Brief Bio

Elena D’Alessandro is full professor of European and Italian Civil Procedure at the University of Turin, Law Department. She obtained a Ph. D. in Civil Procedure at the University “La Sapienza” Rome (2004), a fellowship of the Alexander VonHumboldt Foundation (2009) and a fellowship of the German DAAD (2011-2012, 2013).

She has been visiting professor at the University of Bielefeld (2010) and Heidelberg (2011, DAAD Heidelberg Program zur Förderung internationales Gastwissenschaftlerinnen und Gastwissenschaftler) and visiting scholar at Queen Mary Law School, Columbia Law School, McGill School of Law, Max Planck Institute for Private International Law and Comparative Law and Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law.

She is currently coordinating the EU DG Justice Project named “LAWtrain (JUST-JTRA-EJTR-AG-2017). She also successfully coordinated the EU DG Justice Project named “European Civil Procedure for Lawyers: Promoting Training to Improve the Effectiveness of Transnational Justice” ((JUST/2014/JTRA/AG/EJTR/6771).

Her main research interests concern Transnational Litigation, European Civil Procedure, Arbitration.

Memberships

  • Associazione italiana tra gli studiosi del processo civile (2008-present)
  • Associazione Italiana Alexander con Humboldt (2012-present)
  • Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Internationales Verfahrensrecht (2011-present)
  • European Law Institute (2013-present)

Selected Publications

A) Monographs:

  • Il procedimento pregiudiziale interpretativo dinanzi alla Corte di giustizia, Giappichelli, Torino, 2012, p. 1-427 (The Reference for a Preliminary Ruling before the European Court of Justice)
  • La connessione tra controversie transnazionali, Giappichelli, Torino, 2009, p. 1-336 (Related Actions in International Procedure Law)
  • Il procedimento uniforme per le controversie di modesta entità. Regolamento comunitario dell’11 luglio 2007, n. 861, Giappichelli, Torino, 2008, P. 1-148 (European Small Claims Regulation No 861/2007)
  • Il riconoscimento delle sentenze straniere, Giappichelli, Torino, 2007, p. 1-400 (Recognition of foreign Judgments in Italy)
  • L’oggetto del giudizio di cognizione. Tra crisi delle categorie del diritto civile ed evoluzioni del diritto processuale, ISBN:978-88-921-0471-6, Giappichelli, 2016 (The cause of action in Italy

B) Books (as co-Author):

  • Personal Participation and In Absentia Trials in Civil Proceedings Imposing Pecuniary Penalties within the European Judicial Area, in QUATTROCOLO, RUGGERI, Personal Participation in Criminal Proceedings. A Comparative Study of Participatory Safeguards and in absentia Trials in Europe, Springer, Heidelberg, 2019, ISBN 978-3-030-01186-4, 511-524
  • Article 39, 40, 41, 42 in Calvo Caravaca, Davi, Mansel (Edited by), Commentary of EU Regulation on the Law Applicable to Succession, Cambridge University Press, 2016 (European Research Project “The Europeanization of Private International Law of Successions”JUST/2013/JCIV/AG/4000004710)
  • Die poenale Funktion des Schadensrersatzrechts im deutsch-italienischen Deliktsrecht und im IPR/IZPR, in Baldus, Schmon (Edited by), Schriften zur Entwicklung des Privatrechtssystems, herausgegeben von Christian Baldus und Christian Pohl, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2015, ISBN: 9783631661291, p. 53-76.
  • Italy, in Grossi (Edited by), The U. S. Supreme Court and the Modern Common Law Approach, Cambridge University Press, 2015, ISBN: 9781107028050, p. 332-337.
  • Enforcing agreements resulting from mediation within the European judicial Area: A comparative overview from an Italian perspective, in Barth, Böhm, Covata, Chalupka-Dunse, Fürle, MaruccI, Online-Mediation in Cross-Border Disputes, Stuttgard, 2013, p. 89-94

C) Essays:

  • Recent trends in enforcing US punitive damages awards in Italy, ZZP-Int (22), 2017, 77–92
  • Reconocimiento y exequátur en Italia de sentencias extranjeras que condenan al pago de daños punitivos, in Revista de Derecho Privado, Universidad Externado de Colombia, n.º 34, enero-junio de 2018, 313-326
  • Results of Mediation and Cross-Border Enforcement of Mediation Agreements, ERA Forum, 2013, p. 1-14
  • Choosing Among the Three Regulations Creating a European Enforcement Order (EEO Regulation, EOP Regulation, ESCP Regulation): Practical Guidelines, in Int’l Lis, 2010, p. 39-50.

Courses taught at CTLS

  • European Civil Procedure (Fall 2018)
  • Transnational Litigation (Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2017)