Professoressa ordinaria di Diritto privato al Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza
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Enza Pellecchia was born in Ferrara and grew up in Brindisi. She graduated with honours in Law at the University of Pisa in 1987 and was awarded the PhD degree in Private Law in 1993. She was student of Professor Lina Bigliazzi Geri. Professor Pellecchia was researcher and then associate professor of private law at the Department of Law at the University of Pisa, where she is a full professor and a member of the PhD Council in Legal Sciences. She worked as a lawyer in Milan. She attends and collaborates with Labodif, a research and training institute for the enhancement of differences founded by Giovanna Galletti and Gianna Mazzini.

Institutional assignments

From 2005 to 2010 Professor Pellecchia directed the Centre for Human Rights in Pisa; from 2010 to 2016 she was Vice-Director and then (from 2016 to 2022) Director of the CISP –Interdisciplinary Centre “Science for Peace”  at the University of Pisa// From 2018 to 2020 she was the University representative of the board “Education to sustainability” within the framework of the Italian University Network for Sustainable Development (RUS). Since 2019 she has been the University representative of Network of Italian Universities for Peace (RUniPace) promoted by the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI), and national coordinator since 2020. Since 2022 she has been Director of the Master’s Degree Programme in Law, where she coordinates special projects for teaching. 

Scientific and teaching activities

Professor Enza Pellecchia has carried out an intensive teaching activity, initially at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Pisa (from a.y. 1999-2000 to 2007-2008, Institutions of Private Law course), afterwards in the degree programme in Science for Peace (from a. y. 2001-2002 to 2010-2011, teaching Elements of Private Law and Third Sector Law) and finally at the Department of Law, where she taught Private Law II, Private Law of Economics, Common Goods Law and, since the academic year 2018-2019, she has been teaching Private Law I.

Her research activities include several different topics that always focus on the person and range from personal rights (especially, the right to health and personal data protection), property (private property, collective property, commons), social and economic vulnerability (access to credit, banking and financial exclusion, over-indebtedness), and general law of obligations.

She is the author of two monographs and about one hundred contributions in scientific journals of class A and in miscellanies.

Since 2016 she has been a member of the Publishing Board of the Sciences for Peace Series of Pisa University Press (https://cisp.unipi.it/ricerca/collana-scienze-per-la-pace/)

Since 2021 she has been Scientific Secretary of the International Security and Arms Control Group (SICA) of the Accademia dei Lincei (https://www.lincei.it/it/sica)

Since 2022 she has been a member of the Scientific Council of USPID-Union of Scientists for Disarmament (https://www.uspid.org/OrganiDellUSPID.html)

Third mission activities

Among her many third mission activities, the most noteworthy is the organization and coordination of major events over several days and multiple locations, involving many departments as well as associations and organizations in the area: Pisa città per la pace e per i diritti umani (April 15-30, 2005, with publication in  2006, in the series Scienze per la pace of Pisa University Press, of the volume Diritti, tolleranza, memoria); Cibo e conflitti (November 7-16, 2008, with publication in 2010, in the same series, of the volume of the same name); Pisa non dimentica Hiroshima e Nagasaki (November 12-24, 2015, with publication in 2017, again in the same series, of the volume Per un mondo libero da armi nucleari).