Phd in PRIVATE AUTONOMY BUSINESS, WORK AND
PROTECTION OF RIGHTS IN EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

email: roberta.peleggi@uniroma1.it
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Present Position:
Associate Professor of Comparative Private Law, Department of Legal Studies, Sapienza University of Rome

Past Position:
2005-2020: Senior Researcher, Department of Legal Studies, Sapienza University of Rome.

Teaching and Research Fellowship:

Professor of ‘Comparative Private Law’ (6 ECTS) within the Master Program on European Studies, Faculty of Law, Sapienza University of Rome and of ‘Private Law of Globalization’ (in Italian) (9 ECTS) within the Law Degree Course (as from a.a. 2022-23);
2017-2021: Professor of ‘The Law of International Commercial Contracts’, within the Master Program on European Studies, Faculty of Law, Sapienza University of Rome
2015-2012; and 2007-2006: Teaching fellowship at the University of Teramo, Faculty of Law (Course on Comparative Private Law, 9 ECTS).
August 2003 – 2005: Fellowship, Faculty of Law, Department of Comparative Private Law, Sapienza University of Rome.

Education
2004: PH D., University of Macerata, Italy.
2002: Admission at Bar, Rome.
2000: Attendance of the post-graduate course for the preparation to the legal careers at the Institute for Legal Studies of Lazio "Arturo Carlo Jemolo".
1999: J.D., University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Rome.
Thesis in Comparative Private Law, summa cum laude.

Scholarships
2005: Max Planck Institute für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Hamburg.
2000: Italian State law Office, Rome.
1998: Department of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
1997: Department of Private Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

Research Periods Abroad/At International Organizations
2019 (August): Columbia Law School, New York
2019 (July): FAO, Rome
2005 (March-May): Max Planck Institute für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Hamburg.
2001 (August): Humboldt Universität, Berlino

Research Projects (Selection)
Co-editor in Chief of the UNILEX database, http://www.unilex.info (together with M.J. Bonell & E. Finazzi-Agrò)
The Global Fight against Cultural Terrorism”, Member of the Research group (led by prof. A. Fabbricotti), Sapienza grant 2019
“La scelta del diritto applicabile ai contratti commerciali internazionali ad opera delle parti: tendenze e prospettive”, Principal investigator – Sapienza grant 2016 for Organization of Conferences;
‘La task force italiana a tutela del patrimonio culturale nel quadro delle iniziative dell’UNESCO. In particolare, l’intervento militare e archeologico a Palmira’, Member of the Research group (led by Prof. A. Fabbricotti), Sapienza grant 2016;
‘Autonomia negoziale, giurisdizione e diritto applicabile: tendenze e prospettive tra riforme interne e iniziative transnazionali’, Member of the Research group (led by Prof. P. Farina), Sapienza grant 2015;
‘Il diritto al cognome materno’, Member of the research group (led by Prof. A. Fabbricotti), Sapienza grant 2014;
‘Il diritto dei contratti commerciali transfrontalieri alla luce delle recenti iniziative di armonizzazione in ambito europeo e sovranazionale’, Principal Investigator, La Sapienza grant, 2012.
‘Il diritto uniforme dei contratti commerciali internazionali nella giurisprudenza applicativa’, Principal Investigator, La Sapienza grant, 2010.
‘Common Core Evaluating Group’, EU 7th Framework Program, Member, 2009.

Partecipation as Speaker at Conferences
(Selection) Paper, Verso un diritto comune per la vendita in Europa: una nuova CISG su scala regionale?, presented on occasion of the Conference ‘El derecho civil del tercer milenio” (Lima, Peru, November 2014)
Paper, Il cognome dei figli: esperienze statali a confronto, presented on occasion of the Conference ‘Il diritto al cognome materno’, La Sapienza, Rome, May 2016.