Gender Perspectives in Private Law

Gabriele Carapezza Figlia is Full Professor of Civil Law and Head of the Department of Law, University LUMSA. Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Law at the University of Sannio, under the guidance of Prof. Pietro Perlingieri (2007), he currently holds the Chair of “Civil Law” and “Comparative Law” at the Department of Law, University LUMSA. He is member of the Commission for National Scientific Qualification (ASN 2021-2023) and lay member of the Judicial Council of the Court of Appeal of Palermo. He is also Ordinary Member of numerous italian and foreign Academies and Research Centers, including: Italian Society of Civil Law Scholars (SISDiC); Italian Society for Research in Comparative Law (SIRD); Society of European Contract Law (SECOLA); Instituto de Derecho Iberoamericano; Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos de Responsabilidade Civil (IBERC). He has been teaching and planning lectures and seminars for various Italian and European Universities. Author of various monographs, articles and essays published in Italy and abroad, his monography “Divieto di discriminazione e autonomia contrattuale” was awarded as the best monographic work on Civil law published in 2013 by the SISDiC. He is member of the Scientific Board of many italian and foreing scientific reviews; member of various Research Projects financed by the European Union, the Italian Ministry for Research and the Spanish Ministry for Research and scientific responsible of several research projects. He has participated as a speaker at numerous conferences, scientific seminars and workshops in Italy and abroad. His actual research activity mainly focuses on property law, non-discrimination law, persons and family law.Ljubinka Kovačević is a Full Professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law. Prior to joining this Faculty in 2005, she was a researcher at the Institute of Comparative Law in Belgrade. Currently, she is teaching the following courses: Labour law; International labour law;Social security law; Labour and social law in the EU – human rights aspects; Sources of labour law. She is the author of three monographs ("Legal Subordination in Employment Relationship and Its Limitations" /2013/, "Valid Reasons for Dismissal" /2016/ and "Entering into Employment Relationship" /2021/) and many papers on Serbian, international and comparative labour law.Eleonor Kristofersson is since 2010 a Full Professor in Law at Örebro University in Sweden. Since 2009 she is a teacher at Salzburg University’s summer school in comparative and international private law. Her main research focus is tax law, but she has also publications in private law, and teach both tax law and private law. She has a broad interdisciplinary experience and is coordinating the research schools on ageing research at Örebro University.

• Gender Issues in Private International Law.- The Reproduction of Gender Difference and Heteronormativity in Family Law.- Family Matters: Gender, Community and Personal Laws in India.- Compensation for Damages Suffered by Women Performing Unpaid Domestic Work.- The Best Interests of the Child and Gender Perspective.- Gender Perspective of Development of Labour Law.- Leading or Breeding; Looking Ahead – Gender Segregation in the Labour Market and the Equal Distribution of Family Responsibilities.- Legal Approaches to Protection Against Gender-Based Violence and Harassment at Work with a Particular Focus on the Situation in the Republic of North Macedonia.- Digital Work and Gender Equality.- Gender Discrimination: Procedural Issues Between Procedural Autonomy, EU Provisions and Effectiveness of Judicial Protection.- Gender Perspectives in Mediation.

“This book marks a turning point in the trend, as it offers a mainly European– in the sense that will be explained later – but still plural perspective on private law and gender intersections, without forgetting the great debt to American contributions. … it also offers it with an approach that aims to be exhaustive, i.e., to cover all the sensitive issues, at least from the standpoint of private law.” (Letizia Coppo, Analysis PFB, Issue 3, 2023)