Mauro Bussani
Italian professor (born 1959)
Mauro Bussani (born December 14, 1959, in Trieste, Italy, to Jolanda Evangelisti, a seamstress, and Nereo, an Italian Red Cross employee and unionist) is Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Trieste Law School, Italy, and adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Macao, Special Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China. In 2019 he was awarded a Ph.D. honoris causa by the Faculty of Law at the University of Fribourg, in Switzerland. Mauro Bussani is considered an outstanding expert of comparative law, and his work has been broadly recognized worldwide. His research focuses, among other themes, on the comparative law of contracts, torts, and security interests, on European private law and legal harmonization, on law and development, human rights and the law of globalization(s).
Legal career
Mauro Bussani received his J.D. from the University of Trieste Law School (summa cum laude). He lectured in the same University from 1982 to 1986, and was granted a tenured position as assistant professor at the University of Trento Law School in 1986. He became associate professor in 1998, Full Professor in 1999, and joined the Faculty of the University of Trieste Law School in 2000.
During his career, Mauro Bussani has delivered lectures in some of the most prominent academic institutions and universities in the world, and joined many high-ranking universities as Visiting professor. He is a member of the scientific councils of many internationally renowned law journals, and is a member of many learned societies and research institutes around the globe.
Scholarship
Bussani’s scholarship has had a global reach and impact.
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