Vice-Rector for Student Life and Support

Graduated cum laude in 1996 from the Faculty of Law of Padova. PhD in 2002 and admitted to the Bar of Padova since December 1999. She has been a full professor of private law at the University of Padua since September 2015. She is currently in charge of the course of "Institutions of Private Law 2" and the course of "Law and practice of contracts" in the course track of the Second-cycle/Master's degree in Law.

She spent several periods of specialization abroad, in particular at the Universities of Heidelberg (2001), Cambridge (2004) and Paris II - Panthéon Assas (2009).

She teaches civil law at the Faculty of Law of the Leopold Franzens-Universität-Innsbruck. She is responsible for the internationalization of the School of Law as well as a double degree syllabus in Law with the University Paris II, Panthéon-Assas. At that University she held a course in Introduction au droit privé italien.

She is a member of the Association Henri Capitant pour la Culture Juridique Française and a fellow of the European Law Institute (ELI).

She is a member of the Italian Civil Lawyers Association and the Italian Society of Civil Law Scholars.

She is a member of the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Civil Law.

She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Galilean School of Advanced Studies of the University of Padua.

She currently chairs the Disciplinary Board of the University of Padova.

She is the author of about seventy essays in which she has dealt with the problems related to the pathology of the legal transaction with particular attention to contractual dynamics, becoming a reference scholar in the field. In her most recent work, she has dealt specifically with the invalidity of banking contracts. She has dedicated some works to fraud and collection in wills, taking up and continuing the reflections of Alberto Trabucchi, then broadening her interests to the study of the law of vulnerable people in general. She is also the author of two monographic works: The nullity of protection in the system of contractual invalidity (for a theory of modern relative nullity) (Cedam 2008, pp. IV-465) and The artifice of the cause contractus (Cedam 2012, pp. VII-236). She collaborates on a regular basis in the elaboration, revision and updating of widely distributed works.