Matteo Ferrari - Curriculum Vitae Department of Juridical Sciences University of Trento Italy Via Verdi 53-38122 Trento Italy Tel: 0039 0461 883506 Cell: 0039 328 5715266 E-mail: matteo.ferrari@unitn.it EDUCATION Ph.D. in Comparative Private Law, University of Trento, Department of Juridical Sciences, March 2008 Master in Law and Economics, dual degree awarded by the Faculté d Economie Appliquée, Université d Aix-Marseille III (Maîtrise en analyse économique du droit) and the Faculty of Economics, University of Bologna (European Master in Law and Economics), September 2004. University of Trento, Faculty of Law, J.D., June 2001. CURRENT POSITION Post-doc fellow in Comparative Private Law, Department of Juridical Sciences, University of Trento. Research Project: The Certification of Biobanks. PAST POSITIONS Post-doc fellow in Comparative Private Law, Department of Juridical Sciences, University of Trento. Research Project: Wine Law: A Comparative Analysis. RESEARCH INTERESTS General Food Law Tort Law Contract Law Comparative methodology Law and Society Law and Cognitive Sciences Current Research Interests Tortious and Contractual Liability in the Food Industry, with a particular focus on the liability of certification bodies and retailing chains. A Comparative Analysis of the Regulation of Geographical Indications for Food Products, with a particular focus on the nexus between such form of IP law and the socio-cultural context within which they are placed.
EXTERNALLY FUNDED GRANTS January 2008: 40.000,00 euros research grant by the Unione Italiana Vini (the most important Italian Association of wine producers) to develop Legal Guidelines and a Code of Conduct for the wine industry. October 2008: 20.000,00 euros research grant (with U. Izzo) funded by Fondazione E. Mach (a private body conducting research and teaching in the agro-food sector) to study the accreditation process for private certification bodies certifying food products. FELLOWSHIPS Three-years Doctoral Fellowship (2004-2007), University of Trento (covering tuition fees, housing costs plus a monthly stipend) One-year Master Fellowship (October 2003 October 2004), University of Bologna (covering tuition fees and housing costs) LICENSURE AND OTHER APPOINTMENTS Admitted to the Italian Bar, November 2004 Member of the Appeal Committee of Siquria, a private certification body operating in the sector of quality wines Responsible for the section Legal News on Food Law of the Review Ristorazione collettiva, Il Sole 24ore Business Media LANGUAGES English (fluent) French (reading & listening comprehension) INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES Visiting Scholar, AgLaw Centre, University of New England, Armidale (Australia), March 2010 Visiting Scholar, Melbourne University, School of Law (Australia), January-February 2010 Visiting Scholar, Boston University, School of Law, Boston (USA) January-April 2007 Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia (USA), October-December 2006 Third term of the European Master in Law and Economics spent at the Faculty of Applied Economics, University of Aix-Marseille III, Aix-en-Provence (France), April-July 2004 Second term of the European Master in Law and Economics spent at the Faculty of Law, University of Gent, Gent (Belgium), January-March 2004
Internship at the John Wilson Law Firm, Colombo, Sri Lanka, February-April 2003 International Exchange Program University of Trento, Faculty of Law Vermont Law School, South Royalton (Vt, USA), Fall Semester, August-December 2000 OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Scientific Coordinator (with U. Izzo) of the workshop: Socio-Cultural Contexts and Legal Change in Food Law. Keynote speaker: David Nelken; discussants: Giovanni Pascuzzi, Giuseppe Bellantuono, Umberto Izzo, Matteo Ferrari, Trento, Faculty of Law, April 12, 2010 Scientific Coordinator (with U. Izzo) of the Seminars on Food Safety Law, held in Trento, Faculty of Law, March-May 2009 Supervision of many students writing their final dissertation (such dissertation is required in Italy in order to obtain the law degree) PUBLICATIONS Book Risk Perception, Culture, and Legal Change. A Comparative Study on Food Safety in the Wake of the Mad Cow Crisis, Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, 2009 (peer reviewed) Journal articles (peer reviewed) The Liability of Private Certification Bodies for Pure Economic Loss: Comparing English and Italian Law, Journal of European Tort Law 2010, 3, 266-305. Book Chapters La responsabilità da incidente sciistico in Francia (Liability for Ski Accidents in France), in IZZO, PASCUZZI (eds.), La responsabilità sciistica. Analisi giurisprudenziale e prospettive dalla comparazione (Liability for Ski Accidents. Case Law and Comparative Analysis), Torino, 2007 La responsabilità sciistica negli Stati Uniti (Liability for Ski Accidents in the USA), in IZZO, PASCUZZI (eds.), La responsabilità sciistica. Analisi giurisprudenziale e prospettive dalla comparazione (Liability for Ski Accidents. Case Law and Comparative Analysis), Torino, 2007 La responsabilità precontrattuale (Precontractual Liability), in PASCUZZI (ed.) Pacta Sunt Servanda, Bologna, 2006 Il recesso (Unilateral Termination), in PASCUZZI (ed.) Pacta Sunt Servanda, Bologna, 2006 Cure odontoiatriche e responsabilità civile (Malpractice in Odontoiatry), in IZZO, PASCUZZI (eds.) La responsabilità medica nella Provincia Autonoma di Trento. Il fenomeno. I problemi. Le soluzioni (Medical Malpractice in the Provincia Autonoma of Trento. Data, Problems, and Perspective Solutions), Trento, 2003 Journal Articles (not peer reviewed)
Aspetti giuridici nella gestione dei punti critici del processo produttivo vitivinicolo, in Le Bulletin de l OIV. Revue Technique Internazionale, 2009, vol. 82, 101-110 (Legal Aspects in the Management of the Critical Points in the Wine Productive Process; paper published also in the cdrom collecting the works presented at the 31st World Congress of Vine and Wine, Verona, June 2008) Ruolo del diritto e mutamento giuridico in Giappone: il caso della responsabilità del produttore (Role of the Law and Legal Change in Japan: The Producer s Liability Case), in Danno e responsabilità 2008, 384 Incidenti automobilistici e fauna selvatica: criteri di responsabilità, indennizzi no-fault ed analisi economica del diritto (Car Accidents and Wild Animals: Liability Rules, No-Fault Compensation and Economic Analysis of Law), in Danno e responsabilità, 2007, 70 Il danno da fumo tra regolamentazione e risarcimento: considerazioni in tema di informazione, dissuasione e limiti cognitivi degli individui (Tobacco-related Damages between Regulation and Tort Liability: Information, Dissuasion and Cognitive Limits of Individuals), in Consumatori, diritti e mercato, 1/2007, 109 Rischio sportivo e responsabilità da attività sciistica. Spunti comparatistici dalla Francia e dagli Stati Uniti (Assumption of Risk and Ski Liability. Comparative Cues from France and USA), in Danno e responsabilità, 2006, 635 L incerto cammino della tutela giuridica delle misure tecnologiche di protezione del diritto d autore: recenti orientamenti in materia di modifica di consoles per videogiochi (The Troublesome Path of the Legal Protection of the Copyright Anticircumvention Measures: Recent Trends with Regard to the Alteration of Videogames Consoles), in Diritto dell Internet, 2006, 269 La responsabilità civile in odontoiatria (Malpractice in Odontoiatry), in Danno e responsabilità 2004, 121 Papers published on line The Regulation of Geographical Indications in the Wine Sector (2009). Social Science Research Network Electronic Library. Working Paper Series. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1465378 Risk Perception, Culture, and Legal Change. A Comparative Study on Food Safety in the Aftermath of the Mad Cow Crisis (2008). Social Science Research Network Electronic Library. Accepted Paper Series, available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1159763 Other Works Legal Guidelines for the Wine Industry, output of the research project financed by Unione Italiana Vini on wine law. Code of Conduct for the Wine Industry, output of the research project financed by Unione Italiana Vini on wine law. (con U. Izzo) La responsabilità sciistica. Banca dati di materiali normativi e giurisprudenziali (Liability for Ski Accidents. Data Bank on Legislative and Jurisprudential Materials), Torino, 2006
(cd-rom accluso a La responsabilità sciistica. Analisi giurisprudenziale e prospettive dalla comparazione - cd-rom attached to Liability for Ski Accidents. Case Law and Comparative Analysis). Liability for Defective Medical Devices. On the Joint Use of Ex-ante Safety Regulation and Ex-post Tort Liability, Master Dissertation, 2004 PRESENTATIONS Risk Perception, Food Governance, and Social Values: The Case of Mad Cow Crisis, 9 th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics. Congress title: Eursafe 2010: Global Food Security: Ethical and Legal Challenges, Bilbao, Spain, 17 settembre 2010 Risk Perception, Culture, and Legal Change. A Comparative Study on Food Safety in the Wake of the Mad Cow Crisis, paper accepted at the EASST_010 Conference, Practising Science and Technology, Performing the Social, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Trento, September 2-4, 2010 Il ruolo del contesto socio-culturale nel processo di mutamento giuridico (The Role of the Socio- Cultural Context in the Process of Legal Change), Biennial Conference of young comparatists, Italian Association of Comparative Law, Catania, May 28, 2010 Risk Perception, Culture and Legal Change, Faculty Workshop, University of New England, Armidale, Australia, March, 25 2010 A Coordinated Approach to the Law of Civil Liability in the Agro-Food Industry, Doctoral Workshop in Law and Technology, European University Institute, Fiesole (Firenze), June, 5 2009 Ruolo del diritto e mutamento giuridico in Giappone (Role of the Law and Legal Change in Japan), East Asia Law Course, Trento, Faculty of Law, May 14, 2008 Sicurezza alimentare e responsabilità civile (Food Safety and Tort Law), Comparative Private Law Course, Trento, Faculty of Law, May 22, 2007 La responsabilità del produttore in Giappone (Product Liability in Japan), East Asia Law Course, Trento, Faculty of Law, May 15, 2007 Food safety, risk perception and culture, Boston University, School of Law, April 3, 2007 Il danno da fumo tra regolamentazione e risarcimento: considerazioni in tema di informazione, dissuasione e limiti cognitivi degli individui (Tobacco-related Damages between Regulation and Tort Liability: Information, Dissuasion and Cognitive Limits of Individuals), Comparative Private Law Course, Trento, Faculty of Law, May 16, 2006 La disciplina del commercio elettronico (The Regulation of the E-Commerce), School for the Legal Professions, Verona, Faculty of Law, April 22, 2006 Il contenzioso per responsabilità da fumo in Italia e Francia (Tobacco Litigation in Italy and France), Comparative Private Law Course, Trento, Faculty of Law, May 10, 2005
La responsabilità civile in odontoiatria (Malpractice in Odontoiatry), University of Verona, Department of Forensic Medicine, March 13, 2004 TEACHING EXPERIENCES Courses Lecturer, Course on Comparative Food Law, Trento, Faculty of Law, Spring Semester, 2010 Lecturer, Course on Food Safety in Comparative Law, Trento, Faculty of Law, Spring Semester, years: 2007 2008-2009 Lecturer, Course on Wine Law, Trento, Faculty of Law, Spring Semester, 2009 Lecturer, Course on Pain and Suffering Damages, Trento, Faculty of Law, Spring Semester, 2006 Lecturer, Course on Sport Liability, Trento, Faculty of Law, Spring Semester, 2005 Other Teaching Activities L informazione nel diritto alimentare: il ruolo delle certificazioni (Providing Information to Food Consumers: The Role of Certifications), Lecture for the phd students of the Trento Doctoral School in comparative law, Trento, June 30, 2010 L approccio culturale alla comparazione (The Cultural Approach to Comparative Analysis), Lecture for the phd students of the Trento Doctoral School in comparative law, Trento, June 16, 2010 Wine, Geographical Indications, and IP. A Comparative Analysis of US, European and Australian Experiences, Trento Intellectual Property Summer Academy, Trento, Faculty of Law, June 19, 2009