Antonio Saccoccio

Of Counsel

Office: Rome

Languages: Italian, English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese

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Biography

Born in Rome in 1967, Professor Antonio Saccoccio serves as Full Professor of Roman Law at Sapienza University of Rome. He graduated summa cum laude in Law from the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ with an invitation to pursue advanced studies, and obtained his Ph.D. in Roman Law and Laws of the Eastern Mediterranean from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’.

He has held positions as Full Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor at the University of Brescia, where he also served as Department Director and member of the Academic Senate. He previously worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’.

Professor Saccoccio participates in the national project for the translation of Justinian’s Digesta and currently serves as co-editor of the Italian edition (Giuffrè, Milan).

He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Roma e America. Diritto romano comune, serves on the editorial board of Bullettino dell’Istituto di diritto romano (BIDR), and is a member of numerous international scientific committees.

He has organized and participated in multiple international Summer Schools and has delivered lectures and presentations in over 15 countries, including Argentina, China, Peru, Germany, and Switzerland.

Professor Saccoccio regularly participates in international academic conferences and serves as a peer reviewer for legal journals and academic series.

Publications

  • Osservazioni sparse in tema di servitù tra storia e dogmatica. Per una rilettura delle norme cinesi, in Roma e America. Diritto romano comune, 39/2018, 97-120;
  • 历史和教义中的地役权:兼及对中国法的评析 (Le servitù nella Legge cinese sui diritti reali), in 马法,中国法与民法法典化。二十一世纪民法典的科学体系 (Diritto romano, diritto cinese e codificazione del diritto civile. Il sistema scientifico dei codici civili del XXI secolo), a cura di S. Schipani-Fei Anling, Pechino, 2020, 389-406; ISBN 978-7-5620-9581-1;
  • Europa y América Latina: dos continentes, un solo derecho, in Europa e America Latina. Due continenti, un solo diritto. Unità e specificità del sistema giuridico latinoamericano, a cura di A. Saccoccio e S. Cacace, I, Torino, 2020, 1-20.
  • Il mutuo nel sistema giuridico romanistico. Profili di consensualità nel mutuo reale, Giappichelli, Torino, 2020.
  • Sostenibilità e libertà tra beni comuni e azioni popolari, in Pandemia e diritto delle persone – Pandemia y derecho de las personas, a cura di R. Marini, Padova, CEDAM, 2021, 263-304, ISBN 9788813376680.
  • Morte e rinascita del contratto reale, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2021.
  • La dittatura: una magistratura cancellata. Considerazioni minime tra antico e moderno, in Diritto&Storia, 19, 2022, ISSN 1825-0300;
  • Periculum evictionis: una figura intermedia tra garanzia per evizione e garanzia per i vizi?, in Roma e America. Diritto romano comune, 43, 2022, pp. 51-78.
  • Lagunas, Principios y reglas y normas. Derecho romano y Códigos civiles, Panamá, 2023.
  • Codice civile cinese e sistema giuridico romanistico (a cura di), Modena, 2021.
  • Iustiniani Augusti Digesta seu Pandectae (a cura di), voll. V/1, V/2, VI/1, Giuffrè, Giappichelli, Pisa University Press 2014; 2021; 2025.

Areas of Business

– Roman law 
– Civil law
– Romanistic tradition and codification
– Legal comparison (Europe, Latin America, China)
– Legal translation and Latin law

Associations