Giacomo Oberto

Giacomo OBERTO was born in Savigliano (Italy) in 1956 and graduated summa cum laude at the Law Faculty of the Turin (Torino) University in 1980. He is a Family Law scholar and since 1980 he has been conducting studies and research in several fields of Private Law. He is an author of several books dealing with topics related to Italian Family Law, as well as more than three hundred articles and studies (in Italian, French, English and German) devoted to Private Law, Comparative Law, Civil Procedure and the Judicial System. He was admitted to the Turin Bar in 1982; the following year he passed the competitive examination in Rome to become a judge, where he was ranked first in the national applicant list. He has been a judge at the Civil Court of Turin since 1984, where he deals with civil and commercial law cases. In 1988 he received a doctorate in private law. In 1997 he became a judge of the Court of Appeal and in 2004 a judge of the Supreme Court of Cassation.