Fabrizio Cafaggi

Professor of Comparative Law

Tel. [+39] 055 4685 516 / 241
Fax [+39] 055 4285 200
Email Fabrizio.Cafaggi@eui.eu 

Secretary/Administrative Assistant Marlies Becker 

EUI Law Department
Via Boccaccio 121
50133 Firenze - Italy

On leave from Università degli Studi di Trento; appointed in October 2002, contract until May 2013  

Research and Supervision 

• Comparative Private Law
• Law and Economics
• Self-regulation and Codes of Conduct with a Special Emphasis on Private Law and Regulatory Techniques
• Non-profit Organisations and Welfare Systems
• United States Contracts and Torts Law
• Italian Law

Languages 

Italian, English, French, Spanish

Current Seminars at the EUI 

• Private Transnational Governance by Contract  (with C. Cutler)
• The Law of Economics of Law-Making  (with A. Arcuri and A. Renda)
• Public and Private in Transnational Law Making: A Critical Reappraisal  (with F. Francioni )

Current Research Projects 

• HiiL project  - Private Transnational Regulation: Constitutional Foundations and Governance Design 

Private Regulation, Supply Chain and Contractual Networks: The Case of Food Safety 

Private Regulation in European Private Law  

• Self-Regulation

Social Norms, Self-regulation and the European Integration of Private Law: an Alternative Law and Economics Perspective  (624 Kb)

Comparative Research Project on Self-Regulation  (124 Kb)

• New Modes of Governance (NEWGOV)

Presentation of the NewGov Project  (50 Kb)

The Making of European Private Law: Regulation and Governance Design  (273 Kb)

• European Private Law

National Supreme Courts and European Private Law  (supported by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advances Studies) (449 Kb)

European Private Law and the Constitutionalisation of the European Union  (449 Kb)

Tenancy Law and Procedure in the European Union 

European Private Law in Estearn Countries (supported by the Academy of European Law)

• Network of Firms and Corporate Governance

The Governance of Networks  (140 Kb)

Small and Medium Enterprises' Financing and Network Models  (368 Kb)

Books Recently Published 

• The Challenge of Transnational Private Regulations: Conceptual and Constitutional Debates 
• Contractual Networks, Inter-Firm Cooperation and Economic Growth 
• New Frontiers of Consumer Protection 
• Il contratto di rete  
• The Regulatory Function of European Private Law 
• Making European Private Law 

Presentations 

 

• Corporate Social Responsibility

The Pluridisciplinary Dimension of Corporate Social Responsibility:  - Theoretical Questions of Regulation  (151 Kb)

• Networks of Firms - Reti di Imprese

Politiche industriali, reti di imprese e sviluppo locale  (29 Kb)

Modelli organizzativi nelle reti di pmi e relazioni di finanziamento  (118 Kb)

• Self-regulation and European Legal Integration

L’autorégulation en Europe, nouvelles convergences et politique communautaire. Une approche comparative de l’AR en Europe  (73 Kb)

Self-regulatory Competition  (229 Kb)

Which Governance Design for European Private Law?  (51 Kb)

• European Private Law

New Regulatory Modes in Europe: Proposals for Reform  (197 Kb)

• Contract Law and Regulation

The Regulatory Function of Contract Law  (139 Kb)

La funzione regolativa del diritto dei contratti  (136 Kb)

Self-Regulation and European Contract Law  (328 Kb)

On-line Publications 

• Private Regulation in European Private Law ,  EUI RSCAS Working Paper 2009/31
• The Making of European Private Law: Regulation and Governance Design (273 Kb)
• Self-Regulation in European Contract Law , available at www.ejls.eu 
• Internal market, Contract law and New Governance  (117 Kb)
• Contractual Networks and the Small Business Act: Towards European Principles?  EUI LAW Working Paper 2008/15

Suggested Topics for Ph.D. Dissertations 

1. 1. Codification of private law and the convention
   2. The constitutional dimension of European private law
   3. Codification of private law and the enlargement process
   4. Regulatory impact of the enlargement process and the recodification process
   5. European private law: restatement or codification?
   6. Different harmonization strategies in consolidating European private law
   7. Comparison between EU and USA harmonization processes in contract law
   8. The role of the subsidiarity and proportionality principles in the harmonisation of contract law
   9. The role of socio-economic institutions (such as different models of capitalism) in comparative legal analysis and the contribution of comparative law and economics
   10. Different judicial styles in european legal systems
   11. The possibility/impossibility of legal transplants in European private law
   12. The public/private law divide in comparative legal analysis
   13. The regulatory function of private law in the light of the distinction between private law and administrative law
   14. Lex mercatoria and European contract law
   15. International trade and European contract law
   16. Good faith in contract law: comparing USA and different European legal systems
   17. Remedies in contract law: a comparative analysis
   18. Relation between tort and administrative law. Regulatory compliance and the relationship between USA and European legal systems
   19. Minimum harmonization versus complete harmonization of product liability: the impact on national legal systems of different institutional strategies.
   20. Comparing social rights in the light of different constitutional traditions
   21. The institutional dimension of social rights in european law and national legal systems
   22. Welfare state models and the different functions of tort law
   23. The legal status of non-profit organizations at the European level
   24. Welfare state reforms and the competition between non-profit and for-profit organisations