PROF. UGO MATTEI
Academic Coordinator
International University College of Turin
Turin, ITALY
& Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International and Comparative Law
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
San Francisco, California, USA
& Full Professor of Civil Law
University of Turin,
Turin, ITALY
Areas of Expertise
Comparative Law; Private Law; International Law; Governance of the Commons
Brief Bio
Prof. Dr. Ugo Mattei is the Founder and Academic Coordinator of the International University College of Turin, the Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and a Full Professor of Civil Law at the University of Turin. For his ground-breaking studies in 2017, Prof. Mattei won the Elinor Ostrom Award for the Collective Governance of the Commons.
In 2019, he received an Honoris Causa Doctorate by the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Catholic University of Louvain. Prof. Mattei is a Full Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, a Member of the Executive Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law, a Member of the Advisory Board of the Friburg Institute of Comparative Law, an Advisor to the Institute of Law, Economics and Finances at Copenhagen Business School, a General Editor of the Series Common Core of European Private Law (Trento Project) at Cambridge University Press, a Series Editor of European Private Law in Context at Kluwer International and the Editor-in-Chief of Global Jurist. He is a Member of the Editorial Board of the International Review of Law and Economics and of New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics and Law.
Prof. Mattei has published many books and over one hundred other publications in English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Chinese. In 2015, together with ecologist and scientist Fritjof Capra, he published "The Ecology of Law. Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community" that won the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Politics/Current Events in 2016.
