Francesca Fiorentini is associate professor of Private Comparative Law. She is former Research Associate at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationals Privatrecht of Hamburg and former Marie Curie Fellow at the Zentrum für Europäisches Rechtspolitik of the University of Bremen. She has authored a book on Secured Transactions over Immovable Property in European Law, co-edited many books and published articles and essays on comparative property law and comparative cultural heritage law. She has co-directed an international research project financed by the European Union (ERA-NET PLUS - Horizon 2020) entitled "The Right to Cultural Heritage - Its Protection and Enforcement Through Cooperation in the European Union". She is a member of "The 1995 UNIDROIT Academic Project" aimed at the spreading around the world the culture of heritage proctection by promoting states' adoption of the UNIDORIT Convention on stolen or illegally exported cultural property.
