Laura Castelvetri - The University of Insubria

Laura Castelvetri
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Full Professor
Department of Law and Economics of Firms and Persons
VII Strada, 28 – 20090 SEGRATE MI
Tel: 003931.3305811
Fax: 003931.3305830
E-mail: laura.castelvetri@uninsubria.it
Graduated cum laude from the University of Milan with a thesis on
Employment Law concerning “The social role played by trade unions
and their normative implementation”. Recipient of a research grant and
Assistant professor at the University of Milan since 2001. Subsequent
to becoming Associate professor and beginning in April 2001, she took
on a teaching position at the University of Insubria School of Law,
where she had been substitute professor of Employment Law and
Trade Union Law since 1995. From May 2002 she has been a Full
professor at the University of Insubria School of Law, teaching Basic
and Advanced Employment Law.
Employment Law, Trade Union Law, Legal Historiography, History of
Industrial Relations
She teaches Basic Employment Law for the three-year Degree in Legal
Sciences, and of Advanced Employment Law for the two-year Law
Degree.
Head of the Degree in Science of Legal Services.
Delegate of the Rector for career orientation and tutoring
1. L. Castelvetri, Inquiries on the motives affecting business strategies
and the Workers’ Statute (IT), in Strategie di comunicazione e Statuto
dei lavoratori, edited by Pietro Ichino, Giuffrè, Milan, 1992, pp. 35-188.
2. L. Castelvetri, The beginnings of Employment Law (IT) , Collana:
Studi di diritto privato della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell’Università
degli Studi di Milano, Giuffrè, Milan, 1994, pp. I-398. (ISBN 88-14-
04996-3) Selected by the Jurists Club Panel as one of the best 12
books of 1994. Reviews by: Giuseppe Pera in RIDL, 1995, n. 1, part III,
p. 77, Mario Grandi and Severino Caprioli, above, n. 2, part III, p. 137.
3. L. Castelvetri, Contractual freedom and subordination (IT), Collana
della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell’Università degli Studi dell’Insubria,
Giuffrè, Milan, 2001, pp. 1-198. (ISBN 88-14-09308-3).
4. L. Castelvetri, Mechanisms and contents of industrial relations within
the trade union system: collective bargaining (IT), in Sindacato,
industria e Stato nel dopoguerra, edited by F. Peschiera, vol. I, Le

Monnier, Florence, 1976, pp. 375-497.
5. L. Castelvetri, Bipolar industrial relations: collective bargaining (IT),
in Sindacato, industria e Stato negli anni del centrismo, edited by F.
Peschiera, vol. II**, Le Monnier, Florence, 1979, pp. 256-339.
Reviewed by Mario Ricciardi in DLRI, 1980, p. 359.
6. L. Castelvetri, Intersind and its trade union policy (IT), in Sindacato,
industria e Stato negli anni del centrosinistra, edited by F. Peschiera,
vol. III, Le Monnier, Florence, 1983, pp. 400-428.
7. L. Castelvetri, Bipolar industrial relations: collective bargaining (IT),
in Sindacato, industria e Stato negli anni del centrosini-stra, edited by
F. Peschiera, vol. III, Le Monnier, Florence, 1983, pp. 464-528
8. L. Castelvetri, The origins of the Employment Law doctrine (IT), in
Rivista trimestrale di diritto e procedura civile, 1987, pp. 246-286.
Comments by Gino Giugni, La dottrina giuslavoristica nel 1987, DLRI,
1988, p. 756
9. L. Castelvetri, From the repression to the criminal validity of strikes: a
turning point in the liberal legal order (IT), in Rivista italiana di diritto del
lavoro, 1989, I, pp. 442-493. Comments by Gino Giugni in La dottrina
giuslavoristica nel 1989, DLRI, 1990, p. 815
10. L. Castelvetri, Collective sources of law and differentiated worker
regimes (IT), in Diritto delle relazioni industriali, 1992, n. 2
11. L. Castelvetri, Diligence and performance in claims (IT), in Diritto
delle relazioni industriali, 1993, n. 1
12. L. Castelvetri, Brief observations on Total Quality and manager
prerequisites (IT), in Diritto delle relazioni industriali, 1994, n. 2
13. L. Castelvetri, Collective bargaining and equal treatment (IT), in
Argomenti di Diritto del Lavoro, 1995, n. 2
14. L. Castelvetri, Obligation of good behaviour as external limit to
business prerogatives and to the collective management of workers’
interests (IT), dedicated to Studi in onore di Gustavo Minervini, in
Rivista Italiana di Diritto del Lavoro, 1995, I
15. L. Castelvetri, Employment flexibility and the purposes of
employment law rules (IT), dedicated to Studi in onore di Koichiro
Yamaguchi, Giuffrè, Milan, 1996
16. L. Castelvetri, A new theoretical perspective for business purposes
(IT), in Argomenti di diritto del lavoro, 1997, n. 6
17. L. Castelvetri, Employment law and privacy: consequences on the
collection of trade union contributions (IT), in Diritto delle rela-zioni
industriali, 1997, n. 3
18. L. Castelvetri, The development of interpretation rules on collective
agreements in case law and in doctrine (IT), in I Saggi di NGL, n. 1,

1999: A.A.V.V., L'interpretazione del contratto collettivo.
19. L. Castelvetri, Employment contract and Total Quality (IT), in
Rivista giuridica del lavoro e della previdenza sociale, 1998, n. 3
20. L. Castelvetri, Positive law and legal historiography (IT) , in Rivista
giuridica del lavoro e della previdenza sociale, 1999, n. 3
21. L. Castelvetri, Workforce cutback and the “principle of
rationality” (IT), in Massimario di Giurisprudenza del Lavoro, 1999, n. 8-
9.
22. L. Castelvetri, Negiotiating criteria for selection in workforce cutback
(IT), in Studi in onore di Massimo D’Antona, 2000 and in Rivista Italiana
di Diritto del Lavoro, 2000, parte I
23. L. Castelvetri, Rules and collective bargaining regulating business
transfers (IT), in Rivista giuridica del lavoro, 2000, II
24. L. Castelvetri, Good behaviour and good faith in employment law
cases: doctrinal criticism and suggestions (IT), in Diritto delle relazioni
industriali, 2001, n. 2
25. L. Castelvetri, Why do we (still) discuss about employment contract
and relation as alternatives? (IT), in Diritto delle relazioni industriali,
2002, n. 3
26. L. Castelvetri, Barassi and the liberal ideology, in RIDL, 2002, n. 3,
I, as well as in the Works from the Conference La nascita del diritto del
lavoro. “Il contratto di lavoro” di Lodovico Barassi cent’anni dopo.
Novità, influssi, distanze, edited by Mario Napoli, Vita e Pensiero,
Milan, 2003 (ISBN 88-343-0928-6).
27. L. Castelvetri, Parity of treatment and full equality of rights for
foreigners – Discrimination on grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality or
religion- Civil action against discrimination (IT), in G. Dondi (edited by),
Il lavoro degli immigrati, collana Leggi e Lavoro, F. Carinci editor, vol.
VI, Milan, 2003.
28. L. Castelvetri, “Single project employment” (IT), in La riforma Biagi
del mercato del lavoro, edited by M. Tiraboschi, Giuffrè, Milan, 2004,
29. L. Castelvetri, Definition of “single project employment” (IT),
dedicated to the works in honour of Mattia Persiani, Cedam, 2005
30. L. Castelvetri, Commented Italian Civil Code (IT), edited by Guido
Alpa and Vincenzo Mariconda, BOOK V ON EMPLOYMENT, sub art.
2086, IPSOA, Milan, 2005.