Vita

Ferdinando Mazzarella studied Law at the Universities of Palermo and Aberdeen. In 1996 he earned his degree cum laude with a thesis on “The Rights in rem in the Middle Ages. Ideas for an investigation into Property throughout History”, being awarded the prize “Edoardo Ruffini” from the “Accademia dei Lincei” for the best Italian thesis in Legal History. In 2001 he obtained his doctorate “Legal History” at the University of Milano “Statale”. In the same period, he received several research grants from various institutions, including the Italian Ministry of University for a research in Barcelona “Archivo de la Corona de Aragon” (1998), the “Italian Center for Studies on the Early Middle Ages” (1999) and the University of Palermo for a research on “Trademarks and consumer protection from Bartholus de Saxoferrato to the present day” (2002). Since the latter research, his interests focused on the history of European Commercial and Civil Law in the 19th and 20th Centuries. In 2010 he obtained the National qualification as Associate Professor in Naples University SOB and in 2017 the National habilitation for tenured Full Professorship in Legal History. He was a fellow with scholarships at Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main in 2009, 2012 and 2018, and a guest lecturer in several Universities, including Madrid UAM, Madrid “Carlos III” and Münster WWU. From 2017 to 2019 he was one of the principal investigators of the research project on “Civil Law in the post-bourgeois Era: 100 Years of Private Social Law in Germany, France and Italy”, financed by the “Italian-German Center for the European Dialogue Villa Vigoni”. From 2019 he is Full Professor of Legal History at the University of Palermo.