Mentoring Comparative Lawyers: Methods, Times, and Places

This volume features papers written in honor of Mauro Bussani, and celebrates the work and contributions of this renowned scholar of comparative law. The content reflects the various theoretical and practical areas in which he has already left a lasting mark.

The essays explore the theory and practice of comparative law in different areas and contexts, and highlight innovative approaches to a large variety of hot-topic private and public law subjects. The authors include young scholars, lawyers, legal consultants, human rights activists, and practitioners, all of whom Professor Bussani has trained, supervised, and supported throughout their careers.

The contributions emphasize the many ways in which Professor Bussani’s teaching and scientific output have enriched, revolutionized, and challenged both theory and practice. They cover e.g. the law of secured transactions, Western law and legal pluralism, fashion law, contract law in China and in the Arab World, contract and tort in the West, scientific evidence, risk regulation, global finance, human rights indicators, anti-discrimination laws, democracy and climate change law.

• Mauro Bussani
• Comparative Law of Secured Transactions
• Legal Pluralism in Western Property Law
• Comparative Law and Fashion
• Consumer Law in Arab Countries
• Contract Law in China
• Legal Stratification in Contract and Tort
• Comparative Law of Risk Regulation
• Comparative Law and Banking Practices
• Proxy Advisors and Proxy Voters
• Comparative Law and Global Finance
• Comparative Law and Anti-Discrimination Law
• Comparative Law and National Defence
• Comparative Law and Democracy
• Comparative Law and EU Foreign Policy

• Department of Legal, Language, Interpreting and Translation Studies (IUSLIT), University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

  Francesca Fiorentini, Marta Infantino

Francesca Fiorentini (Ph.D., University of Trento) is an Associate Professor of Comparative Law at the IUSLIT Department, University of Trieste, Italy. She is former Research Associate at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht of Hamburg within the network “Study Group on a European Civil Code” and former Marie Curie Fellow at the Zentrum für Europäisches Rechtspolitik of the University of Bremen. She has authored a book on secured transactions over immovable property in European law, co-edited many books and published more than fifty articles and essays in Italian, English and German. Some of her works have been translated into Spanish and Serbian. 

Marta Infantino (Ph.D., University of Palermo; LL.M., New York University School of Law) is an Associate Professor of Comparative Law at the IUSLIT Department, University of Trieste, Italy. She has held visiting professorships in Canada, Colombia, and France. She has authored or co-authored six books and more than fifty articles in Italian, French, and English. Some of her works have been translated into Greek, Chinese, and Spanish.

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