Speakers

Marta Infantino, Ph.D. (Palermo), LL.M. (New York University), is Professor of Private Comparative Law at the University of Trieste, Italy. She has hold visiting professorship in Canada, Colombia, and France. She is Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and former member of the Scientific Council of the European Law Institute. She chairs the ‘Tort Law Group’ within the ‘Common Core of European Private Law’ project and has published extensively on comparative contract law, comparative tort law, global legal indicators and legal metrics. Her monograph on causation (‘La causalità nella responsabilità extracontrattuale’, Staempfli-ESI, 2012) was awarded by the Italian Academy of Sciences the prize for emerging authors in 2013.