Guido Alpa

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Guido Alpa

Piero Guido Alpa (born November 26, 1947 in Ovada ) is an Italian legal scholar and president of the Italian Bar Association.

Life

He graduated from the University of Genoa in 1970 . He was “procuratore legale” for six years (in 1997 the “ legal concept ” was abolished). After this preparation for avvocado , it was approved in Genoa in 1980. He has been admitted to the Italian Court of Cassation since 1984 . In 1980 he became a full professor at the University of Genoa and in 1991 was appointed to the Sapienza University of Rome . He has lectured at universities in Germany and abroad: Oregon (1977, 1979, 1985), Berkeley (1979), London (summer 1982), Mannheim (1984), Trient (1985), Coimbra (1986), Barcelona (1989) ; Granada (1990). Alpa is one of the most famous Italian legal scholars and enjoys an international reputation: in 1998 he was appointed Master of the Bench at Gray's Inn and since 2004 he has been a member of the British Academy . In 2001 he became Vice President and in 2004 President of the "Consiglio nazionale Forense", the Italian Bar Association . Alpa has been a member of many state commissions. In 2005, for example, he was chairman of the state commission for the codification of European consumer protection directives, the "Codice del consumo".

His handbook on Italian private law, the "Alpa" ("L'Alpa"), is (alongside the books by Torrente, Galgano, Trabucchie) a well-known book for exam preparation.

Honors

He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1996 by the Complutense University of Madrid , in 2007 by the University of Lima and in 2008 by the University of Buenos Aires . He is a holder of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Grand Cross). Alpa is a knight of the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher and Commander Knight of the Order of Gregory .

Works (selection)

  • Manuale di diritto privato, sixth edition, Padua 2009 (The "Alpa").
  • (together with Pulitini / Rodotà / Romani): Interpretazione giuridica ed analisi economica, Milan 1992.
  • Manuale di diritto dei consumatori, Bari 1995.
  • L'arte del giudicare, Rome 1996.
  • Le fonti non scritte e l'interpretazione, Turin 1999.
  • Corso di diritto contrattuale, Padua 2006.
  • (together with Giovanni Chiodi): Il progetto italo francese delle obbligazioni, 1927: un modello di armonizzazione nell'epoca della ricodificazione Milan 2007.
  • The Age of Rebuilding: sketches of the New Italian Private Law, London 2007.
  • (together with Mads Andenas): Fundamentals of European Private Law, Berlin, Heidelberg 2010. ISBN 978-3-540-79585-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see also European Lawyers' Information eXchange & Internet Resource
  2. ^ Andrea Torrente , Piero Schlesinger : "Manuale di diritto privato", Milan 2009.
  3. ^ Franchesco Galgano : "Diritto Privato", Padua 2009.
  4. ↑ Alberto Trabucchi , Giuseppe Trabucchi: "Istituzioni di diritto civile", Padua 2009.
  5. ↑ Laudation from March 21, 2008 (PDF file; 41 kB)

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personal data
SURNAME Alpa, Guido
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alpa, Piero Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Ovada