Ugo Mattei, Alfred and Hanna Fromm Chair in International and Comparative Law

Professor Mattei has been a visiting scholar at Yale Law School and the University of Cambridge (Trinity College and Wolfson College), and a visiting professor at Oslo, Berkeley, Montpellier, Macau. In 1985 he joined the law school of the University of Trento as an assistant professor and he received tenure as a full professor in 1990. In Trento he taught Civil Law and Introduction to African Law and Institutions. In 1992 he was appointed as a professor in the Faculte’ Internationale de Droit Compare’ (Strasbourg), where he served for  four years. In 1993 he was a visiting professor on the Hastings faculty. In 1994 he was appointed to the Hastings faculty as the first holder of the Fromm Chair in International and Comparative Law, succeeding R.B. Schlesinger in teaching Comparative Law. He also teaches Political Economy of Law. In 1997 he accepted a call from the University of Turin, Faculty of Law to succeed the famous Italian scholar Rodolfo Sacco in the Chair of Civil Law. He is a Full Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, a member of the Executive Editorial Board of the American Journal of Comparative Law, a member of the Advisory Board of the Friburg Institute of Comparative Law, of the Austrian and the Romanian Societies of Comparative Law; and an advisor to the Institute of Law, Economics and Finances at Copenhagen Business School.

Mattei’s work is highly interdisciplinary. He has published eighteen books and more than one hundred other publications in English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese.

Courses Taught: Comparative Law and Law & Economics Seminar