Boston University School of Law

Daniela Caruso

Professional Experience

Boston University School of Law
Professor of Law, (2007-present)
Associate Professor of Law, (1997-2006)
Lecturer, (1994 to 1996)
Courses: Contracts, European Union Law, Education Law, Disability Law, Autism and Society

Harvard University
Visiting Professor and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, (Spring 2008)
Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, (Fall 2007)

University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, Oklahoma
Visiting Professor, (Spring 1993)

Il Foro Italiano Law Review, Rome, Italy
Author and Editing Assistant, (1987-1991)

Community Service And Activities

Massachusetts Department of Education
Special Education Planning and Policy Development
Member of Workgroup on Autism, December 2003

Harvard Law School Graduate Program
SJD Candidates’ and/or Visiting Scholars’ Advisor for the Field of European Law, 2003 –

Harvard Law School European Law Research Center
Member of Academic Council, since 2004
Senior Fellow, 2004-2005
Chair of EU Private Law Speaker Series, Spring 2004 - Spring 2005.

Education

University of Florence, Italy
Doctorate in Comparative Law, 1992

Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
LL.M., June 1990

University of Bari, Italy
LL.B. summa cum laude, March 1987
Teaching and Research Assistant
Department of Private and Comparative Law, 1987-91

University of Cambridge, UK
Certificate of Proficiency in English, June 1981

Awards

BU Law Class of 2005’s Legacy Gift (two certificates of students’ appreciation) 2005

Senior Fellowship, European Law Research Center, Harvard Law School, 2004-2005

Fellowship, National Committee of Research, Italy, 1989

(individual grant for independent research)

Fellowship, National Department of Education, Italy,1988
(individual grant for independent research)

Best Private Law Thesis, University of Bari, Italy, 1987

Selected Presentations And Lectures

Guest Lecturer, Human Rights in the European Union, Human Rights Seminar (taught by Prof. Susan Akram), Boston University School of Law, March 16, 2004

Invited Lecture at the Harvard International Law Journal’s Symposium on Diffusion of Law in the 21st Century, Harvard Law School, March 4, 2006

Private Law and State-Making in the Age of Globalization, Faculty Workshop, Boston University School of Law, November 17, 2005

Discussant, Conference on “Comparing Separations: State and Religion in France and in the united States,” Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, December 9 - 10, 2005

Guest Lecturer, Asylum Law in the European Union, Asylum and Refugee Law Seminar (taught by Prof. Susan Akram), Boston University School of Law, April 14, 2005

Panelist, Conference on the Relationship between the Modes of Legal Rationality and the Contexts of Production of Legal Discourse, European Law Research Center of Harvard Law School and Institut Rene Demogue, Université de Lille, April 8-10, 2005 at Harvard Law School

Moderator, Comparative Contracts Panel, Boston University School of Law, March 30, 2005

Moderator, Talk by Professor Joseph Weiler on the European Constitution ,Boston University School of Law, March 29, 2005

Roundtable Speaker, Harvard International Law Journal Conference on Comparative Visions of Global Public Order, Harvard Law School, March 5-6, 2005

Moot Court Judge, European Law Moot Court Competition, Semifinal Session, New York University, February 28, 2005

Panelist, Video-Conference on European Constitution (Harvard and Real Colegio Complutense, Madrid) February 4, 2005

Discussant, Workshop on Legal Education and Legal Reasoning, European Law Research Center, Harvard Law School, December 10, 2004

Guest Lecturer, Legal Integration in the European Union, Comparative Law Seminar (taught by Prof. Louis Aucoin), Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, December 2004

Discussant, Lochner Centennial Conference, Boston University School of Law, October 15-16, 2004

Chair, Speaker Series in European Private Law, European Law Research Center, Harvard Law School, 2004-2005
(March 30, 2004 with Hugh Collins and Christian Joerges; May 18, 2004 with Martijn Hesselink and Maria Rosaria Marella; September 24, 2004 with Pierre Legrand and Ralf Michaels; October 7, 2004 with Gunther Teubner and Robert Wai; January 25, 2005 with Silvana Sciarra; February 11, 2005 with Eleanor Fox and Roberto Pardolesi; March 7, 2005 with Joel Trachtman, Gregory Shaffer and Robert Wai)

Guest Speaker, Human Rights in the European Union, Human Rights Seminar (taught by Prof. Susan Akram), Boston University School of Law, February 19, 2004

Invited lecture, Positive (and Affirmative?) Action in the European Union, European Law Research Center, Harvard Law School, November 24, 2003

Panelist, Conference on “Rethinking Ideology & Strategy: Progressive Lawyering, Globalization and Markets,” Northeastern University Law School, November 8, 2003 (presented work in progress on the use of contractual mechanisms for the allocation of special education benefits)

Panelist, Teaching Colloquium for the Graduate Program, Harvard Law School, November 5, 2002

Lecture: From Coal To Gold: The European Path to Monetary Union, Boston University Banking Law Program, September 19, 2002

Presentation: Legal Antiformalism in Italy, Conference on Globalization of Legal Thought 1850-2000, Harvard Law School, April 13-14, 2002

Panelist, Colloquium on Globalization of Legal Thought, Harvard Law School, December 8, 2001

Panelist, Colloquium on Structural Bias and Identity in International and Comparative Law, Harvard Law School, April 14-15, 2000

Invited lecture, Comparative Methodologies and European Integration, University of Torino
Faculty of Law, Italy, July 1st, 1999

Panelist, Colloquium on Legal Anti-Formalism, Harvard Law School, European Law Research Center, April 16, 1999

Invited Talk, European Private Law and Constitutionalism
European University Institute, Florence, Workshop on Constitutionalism and Private Law, May 22-24, 1997

Panelist, Plenary Session, Conference on “New Approaches to International Law”, Harvard Law School, May 11, 1997

Panelist, Plenary Session, Conference on Private Law Theory, Harvard Law School, Graduate Division, March 9-10, 1997

Discussant of Professor T. Ulen, Siena, May 12-13, 1996, Conference on Law & Econ. of Federalism

Comment, Critical Notes on “The Common Core of European Private Law”
Common Core Project, University of Trento, Italy, July 7, 1995

Lecture, Abortion and Free Trade in the European Community
University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman, Oklahoma, April 1993

Comment, Products Liability, State-of-the-Art Defense and Pharmaceutical Products
Scuola Superiore Studi Giuridici S. Anna, Pisa, Italy, May 1988

Publications

"(Presidential) Powers in the European Union," 88 Boston University Law Review 561 (2008). 

"Contract Law and Distribution in the Age of Welfare Reform," 49 Arizona Law Review 665 (2007). 

"Private Law and State Making in the Age of Globalization," 39 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics 1 (2006). 

"Bargaining and Distribution in Special Education," 14 Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 171 (2005). 

"Lochner in Europe: A Comment on Keith Whittington's ‘Congress Before the Lochner Era’," 85 Boston University Law Review 867 (2005). 

"Private Law and Public Stakes in European Integration: The Case of Property," 10 European Law Journal 751 (2004). 

"Limits of the Classic Method: Positive Action in the European Union After the New Equality Directives," 44 Harvard International Law Journal 331 (2003). 

Culpa in Contrahendo, Giuffre (1993).