Maritime Law, Air Law and Transport Law; Maritime Insurances;
Transport Insurances; Transport Services; Public Transport of a
Local or Regional Character; Public Service Obligations and
Contracts; Off-Shore Units; Leisure Ships; Ports and Airports;
Tourist Ports; Transport Infrastructures; Port and Airport
Services; Road Transport and Haulage; Competition and State Aids;
International Trade and Incoterms; ICT services and transports; Transportation-as-a-service.
In particular, the current research topics concern mainly the International Contracts Law (e.g., international sale contract, international carriage, payment methods, insurance, agency and distributorship, factoring and forfaiting, etc.). The research subject-matters concern, in particular, the delivery obligation in the international sale and carriage, along with its effects on the regime of insurance contract and the identification of the insurable interest; the ICC Incoterms Rules and the commercial terms developed at international level in the trade, carriage and insurance sectors; the legal relationships among the different persons involved in an international trade operation under different contracts; transport documents, with particular regard to the bill of lading and the e-bill of lading; the multimodal transport contract and logistic services contracts; unexpected circumstances in shipping contracts, as shown by several articles.
Other research topics are:
- ICT services and transports; Transportation-as-a-service;
- "The emerging EU Contract Law
and the Navigation Law";
- Airport fees and airport regulated services fees;
- Rotterdam Rules;
- Incoterms;
- Anticompetitive practices within ports and airports;
- Public financing in the transport sector;
- The public financing for the construction and operation of
airport infrastructures;
- Juridical issues on project financing for the development of
transport infrastructures;
- State aids within the air transport sector;
- Port services' regime in EU and in some of its member
States;
- Ports and airports' privatisation;
- The powers of Regions on ports and airports, the new law on
ports also with reference to the Constitutional Law n. 3/2001, to
the principle of subsidiarity, to the agreements between State and
Regions and to the procedures for clear the discord between State
and Regions;
- The law concerning facilities and infrastructures for tourist
purposes and leisure navigation: trends;
- The reform of leisure navigation according to the law n. 172 of
08.07.2003;
- The regime of public transport services with a local or
regional character;
- Public service obligations and contracts within the transport
sector;
- The compulsory insurance for the maritime transport of
passengers, vehicles and baggage according to the 2002 IMO
Convention;
- The regime of off-shore platforms and units;
- The regime of haulage in some of the EU Member States;
- The reform of air transport according to the law n. 96 of
09.05.2006;
- Organisation and development of transport services and
employment of Incoterms.
