Alfonso Luis Calvo Caravaca

Alfonso-Luis Calvo Caravaca studied law at the University of Murcia (LLM, Extraordinary Award, 1976) and at the University of Bologna (PhD, Vittorio Emanuele II Award, 1978). He has been Professor of Private International Law at the University Carlos III of Madrid since 1992. He was formerly Professor of Private International law at the University Autónoma of Madrid and at the University of Murcia, and visiting professor at São Paulo State University (1993), at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, D.F. (2001), and at the School of Law of the University of Bologna (2012). Since 2009 he has been co-director of Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional (CDT), which is published by the University Carlos III in Madrid, and, since 2005, he has been a Permanent Member of the General Codification Commission (Civil section) at the Spanish Ministry of Justice. He is a member of Hamburger Freunde des Max Planck Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht since 1988, a Fellow of the European Law Institute since 2012 and a titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) since 2015. He is author, co-author, editor or co-editor of about three hundred publications in the fields of private international law, EU antitrust law and international commercial law, notable of which include Derecho Internacional Privado, Volume 1 and Derecho Internacional Privado, Volume 2 (both with Javier Carrascosa González), now in their 15th edition.