Brief Bio

Professor Besso, full professor for Civil Procedure since 2000, joined the Law Faculty of the University of Torino in 2008 after serving as a professor of law at the University of Piemonte Orientale (2000-2008), and as junior professor at the University of Palermo (1998-2000). She has been visiting fellow at the Cardozo Law School (2013), at the Italian Academy at Columbia University (2008), at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of London (2005-2006), and at the University College of Oxford (1998). As a DAAD scholar she conducted research at the University of Bielefeld (1995). Member of the Board of the Review “Giurisprudenza Italiana”, Professor Besso is on the Executive Committee of the “Scuola di specializzazione per le professioni legali” of the Universities of Torino and Piemonte Orientale, and is member of the Board of the Doctorate on “Law, Individuals, and the Market”. An expert in the law of evidence, transnational dimensions of civil procedure, and alternatives to adjudication, Professor Besso has written and lectured in these fields..

Representative Publications

Il processo civile. Nozioni generali, Torino: Giappichelli, 2014 [BOOK]

Problemi e prospettive delle corti supreme: esperienze a confronto (ed. with Chiarloni), Napoli: ESI, 2012 [BOOK]

The Italian Litigation System: A Civil Law System with a Touch of Common Law, in Civil Procedure in Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Eurasia Context, ed. by Maleshin, Moscow, 2012, 269-277

Cooperation in the Taking of Evidence, International Journal of Procedural Law, 2012, 68-87

L’attuazione della direttiva europea n. 52 del 2008: uno sguardo comparativo, Rivista trimestrale di diritto e procedura civile, 2012, 863-888

Mediazione obbligatoria: lo stato delle cose, Giurisprudenza Italiana, 2012, 227-231

Provisional Measures and Taking of Evidence: A European Perspective, in Comparative Studies on Enforcement and Provisional Measures, edited by Stürner – Kawano, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011, 390-397

Evidence and Proof in Business Tort Litigation, in Cross Border Insolvency, Intellectual property Litigation, Arbitration and Ordre Public, edited by Stürner – Kawano, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011, 369-376

La discovery anglo-americana: un insospettato trapianto dal processo romano-canonico, in Aequitas sive deus. Studi in onore di Rinaldo Bertolino, vol. II, Torino: Giappichelli, 2011, 1193-1206

Evidence: the Framework, Taking of Evidence, Pre-Action Taking of Evidence, in Civil Justice in Italy, edited by De Cristoforo – Trocker, Tokio: Jigakusha, 2010, 91-122, 297-306

La mediazione italiana, Revista eletrônica de direito processual, 2010, 248-269

La mediazione civile e commerciale (ed.), Torino: Giappichelli, 2010 [BOOK]

Discovery all’estero: un nuovo capitolo del confronto tra Europa e Stati Uniti, in Il diritto processuale civile internazionale, a cura di Consolo e De Cristofaro, Milano: IPSOA, 2006, 1387-1397

Standard europeo di giustizia civile e accertamento dei fatti, Nuove autonomie, 2006, 205-210

Actualité de l’action des associations des consommateurs en Italie dans la perspective européenne, in Le droit des consommateurs et les procédures spécifiques en Europe, edited by Rochfeld – Jeuland, Paris: EJT, 2005, 131-140

Taking of Evidence Abroad: From the 1970 Hague Convention to the 2001 European Regulation, in International Civil Litigation in Europe and Relations with Third States, edited by Nuyts – Watté, Bruxelles: Bruylant, 2005, 365-379

La prova prima del processo, Torino: Giappichelli, 2004 [BOOK]

La sentenza civile inesistente, Torino: Giappichelli, 1997 [BOOK]

Probabilità e prova: considerazioni sulla struttura del giudizio di fatto, Rivista trimestrale di diritto e procedura civile, 1991, 1119-1163

Courses taught at CTLS

  • Comparative Civil Procedure and Dispute Resolution (Fall 2010)
  • Core Course: Transnational Law and Global Governance (Fall 2014)
  • International Commercial Arbitration (Fall 2014)