Biography

Riccardo Serafin joined the Institute for European Tort Law as a Postdoctoral Researcher in January 2026. Prior to joining the Institute, he was a Research Fellow in Private Law at the University of Turin and a Blue Book Trainee at the European Commission in Brussels.

Riccardo completed his PhD in Law at the University of Turin, where his doctoral research focused on comparative private law and he defended a thesis on “damages without loss” in English and Italian law. He also holds a Magister Juris degree from the University of Oxford, specialising in English private law, a law degree from the University of Turin, and a Certificate in Transnational Legal Studies from the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (Exchange). During his PhD, Riccardo was a visiting research student at King’s College London and at the Institute for European and Comparative Law of the University of Oxford.

He has teaching experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has, for several years, acted as a coach and arbitrator for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot.