Lecturer
Dottore in Giurisprudenza (Roma La Sapienza), MJur (Oxford), DPhil (Oxford)

Email: carla.crifo@le.ac.uk
Telephone: 0116 252 2360

After graduating from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, Carla Crifò spent one year partly in legal training and partly at the Centre for the Study of Foreign and Comparative Law at UNIDROIT, in Rome. Her research has been focused on comparative and international aspects of civil procedure: her doctorate was on default judgment in England and contumacia in Italy and has written a monograph on the European Enforcement Order and other procedures for the enforcement of debts in 5 European jurisdictions.

She is Assistant Editor and book reviews editor for the Civil Justice Quarterly (Sweet & Maxwell) and a member of the International Association of Procedural Law.

At Leicester she teaches Civil Justice System, Equity and Trusts and Conflict of Laws (both undergraduate and postgraduate). She is currently working on the introduction of a module on the English law of civil procedure for the LLB.

Dr Crifò will be spending 2010-11 as a Research Scholar at Northeastern University, funded by the Fulbright Commission and the Leverhulme Trust. During her tenure, she will be carrying out a research project on comparative perspectives on procedural formalism, and also assessing the teaching of civil procedure in North American law schools.

Research Interests

Civil Procedure, Comparative law, Legal History.

Selected Publications

• ‘Why teach civil procedural law?’ (2010) Revista de Processo (*in press)
• ‘Civil Procedure in the European Order: an Overview of the Latest Developments’ in D. Dwyer (ed.), The Civil Procedure Rules. Ten Years On (Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 373-413
• C Crifò Cross-Border Enforcement of Debts in the EU (Kluwer Law International, London, 2009).
• C Crifò “The Creation of the Default Judgment in the 19th Century English Procedural Reforms” in Proceedings of the 2005 British Legal History Conference (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2006), p. 181–205.
• C Crifò “First steps towards the harmonisation of civil procedure: The Regulation Creating A European Enforcement Order For Uncontested Claims” (2005) Civil Justice Quarterly 24 (April) p. 200–223
• C Crifò “La riforma del processo civile in Inghilterra” in Riv Trim Dir Proc Civ 2/2000, 511.