UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA – SCHOOL OF LAW
SUMMER SCHOOL 2017
IN EUROPEAN AND COMPARATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Ravenna, July 10-15, 2017
ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA
The origins of the University of Bologna go way back, and it is considered to be the oldest
university in the Western world. Its history is intertwined with that of the great names of
science and literature, it is a keystone and a point of reference for European culture.
THE LAW SCHOOL
Stemming from the recent reform to Italian university structure, the School of Law
combines the dynamism of a modern international institution with the lustre and heritage
of nearly 1000 years’ experience. Bologna Law School stands at the cutting edge of
research, offering its students a complete intellectual, practical and professional education
based on centuries of a supranational outlook. It has activated courses at both the
Bologna and the Ravenna Campus.
Bolog a’s Faculty (now School) of Law has been acknowledged for its excellence by the
authoritative Q“ World University Ra ki g : for 2011-12 it ranks 1st in Italy, high at the
top of continental Europe, 35th in the world, close behind the most illustrious universities
of the English-speaking area.
MAIN TOPICS
THE EUROPEAN AND COMPARATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
SUMMER SCHOOL PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY TO ACHIEVE A
DEEP KNOWLEDGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, IN A
COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, WITH REFERENCE BOTH TO THE
RULES APPLIED AT THE EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL LEVEL AND
TO THE JUDICIAL PRACTICES IN THIS FIELD
ADMISSION QUALIFICATIONS
First cycle degree/Bachelor - 180 ECTS (General policies and regulations D.M. 270) in the
following course classes: L-14 Scienze dei servizi giuridici; L-21 Scienze della pianificazione
territoriale, urbanistica, paesaggistica e ambientale or First cycle degree/Bachelor of the same
subject area, (General policies and regulations DM 509/99 and previous degree programme
system);
Second cycle degree/Two year Master - 120 ECTS (General policies and regulations D.M. 270) in
the following course classes: LM-10 Conservazione dei beni architettonici e ambientali; LM-35
Ingegneria per l'ambiente e il territorio; LM-48 Pianificazione territoriale urbanistica e
ambientale; LM-75 Scienze e tecnologie per l'ambiente e il territorio; LM-76 Scienze economiche
per l'ambiente e la cultura; LMG-01 Giurisprudenza or Second cycle degree/Two year Master of
the same subject area, (General policies and regulations DM 509/99 and previous degree
programme system).
It is also allowed the enrollment of students who attend the first cycle or second cycle of the
degrees mentioned above.
TEACHING
Linguistic skills: good knowledge of the English language
Academic director: Michele Angelo Lupoi
Place of teaching: Ravenna Campus Via Oberdan, 1
Subject areas: Sociology, Economics, Law
Number of participants: Minimum 20 Maximum 50
Duration: one week July 10-15
Credits: 6 ECTS/CFU
THE FACULTY
Michele Angelo Lupoi
is Associate professor of civil procedural law at the Faculty of Law
of the University of Bologna, where he teaches Civil Procedural Law,
Insolvency Law. He has also lectured for several years in
Comparative civil procedure (in English).
Since 2013, he is the Director of the Law Degree Program at the
Ravenna Campus of the School of Law of the University of Bologna
which is particularly dedicated to the topics of Environmental Law and
Environmental protection.
In 1997\98, he has spent seven months at the Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY, USA,
on a grant from the University of Bologna, doing research on matters of
international civil procedure.
He is also a practicing lawyer in Bologna. His main field of interest, research and practice is international civil
procedure, i. e. matters of jurisdiction, lis pendens, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, international
conventions and EU regulations in matters of civil procedure. He has also written extensively in matters of family
(procedural) law, insolvency law, arbitration, trust law, mediation.
Elisa Baroncini
is Associate Professor of International Law at the School of Law of the University of
Bologna. She has also been Visiting Fellow at the Law Department of the
European University Institute in Fiesole, she is Associate Research Fellow at the
Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, and Visiting Professor in EU Trade
Law at the China-EU School of Law in Beijing.
Currently Co-Chair of the ESIL IG on International Economic Law, Elisa holds a
cum laude Bologna Law Degree and a PhD in EU Law, and is counselling as
legal expert the legal service of the Legal Service of the Italian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. She is Associate Editor of the Review China-EU Law Journal, and Section Editor for International Trade
Law on the editorial board of the Brill Open Law (BOL).
She is Member of the Steering Committee of the PhD Course of
the School of Law of the University of Bologna, and member and supervisor various of international research
projects. Her main fields of research include: WTO Law (the TBT Agreement in the WTO dispute settlement system;
the co su ers’ right to i for atio i the WTO syste ; WTO-plus obligations; China in the WTO dispute settlement
system; WTO and climate change issues); the WTO and Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs); transparency in
International Economic Law; and the law of EU external relations (EU/China relations; EU/ China investment
negotiations; the treaty-making power of the European Commission; the European Parliament and international
agreements; the delegations of the European Union).
Robert Klonoff
is the Jordan D. Schnitzer Professor of Law at Lewis and Clark Law School. He served as
Dean of the Law School from 2007-2014. He is the co-author of a leading casebook on class
actions, the author of the West Nutshell on class actions, and the author of numerous law review
articles on the subject.
Professor Klonoff is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and served as an Associate
Reporter for the ALI’s class action project, Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation.
He is also a Fellow in the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and served as a Reporter for
the 2005 National Conference on Appellate Justice. In addition, he is an elected member of the
International Association of Procedural Law. In 2011, Chief Justice Roberts appointed Professor
Klonoff to serve as the academic member of the Federal Civil Rules Committee.
Professor Klonoff was reappointed in May 2014 for a second three-year term. He is also a member
of the Civil Rules Subcommittee on Class Actions.
After graduating from Yale Law School, Professor Klonoff clerked for the
Chief Judge John R. Brown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
He then served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in D.C. and as an Assistant to the Solicitor General. He was also a partner at Jones Day for more than a
decade. He has taught at Georgetown University Law Center, the University of San Diego Law School, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City
School of Law. In addition, he has lectured on class actions at dozens of universities throughout the world. Professor Klonoff has extensive litigation
experience. He has argued eight cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and has argued dozens of cases in other federal and state appellate courts
throughout the country. He has served as counsel in more than 100 class action cases. In addition, he has served as a class action expert in a
number of high-profile cases , including the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation, the National Football League Concussion
litigation, and the Volkswagen Clean Diesel litigation. His pro bono cases have included death penalty, civil rights, and veterans’ rights cases.
Enrico Al Mureden
is Full Professor of Civil Law of
University of Bologna, where he
graduated in 1995. He holds a Ph. D. in
Civil Law at University of Bologna.
He is also a lawyer. He has published
extensively mainly in matters of Family
law, Contract law and Tort law.
He has been a visiting scholar at Canterbury – University of Kent (2000, 2002, 2004)
and participated in several conferences on Medical Liability, Tort Law, Family Law,
Contract law. He has been a lecturer in several academic Courses.
Anna Gorczynska
Ph.D., Assistant Proffesor, is employed in the Chair of the
European Economic Law, Faculty of Law and Administration,
University of Lodz, Poland.
She is the Director of the Centre for Public Procurement
and Public-Private Partnership (www.centrumzp.uni.lodz.pl)
Her main scientific interests and publications refer to
public procurement law, public-private partnership, regional
policy, structure funds of the EU and ICT.
Anna Gorczynska is an experienced university lecturer
(e.g. lectures in English and in Polish on Public Procurement
Law, European Economic Law, European Legal System,
Management of the EU Structure Funds Projects) as well as
trainer on the courses for both contracting authorities and entreprenours. She also regulary participates as a guest
speaker in the international conferences.
She is an author and co-author of varied legal expertises and opinions prepared for Polish Government Legislative
Center, self- government, chambers of commerce and other legal firms.
Mario Neve
is Full Professor of Geography. Currently teaching Cultural Geography, Geography of Historic
Towns and Landscapes, and Geography of Euro- Mediterranean Region at the Department of
Cultural Heritage of University of Bologna – Ravenna Campus. Visiting scholar at the York
University in Toronto and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Programme Director
of the Second cycle degree International Cooperation on Human Rights and Intercultural
Heritage of the School of Political Sciences of the University of Bologna – Ravenna Campus. His
main research’s topics concerns the geographical models of cultural paradigms in historical
perspective (paying special attention to mapping and landscapes’ issues); the geographical
models of complexity (particularly concerning urban networks); communication and
i for atio ’s geographical models, the mapping as cognitive tool.
His main publications include Virtus loci (Urbino, 1999), Itinerari nella geografia contemporanea
(Rome, 2004), Il disegno dell’Europa. Costruzioni cartografiche dell’ide tità europea (Milan,
2016), Europe’s Design. Mapping European Identities through Time (forthcoming by Springer).
Enrico Dinelli
is a Full Professor of Geochemistry at the Ravenna Campus of the University of
Bologna. Since December 2010, he is the Coordinator of the PhD programme in
Environmental Science: Protection and management of natural resources. Since
November 2013, he is Coordinator of the Degree Course in Environmental Sciences
and of the Master Course in Analysis and Management of the Environment. He is an
Associate Editor of the Journal of Geochemical Exploration and a member of the
Advisory board of the Italian Journal of Geosciences (Bollettino della Società
Geologica Italia). He was awarded the SIMP Award for PhD thesis (Società Italiana di
Mineralogia e Petrologia) in 1995 and the Carlo Minguzzi Award for young
researcher in geochemistry, in 1996.
Barbara Verri
holds a doctorate in Comparative and European Legal Studies from the University of
Trento, and she is currently a research fellow at the Department of Legal Study,
University of Bologna. From 2009 to 2012 she was a tutor in Comparative Private
Law and Asian Law at the University of Bologna (Faculty of Law). She is the author
of various articles regarding the environmental law from a comparative perspective,
and she attended as a speaker to several conferences on this topic. She is also a
qualified Italian lawyer.
Pietro Acri graduated with honors in Law at the University of Bologna. He obtained a Ph.d. degree in Public Law at the University of
Bologna. Holder teaching modules in Administrative Law and Environmental
Law in the Law Faculty of the University of Bologna (Bologna and Ravenna Campus). He passed the Bar Exam and he is enrolled in
the Register of Lawyers of Bologna. He is currently working for a primary Italian law firm and provides legal assistance in
administrative law with particular regard to public services and environmental procedures.
Giovanni Barozzi Reggiani is a lawyer and a legal adviser of the Italian Ministry for the Environment. He is contract Professor of
Environmental Law at the University of Bologna and is a former
legal adviser of the Italian Regulatory Authority for Electricity Gas and Water. He holds a PhD in Public Law at the University of
Pavia.
Gian Maria Farnelli, Ph.D., is post-doc fellow in International Law at the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna.
He is a legal adviser for the Italian Government in the MV Norstar (Panama v.
Italy) case (ITLOS Case No. 25). He has published in English and Italian on various topic of international law, with specific regard to
international law of the sea, jurisdictional immunities, environmental law and counter-terrorism.
Paolo Lobba, Ph.D. (summa cum laude, University of Bologna and Humboldt University of Berlin) is a post-doctoral Fellow at the
University of Bologna. As a Legal Officer, he served the United Nations in
Cambodia, where he assisted the judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the trials against the former leaders of the Khmer
Rouge. He taught Legal Methods and ICL at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh. He published several works
in Italian and international peer-reviewed law journals such as the European Journal of International Law, the New Journal of
European Criminal Law, the European Criminal Law Review and the Rivista italiana di diritto e procedura penale.
Guido Todaro is PhD in Law and Criminal Process in the University of Bologna, where he is also Tutor for taching Procedural
Criminal Law at SSPL.
PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS
TUITION FEE: € 200
STARTING DATE: JUL 10, 2017
FINISHING DATE: JUL 15, 2017
CALL DEADLINE: JUN 16, 2017
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