Remo Caponi

Remo Caponi was born in Cortona (Arezzo, Italy) in 1960.  He is a judge at the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di cassazione), a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a member of the Presidium of the International Association of Procedural Law, a founding member of the European Law Institute, a former professor of Civil Procedure at the School of Law of the University of Florence. He got this position in 1998, after obtaining a Law Degree at the University of Florence in 1984, a PhD at the University of Bologna in 1989, a Großes Deutsches Sprachdiplom at the Goethe Institut in 1992, and a researcher position (ricercatore) at the University of Florence (1991-1998). He was a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute, a visiting professor at the University of Heidelberg (2014-2015), a Senior Hauser Global Research Fellow at the New York University (2014-2015). He taught Civil Procedure at the Faculty of Law of the University of Siena (1995-2000) and Transnational Contracts and Litigation at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Siena (1995-2009). He was Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bielefeld 1(989-1991) while teaching Introduction to Italian Law.  He was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Law Institute (2013-2017). He was a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board (Fachbeirat) of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. He was a member of the Board of the Trustees of the Academy of European Law, a member of the Board of the Directors of the Italian Association of Procedural Law. He has served as a reporter for the European Commission and the European Parliament in studying and evaluating aspects of the European law of civil procedure and insolvency.  He was a member of the Steering Committee supervising the ELI UNIDROIT joint project on Model European Rules of Civil Procedure, published in 2021 (OUP). He has authored 4 books and about 200 papers in Italian, English and German, now collected in Dogmatica giuridica e vita. Studi di giustizia civile, 2 voll., Milano, 2022. A number of his works have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Hungarian. His main research interests are in the field of civil procedure, comparative civil procedure, private law, constitutional law and international law. He speaks Italian (his mother tongue), German, and English. He also reads French, Spanish, and Portuguese.