Cappelletti, Mauro
14 December 1927 (Folgaria (Trento), Italy) - 01 November 2004 (Fiesole (Florence), Italy)Description Area
Mauro Cappelletti, a law graduate of the University of Florence, was admitted to the bar in Italy in 1952 and received the "libera docenza" in 1956. After two years as research fellow at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau (Germany), he began his teaching career as professor at the University of Macerata in 1957. He moved to the University of Florence in 1963, where he founded the Institute of Comparative Law that he directed for 14 years. In 1970, he joined the faculty of the law school of Stanford, and afterwards spent part of the academic year at Stanford, and part in Italy. He joined the European University Institute (EUI) in 1976 as law professor and chaired the EUI Law Department consecutive times, until he left the Institute in 1987. In 1984-85, he was Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and became in 1985 a Senior Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution. He was Visiting Professor in some of the most prestigious law schools in the US and elsewhere: in 1988 he was the Goodhart Professor in Legal Science at Cambridge, and in 1985 he became the Lewis Talbot and Nadine H. Sheldon Professor of International Legal Studies at the University of Stanford. He received many honorary degrees, held the Shelton Professorship at Stanford in 1987 and took emeritus status in 1996. He was also President of the Italian Association of Comparative Law, and contributed thereby to the promotion of comparative law studies in Italy, together with scholars of the calibre of Gino Gorla and Rodolfo Sacco. Cappelletti also chaired the International Association of Legal Science and the International Association of Procedural Law. He was also elected a member of the Accademia dei Lincei, of the British Academy, of the Institut de France, of the Royal Academy of Belgium. Mauro Cappelletti was the last pupil of Piero Calamandrei and was a key figure in twentieth century legal culture, as the only Italian jurist known worldwide, and the most authoritative in spreading knowledge of the Italian legal system throughout the world.
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Cappelletti, Mauro
14 December 1927 (Folgaria (Trento), Italy) - 01 November 2004 (Fiesole (Florence), Italy)Description Area
Mauro Cappelletti, a law graduate of the University of Florence, was admitted to the bar in Italy in 1952 and received the "libera docenza" in 1956. After two years as research fellow at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau (Germany), he began his teaching career as professor at the University of Macerata in 1957. He moved to the University of Florence in 1963, where he founded the Institute of Comparative Law that he directed for 14 years. In 1970, he joined the faculty of the law school of Stanford, and afterwards spent part of the academic year at Stanford, and part in Italy. He joined the European University Institute (EUI) in 1976 as law professor and chaired the EUI Law Department consecutive times, until he left the Institute in 1987. In 1984-85, he was Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and became in 1985 a Senior Research Fellow of the Hoover Institution. He was Visiting Professor in some of the most prestigious law schools in the US and elsewhere: in 1988 he was the Goodhart Professor in Legal Science at Cambridge, and in 1985 he became the Lewis Talbot and Nadine H. Sheldon Professor of International Legal Studies at the University of Stanford. He received many honorary degrees, held the Shelton Professorship at Stanford in 1987 and took emeritus status in 1996. He was also President of the Italian Association of Comparative Law, and contributed thereby to the promotion of comparative law studies in Italy, together with scholars of the calibre of Gino Gorla and Rodolfo Sacco. Cappelletti also chaired the International Association of Legal Science and the International Association of Procedural Law. He was also elected a member of the Accademia dei Lincei, of the British Academy, of the Institut de France, of the Royal Academy of Belgium. Mauro Cappelletti was the last pupil of Piero Calamandrei and was a key figure in twentieth century legal culture, as the only Italian jurist known worldwide, and the most authoritative in spreading knowledge of the Italian legal system throughout the world.
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