Ajani, Gianmaria
意大利
教授
简历 课程 论文 演讲
Education
Professor Gianmaria Ajani graduated in 1979 from the Law School of the University of Torino magna cum laude. He also attended as a student the Faculté Internationale de Droit Comparé in Strasbourg.
Professional Experiences
From 1981 to 1983 he was research fellow at the University "Bocconi", in Milano; he then joined the Faculty of economics at the University of Trento. In 1987 he joined as associate professor the Law School of the University of Trento and received tenure as a full professor in 1990. From 1990 to 1996 he was appointed as Director of the Department of Law.
In 1996 he accepted a call from the University of Torino, where he now teaches Comparative Law and European Private Law at the Faculty of Law. In Torino he was appointed Director of the Department of Law in 1998 and he served two terms, until the year 2004.
Professor Ajani has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught Soviet Law (1988) Comparative Law (1995), and European Law (1997), at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, where he taught Private Comparative Law (2000) and at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, in Wuhan, PR of China (2001), where he taught Contract Law. He lectured in several academic institutions and law schools, such as Leiden, Harvard, McGill, Humboldt in Berlin, Hanoi.
Profession
From 2005 he is Director of the international Ph.D. program "Comparative Analysis of Institutions, Economics and Law"(IEL) . He is also Director of the Master program "Management of Development" offered by the University of Turin and the International Training Centre of the ILO.
Since 2004 he is Speaker for the Academic Network called ACQUIS Group, whose aim is to develop common "Principles of the Existing EC Private Law".
He is also coordinator, since 2002, of the research project "Uniform Terminology for European Private Law" whose aim is to facilitate the national reception of Community policy within the field of private law through the realisation of a common terminology of EC private law.
Other Professional Activities
Professor Ajani has advised several international institutions, such as the IMF, the EU Commission, The Council of Europe, UNDP, the ILO, on different aspects of legal reforms in Transition Countries, with particular reference to commercial laws, and to the codification of private law. From 1998 to 2003 he has acted for the German Agency for Technical Assistance (GTZ), as Expert to the Ministry of Commerce and to the Financial and Economic Committee of the National People′s Congress of PR of China.
Gianmaria Ajani is member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and of the Association Henry Capitant; he is also deputy director of the Centre for Theoretical and Applied Ontology, and member of the editorial Board of the Review of Central and Eastern European Law.
He has been involved in many field researches on legal change in PR of China, Vietnam, Laos, Albania, Russia, Ukraine, Somalia, Eritrea, Tanzania.
Professor Ajani is author of 8 books and of more than 60 other publications in English, Italian, German, French, Russian and Chinese.