Partner · Emeritus Professor of Private Law

Salvatore Patti

Civil and commercial law, informed by scholarship and an international perspective.

Professional background

Salvatore Patti is Emeritus Professor of Private Law at Sapienza University of Rome. He has practiced law since 1974, has been authorized to appear before the Italian Court of Cassation since 1987, and is a member of the Munich Bar. His practice encompasses the principal areas of civil and commercial law.

Before joining Sapienza, he taught at the Universities of Sassari and Trieste, and subsequently taught civil law at Bocconi University. He has held visiting professorships at Stanford, Yale, Zurich, Freiburg, and Bochum, and received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, DAAD, the British Academy, and the German-American Fulbright Commission.

He has written more than four hundred publications and spoken at over three hundred conferences. His editorial work spans Italian and German law journals. He also coordinated translations of the German Civil Code, the Italian Civil Code, and the German Code of Civil Procedure, published by Giuffrè and Beck in collaboration with Italian and German scholars.

His memberships include the International Academy of Comparative Law, the Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung, and the Association Henri Capitant. He was appointed Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana in 1978 and received the German Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, in 2002 for his contribution to German-Italian legal relations.