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 Edwin 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 United States 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).

GRACE D'ALO
Grace D'Alo is managing attorney of, MidPenn Legal Services and an adjunct professor law, Penn State Dickinson School of Law.

MALGOSIA FITZMAURICE
LL.M. University of Warsaw
Ph.D. University of Warsaw
Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice holds a chair of public international law at Queen Mary, University of London. She specializes in the law of treaties and international environmental law, and she publishes widely in both areas. In 2001 she delivered The Hague Academy of International Law lectures on international protection of the environment. She was a Scholar in Residence at Washington and Lee University School of Law in 2003.

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.

KATARINA HALLDEN
B.A. University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies
LLB University of London, Queen Mary
LL.M. University of Lund/Raoul Wallenbert Institute

CHRISTINE H. KELLETT
B.A. University of New Mexico
J.D. The Dickinson School of Law
Christine H. Kellett is a professor of law at Penn State Dickinson and a specialist in constitutional law. She is the founding director of Penn State's Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Center.

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 PLACE
Thomas Place is a professor of law at Penn State Dickinson School of Law.

ROBERT E. RAINS
B.A. Michigan State University
J.D. Harvard Law School
Robert E. Rains is a professor of law at Penn State Dickinson where he supervises the Disability and Family Law clinics and teaches Family Law, Education Law, and Juvenile Law courses and the Law and Individuals with Disabilities Seminar. Professor Rains is a member of the International Society of Family Law and has lectured on family law issues in England, Ireland, Italy, Austria, France, and Australia. He regularly appears as co-counsel for amici curiae before the U.S. Supreme Court and is a prolific writer and contributor to academic and professional journals.

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.

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.
BA Honours in Jurisprudence Somerville College, Oxford
LL.M. in International Law 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

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

Nicoló Trocker is a professor at the University of Florence School of Law, a member of the University of Florence Institute of Comparative Law, and a visiting professor at the University of Miami. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of California in Berkeley and Penn State Dickinson.
Dott. di Giur. University of Florence