliament on the transposition of Life Assurance Directives in the UK. He has also submitted evidence to the Committee on the inquiry of the ELAS affair and did consulting work for UNDP and UNICEF on judicial reform in Central and South America. He is a member of the Bar of Uruguay and for a period of two years has worked for the Uruguayan Supreme Court of Justice.

ALEJANDRO M. GARRO
J.D., National Univiversity of Laplata School of Law, Argentina
LL.M., Louisiana State University
J.S.D., Columbia University.
Professor Garro is a professor of law at Columbia University and Senior Research Scholar at its Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law. He regularly gives courses and seminars in Comparative Law, International Business Transactions, and Latin American Legal Systems in Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, and Brazil, and has taught at the universities of Fribourg, Strasbourg, Amsterdam, Leiden, and Madrid.

GEOFFREY HAZARD
LL.B., Columbia University
B.A., Swarthmore College
Geoffrey Hazard, is one of the primary authorities in the United States on the subject of legal ethics. His treatise, Civil Procedure, (5th ed. 2001, with Fleming James, Jr. and John Leubsdorf) is a mainstay of American legal education. He continues to write prodigiously and recently served as the co-reporter on the ALI/UNIDROIT Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure which has become a model of civil procedure for international commercial disputes; a treatise; and many articles, particularly on joinder, including class actions, and discovery. In professional ethics, his new book, Legal Ethics: A Comparative Study (with Angelo Dondi) compares ethics in the legal professions of modern industrialized countries. He is also a principal author of a casebook. He often acts as an expert witness in both fields.

FRED H. MILLER
A.B., University of Michigan
J.D., University of Michigan
Fred H. Miller is a professor of law at the University of Oklahoma. He is the immediate past president and executive director of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL). He is a member of the Permanent Editorial Board of the American Law Institute.

THOMAS M. PLACE
B.A., J.D., Marquette University
Thomas M. Place is a professor of law at Penn State Dickinson. An expert in criminal law and procedure, with a scholarly emphasis on post-conviction procedure, Professor Place is the author of a widely used and cited book, Pennsylvania Post Conviction Relief Act – Practice and Procedure. In addition to his teaching and writing, Professor Place is very active in the legal profession, serving on several boards and committees concerned with the provision of legal services to low-income people and families and serving as appointed and pro bono counsel in a variety of cases, including a number of high profile post-conviction proceedings. Professor Place also has a strong interest in the First Amendment, the subject of one of his courses, and, together with Professor Bob Rains, supervises our Family Law Clinic.

ANTHONY J. SCIRICA
B.A., Wesleyan University
J.D., University of Michigan Law School
Chief Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Anthony J. Scirica is the program's Distinguished Guest Jurist. He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Venezuela and chair of the Standing Committee of Rules and Procedure of the U.S. Supreme Court.

NICOLÓ TROCKER
Dott. di Giur., University of Florence
Nicoló Trocker is a professor of law at the University of Florence ( Italy) where he teaches Civil Procedure and Conflict of Laws. He has published various books and numerous articles on these subjects. He received his legal education at the University of Munich ( Germany) and Florence ( Italy), where he earned his J.D. summa cum laude, and a Jean Monet fellowship at the European University Institute. He is a member of the International Association of Procedural Law and the Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Munich, at the Chuo University of Tokyo, at the University of California — Berkeley, at the University College, London, at the University of Nagoya, at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law, and on numerous occasions at the University of Miami, where he teaches Transnational Litigation.

VINCENZO VARANO
Dott. di Giur., University of Florence Law School
Global Professor of Law, New York University Law School
Vincenzo Varano is a professor and former dean at the University of Florence School of Law and a member of its Institute of Comparative Law. Dean Varano has served as a former visiting fellow at Oxford University and a visiting professor at Chicago, Cornell, Brooklyn, Northwestern, and NYU law schools.

ANNA VENEZIANO
Dott. Di Giur., University of Rome Law School
LL.M., Yale University Law School
Anna Veneziano is a professor of law at the University of Teramo School of Law and a member of the Center of Comparative and Foreign Law at the University of Rome Law School.

Lecturers

Vittoria Barsotti Benussi is a professor of law at the University of Florence School of Law and a member of the University of Florence Institute of Comparative Law.
Dott. di Giur., LL.D., University of Florence School of Law

Michael Joachim Bonell is a professor of law at the University of Rome (La Sapienza), a consultant for the International Institute for Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), and director of the Center for Comparative Law Studies in Rome, Italy.
Dott. di Giur., University of Rome School of Law

Sabino Cassese is a member of the Constitutional Court of Italy and a professor of administrative law at the University of Roma-La Sapienza. Previously he was director of the Institute of Public Law at the University of Roma-La Sapienze and also served in the Italian government as minister for public administration. He has frequently been a visitor to law schools and research centers in the United States, United Kingdom, and France.

Marise Cremona is a professor of European Union law at the European University Institute specializing in external relations of the European Union. She is on leave as a professor of European commercial law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London.
B.A., Somerville College, Oxford
LL.M., Darwin College, Cambridge

Giorgio Gaja is a professor of international and European law, a member of the Public Law Institute and former dean of the University of Florence School of Law. He has lectured extensively on international and European community law and served as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School. He is currently a member of the United Nations International Law Commission.
Dott. di Giur., University of Rome School of Law
LL.D., The Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University

Roberto Mastroianni is a professor of law at the University of Naples and a member of the Public Law Institute of the University of Florence School of Law.
Dott. Di Giur., University of Florence School of Law
LL.M., The Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University
LL.D., University of Bologna

Hans Micklitz is currently a professor of law at the European University Institute in Fiesoli, Italy. He has served as a professor of civil law at the University of Bamberg, Germany , and a visiting professor at Oxford and Michigan. He served as the Head of the Institute of European and Consumer Law in Bamberg, Germany from 1994-2007 and Head of the Scientific Committee on Consumer and Nutrition Policy of the Federal Ministry of Nutrition, Agriculture and Consumer Protection.

Michele Papa is the dean of the Faculty of Law and professor of comparative criminal law at the University of Florence School of Law.

Lena Peters is a research officer with the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), former secretary to the Working Group for the Preparation of Principles of International Commercial Contracts, former secretary to the Study Group on Franchising, and former secretary to the Committee of Governmental Experts on Franchising. Currently, she is working on setting up a database on Uniform Law.
J.D., Stockholm University
LL.M., King's College

Ricardo Pisillo is a professor of comparative and European Union law at the University of Siena School of Law.
Dott. di Giur., University of Siena School of Law
LL.M., Harvard Law School

Walter Rodinó is former deputy secretary general of the International Institute for Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) and president of the International Association Friends of UNIDROIT in Rome, Italy.
Dott. di Giur., University of Rome School of Law