Comande Giovanni

Prof. Dr. Giovanni Comandé, LL.M. (Harvard), Esq., is full Professor of Private Comparative Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, in Pisa (Italy), mediator and arbitrator. He is the co-founder and director of LIDER-Lab (www.liderlab.org).He has led research projects approved and funded by national, international, public and private entities such as Italian CNR and MIUR, the European Science Foundation, the European Union, private foundations, banks and regulators. Among other things, he is the author of monographs, editor or co-editor of collective works, several articles and notes published in Italian, Spanish, English and French, on topics such as medical malpractice and insurance, privacy and e-commerce, tort law, information-technology.

He is a member of both the New York Bar and the Italian State Bar in Pisa, the American Law Institute, the European Law Institute, the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law, and the European Tort Law Group. He visited Laval University (2013), Fordham School of law (2012), Paris II (2008), Wake Forrest University School of Law (2003), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2001), the University of South Carolina School of Law (2000), and held the Jean Monnet Chair entitled Human Rights and Remedies for Personal Injuries, in European Community Law: An Interdisciplinary Approachfrom 1994 to 2001. His areas of interest currently revolve around comparative law, tort, European private law, insurance law, information society law (mainly privacy and e-commerce), bio-right and life sciences, health and the law.