Italy

Brief description of the legal entity

The European University Institute (EUI) was set up in 1972 by the six founding Member States of the European Communities to provide advanced academic training to doctoral researchers and to promote research at the highest level. It opened its doors to the first researchers in 1976. It presently carries out research in a European perspective in Economics, Law, History and Civilisation, and the Political and Social Sciences.

Short profile of the team members

Fabrizio Cafaggi, the scientist in charge for the research team of the European University Institute (EUI), holds the Comparative Law Chair at the EUI. He is also Professor of Private Law at the University of Trento (on leave until 2011). His research interests focus on private regulation at the national and transnational level and its interplay with new modes of governance. He has been writing extensively on European private law addressing the role of the institutional framework. He combines a law & economics approach with neo institutionalism and engages into interdisciplinary analysis, using empirical and field research. He serves as Director of the European Private Law Forum, and is member of the editing board of ‘Mercato, Concorrenza e Regole’, member of the scientific board of ‘Giornale di diritto del lavoro e delle relazioni industriali’, member of the board of Forum de la Regulation, member of the Consultative Board SECOLA, member of the scientific committee of AICCON, and affiliate member of the American Law Institute.

Title: Prof.
Position: Professor
Tel: +39 0554685241
Fax: +39 0554685730
E-mail: fabrizio.cafaggi@eui.eu

Address: European University Institute
Via dei Roccettini 9
50014 San Domenico di Fiesole
Firenze
Italy

Federica Casarosa is currently Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in Florence. She graduated in Private Comparative Law at the University of Pisa. She obtained a Master of Research in Law from the European University Institute (2003). In 2008, she successfully defended her PhD thesis on the role of information in online contracting, in particular analysing protection provided to consumers in the pre-contractual phase. Her research interests focus on children protection in the media sector.

E-mail: federica.casarosa@eui.eu

Elda Brogi is a research assistant at the European University Institute, Department of Law, and a Professor, on contract, on Communications Law at the University of Florence, Faculty of Literature. She is also a consultant at the Italian House of Representatives. A graduate from the Law School of the University of Florence and a fellow at the postgraduate course on ‘Studies and Parliamentary Researches – Silvano Tosi’, she has a PhD in Constitutional Law and General Public Law from La Sapienza University, Rome. She has worked as a European MP assistant and as a Research Fellow at the University of Perugia. Her research interests focus on audiovisual and new media law and regulation.

E-mail: elda.brogi@eui.eu