Angelo DavìAngelo Davì is Professor of Private International Law and Public International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University 'La Sapienza' in Rome. He was formerly a professor in the Universities of Cagliari, Catania and Florence. He was a member of th Italian Delegation at the XVIth Session of the Hague Conference of Private International Law in 1988, when the Succession and Wills Draft Convention was adopted. He was invited in 2004 to present a report on the issue of applicable law at the Conference held in Brussels for discussing the study 'Conflict of Law of Succession in the European Union: Perspectives for a Harmonisation' made by the Deutscher Notarinstitut, upon request of the EU Commission, in view of the adoption of an EU regulation on matters of succession and wills. He is author of several monographs and articles in legal journals in the areas of private international law, public international law and European law, and author of a comprehensive commentary of the EU Succession Regulation together with Alessandra Zanobetti, published in 2014. He is a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law. His course 'Le renvoi en droit international privé contemporain', published in the Academy Collected Courses in 2012 (vol. 352), was awarded the prize for 2013 by the Italian Ministry of Culture, upon selection by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He is a member of the Italian Bar (Rome) and is admitted to practice before the Italian Supreme Court. Read More Read Less