Ugo Mattei

Who is Ugo Mattei?

Ugo Mattei is the Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in San Francisco, California and a full Professor of Civil Law in the University of Turin, Italy. He is the Academic Coordinator of the International University College of Turin, Italy, a radically new school where issues of law and finance in global capitalism are critically approached. He is also currently a columnist for the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto.

Mattei was born in Turin, Italy, in 1961. He graduated first in his class in 1983 from the Law School of the University of Turin and he received his LL.M. from Boalt Hall in 1989 where he was a Fulbright Fellow. He also attended the London School of Economics and the Faculté Internationale de Droit Comparé in Strasbourg.

Mattei has been a visiting scholar at Yale Law School and the Trinity College and Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, and a visiting professor at Oslo, Berkeley, Montpellier, Macau. In 1985 he joined the law school of the University of Trento as an assistant professor and he received tenure as a full professor in 1990. In Trento he taught civil law and Introduction to African Law and Institutions. In 1992 he was appointed as a professor in the Faculté Internationale de Droit Comparé, where he served for four years.