Prof. Pietro Rescigno

Pietro Rescigno, professor emeritus and former tenured professor of civil law at the University ‘La Sapienza’ in Rome, was born in Salerno in 1928. He graduated in law in 1948, was a non-tenured professor as of 1951 and became a tenured professor in civil law in 1953. He taught at the Universities of Macerata (1954), Pavia (1958), Bologna (1960) and Rome (since 1970). He also taught labor law and trade union law at the Bocconi University in Milan; civil procedural law and commercial law in Macerata, employment law in Pavia, private comparative law in Bologna and Rome. He has acted as speaker at seminars, courses and conferences in Tübingen, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Lausanne, at the Faculté internationale de droit comparé of Luxembourg, in Latin America (Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Argentina), Beijing, Tokyo. He has received an honorary degree from the University of Bologna, that of Macerata and of San Marcos, Lima.

He is coeditor of Rivista di diritto civile (since 1957), Giurisprudenza italiana (since 1967), Rivista di diritto commerciale (since 1979), Diritto dell’informazione e dell’informatica, and Quaderni del pluralismo. He has also directed the civil law section of the Enciclopedia Giuridica of the Istituto dell’Enciclopedia italiana. He was director of Trattato di diritto privato published by Utet (twenty-three volumes, 1985-1992), currently at its second edition.

He is the director of the series Biblioteca di diritto privato (Jovene, Napoli), Legislazione economica (Giuffrè, Milano), Diritto e problemi contemporanei (Giuffrè, Milano), Momenti del pensiero giuridico moderno (Forni, Bologna), Quaderni del notariato (Giuffrè, Milano).

Professor Rescigno is a member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Bologna, the Accademia Pontaniana di Napoli, the Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, the Istituto Veneto, the Accademia Peloritana di Messina, the European Academy, the Accademia dei Lincei (correspondent in 1976, national since 1988).

He was a member of the national committee for bio-ethics between 1990 and 2005.

Professor Rescigno was awarded the title of grand cross by the Ordine al merito della Repubblica in 2014.

He is the author of the following publications: Incapacità naturale e adempimento (1950); Interpretazione del testamento (1952); Studi sull’accollo (1958); I sindacati nello Stato moderno (1965); Persona e comunità, I (1966, reprint 1987); Lezioni su proprietà e famiglia (1971); Persona e comunità, II (1988); Introduzione al codice civile (1991 4th ed. 1994); Manuale del diritto privato italiano (1973-2000); L’abuso del Diritto, (1998); Persona e comunità, III (1999); Matrimonio e famiglia (2001); Codici. Storia e geografia di un’idea (2013).