Anna di Robilant

Anna di Robilant

Professor of Law

Law Alumni Scholar

LLB, University of Torino School of Law
LLM, Harvard Law School
PhD, University of Trento (Italy)
SJD, Harvard Law School


Biography

Professor Anna di Robilant is a property law scholar trained in both Europe and the United States. She writes and teaches in the areas of property law, property theory, legal history, and comparative law. Professor di Robilant has published extensively in both peer-reviewed and student-edited journals, including the Vanderbilt Law Review, the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Boston University Law Review, the Hastings Law Journal and the McGill Law Journal. Professor di Robilant’s book, The Making of Modern Property. Reinventing Roman Law in Bourgeois Europe and its Periphery will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. Professor di Robilant is the chair of the property section of the “Common Core of European Private Law,” a project that brings together more than 200 legal scholars and practitioners to analyze and map the connections and underlying similarities in contract, property, and torts laws across Europe. Professor di Robilant received her JD from the University of Torino, Italy; her PhD in Comparative Private Law from the University of Trento, Italy, and her LLM and SJD from Harvard Law School.

Professor di Robilant’s scholarly papers are available on her SSRN page.

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  • Anna di Robilant, The Making of Modern Property: Reinventing Roman Law in Nineteenth Century Europe and its Periphery (2023)
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  • Anna di Robilant & Talha Syed, The Fundamental Building Blocks of Social Relations Regarding Resources: Hohfeld in Europe and Beyond, in No. 18-07 Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later: Edited Work, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries (Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Ted M. Sichelman, and Henry E. Smith,2022)
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  • Anna di Robilant, Property's Building Blocks: Hohfeld in Europe and Beyond, in Wesley Hohfeld A Century Later: Edited Work, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries (2022)
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  • Anna di Robilant, Populist Property Law 49 Connecticut Law Review (2017)
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  • Anna di Robilant, A Research Agenda for the History of Property Law in Europe, Inspired by and Dedicated to Marc Poirier 47 Seton Hall Law Review (2017)
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  • Anna di Robilant, John Witte Jr. & Sara McDougall, Texts and Contexts in Legal History: Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue (2016)
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  • Anna di Robilant, Big Questions Comparative Law 96 Boston University Law Review (2016)
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  • Anna di Robilant, Abuse of Rights: The Continental Drug and the Common Law Boston University School of Law Public Law Research Paper (2014)
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  • Anna di Robilant, Property and Democratic Deliberation: The Numerus Clausus Principle and Democratic Experimentalism in Property Law 62 American Journal of Comparative Law (2014)
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  • Anna di Robilant, Property and Deliberation: A New Type of Common Ownership, in Protecting Future Generations Through the Commons (2014)
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  • Anna di Robilant, Property: A Bundle of Sticks or a Tree? 66 Vanderbilt Law Review (2013)
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  • Anna di Robilant, Common Ownership and Equality of Autonomy 58 McGill Law Journal (2012)
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  • Anna di Robilant, Virtues of Common Ownership 91 Boston University Law Review (2011)
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  • Anna di Robilant, Abuse of Rights: The Continental Drug and the Common Law 61 Hastings Law Journal (2010)
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  • Anna di Robilant, Genealogies of Soft Law 54 American Journal of Comparative Law (2006)
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  • Anna di Robilant & Fernanda Nicola, Il liberalismo alle prese con identità e redistribuzione: le critiche al 'rights discourse' da parte della sinistra americana. 22 Rivista critica del diritto privato (2004)
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  • Anna di Robilant, Scuole e Movimenti Post Realisti negli Stati Uniti d'America Novissimo Digesto: Appendice (2004)
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  • Anna di Robilant & Ugo Mattei, The Art and Science of Critical Scholarship: Postmodernism and International Style in the Legal Architecture of Europe 75 Tulane Law Review (2001)
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  • Anna di Robilant, Non soltanto parole. In margine ad alcuni itinerari in "Law and Art" 31 Materiali per una storia della cultura giuridica (2001)
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