Passanante, Luca

Full professor of civil procedure at the University of Brescia, where he teaches Civil Procedure, Comparative Civil Justice and ADR. PhD from University of Bologna (Italy), he was visiting scholar in Edinburgh, Cambridge and Oxford. He is lecturer at the Higher School of the Judiciary in Italy and has been speaker at various seminars and congresses in Italy and abroad.

He’s a member of the Associazione Italiana tra gli Studiosi del Processo Civile, of the International Association of Procedural Law, of the Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Processual and of the Italian British Law Association.

He wrote three books and several articles on civil procedure and evidence. Among others: Dell’assunzione dei mezzi di prova in generale, in Taruffo (a cura di), Istruzione probatoria (Zanichelli, 2014); La prova illecita nel processo civile (Giappichelli, 2017); Illegaly obtained evidence in civil procedure: a comparative perspective, in Evidence in the process (Atelier, 2018); Per la difesa dell’onere della prova, in Saccoccio-Cacace (a cura di), Europa e America Latina. Due continenti, un solo diritto (Giappichelli–Editorial Tirant Lo Blanch, 2020).