Professor of Roman Law and Principles of European Law, Department of Law
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Aldo Petrucci was born in Rome on 14 July 1957, studied and graduated in Law at the Sapienza University of Rome in 1981. He became university researcher at the Department of History and Theory of Law at Tor Vergata University of Rome in 1988. He obtained the PhD in Roman Law in 1990. In 1998 he became associate professor and in 2000 full professor in the Scientific Area IUS/18 – Roman Law and Antiquity Law Systems at the Faculty of Law, hence at the Department of Law, University of Pisa.

Institutional assignments

Professor Petrucci has had several institutional roles at the University of Pisa: from 2008 to 2016 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Specialization School for Legal Professions; from 2012 to 2020, director's delegate for teaching and student relations at the Department of Law; from 2016 to 2022 director of the Master’s Degree Course in Law; from 2018 to 2022 president of the legal area scientific committee (area 12); from 2018 to 2022, scientific coordinator of Law – Political Sciences committee (Polo bibliotecario 2); from 2020 to 2022 Deputy Head of the Department of Law.

Scientific and teaching activity

Professor Petrucci has regularly taught Institutions of Roman Law, History of Roman Law, Roman Law and Foundations of European Law in Master’s Degree Course in Law and other legal degree courses, in the Specialization School of Legal Professions and at the Livorno Naval Academy.

Since 1998 he has taught and been a visiting professor at several European, Chinese and Latin American universities.

His main fields of research deal with the various areas of Roman public law, especially constitutional evolution, organization of territory and international relations; the various branches of Roman private law, in particular the area of contract law and commercial relations; and the reconstruction of the historical roots of the private law systems of some European countries, notably with reference to the law of contract and inheritance.

Professor Petrucci serves on the scientific committees of several Italian and foreign journals. He was in charge of research projects funded by the Ministry of the University (PRIN), the University of Pisa (PRA) and foreign public and private bodies, and is responsible of an agreement with the Institute of Computational Linguistics (ILC) of the CNR. He was a reviewer and evaluator for MIUR and ANVUR.

His scientific activities have resulted in more than 160 publications, including about fifteen monographs and handbooks, several papers and volume contributions in Italian, English, Spanish and French.