Professor Stefano Zunarelli is one of the most renowned European academics in the field of transportation law, air law and maritime law. He has always been accustomed to international contexts and, aside from teaching at the University of Bologna, he has taught, as visiting Professor, at many foreign universities.

He has participated – on behalf of the Italian Government – in the work of the international organizations of his area of expertise (UN, IMO, UNCITRAL and UNCTAD), by contributing to the drafting of several international Conventions in the maritime and transportation fields, as well as in several working groups established by the European Commission. He has also taken active part in the modernization process of the Italian transportation laws in his capacity as advisor to the Italian Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport and as advisor to several regional and local governments.

Professor Zunarelli is director of the reviews Rivista Italiana di Diritto del turismo and of the review series Seminari del Master in Diritto ed Economia dei Trasporti e della Logistica e del Dottorato di Ricerca in Diritto dei Trasporti Europeo, and co-director of the review series Diritto e pratica dei trasporti. He is member of the editorial board of Journal of International Maritime Law, Revista de Derecho del Transporte” and “European Journal of Commercial Contract Law. Among his publications, Manuale di diritto della navigazione e dei Trasporti (together with M. Comenale Pinto, 2009), Lezioni di Diritto dei Trasporti (2006).