Dr Marco Cappelletti

Marco is a Lecturer in Law at St John’s College. Prior to his current position, Marco was Junior Research Fellow at St John's.

Marco earned a DPhil in Law at St John's in 2020 under the supervision of Professor Simon Whittaker.

He also holds an M.Jur. from the University of Oxford, an LL.M. from the Harvard Law School, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and received the Dean’s Scholar Prize for academic excellence, and a five-year law degree from the University of Perugia.

Teaching

Marco teaches Tort and Contract, and has also taught Roman law.

Marco's research interests lie in private law and in comparative law.

Marco is the author of the monograph Justifying Strict Liability: A Comparative Analysis in Legal Reasoning (OUP 2022), which explores in a comparative perspective the most significant justifications that are put forward to justify strict liability in four legal systems, two common law, England and the United States, and two civil law, France and Italy. Marco's monograph has been awarded the Grand Prize of the International Academy of Comparative Law, also known as Canada Prize. The announcement was made during the General Assembly of the Academy held on 28 October 2022 in Asunción, Paraguay.

Marco's work on the role of punishment in tort law, entitled ‘Comparative Reflections on Punishment in Tort Law’ and published in Jean-Sébastien Borghetti and Simon Whittaker (eds), French Civil Liability in Comparative Perspective (Hart Publishing 2019), has been awarded the Ius Commune Prize for outstanding legal research. This work was also translated into French and published as ‘Réflexions comparatives sur le rôle de la punition en droit de la responsabilité délictuelle’ in the French Revue des contrats, issue 4, in December 2019.

Marco is the author of an article on the justifications for vicarious liability in tort law, ‘A Pluralist View of Vicarious Liability in Tort’, forthcoming in the Law Quarterly Review. He is also the co-author of a book chapter on the impact of private law (property, tort, and contract) on building safety, forthcoming in a collection of essays edited by Andrew Bell, Sue Bright, Ben McFarlane, and Andrew Robertson.

At present, Marco is also working on the concept of foreseeability in private law, both in English law and from a comparative law perspective, as well as on the relationship between fault and strict liability.

Recent Publications

M. Cappelletti, ‘A Pluralist View of Vicarious Liability in Tort’ (forthcoming in the Law Quarterly Review)

M. Cappelletti, Justifying Strict Liability: A Comparative Analysis in Legal Reasoning (OUP 2022) (awarded the Grand Prize of the International Academy of Comparative Law)

M. Cappelletti, ‘Compensatio lucri cum damno e Torts: prospettive inglesi alla luce delle quattro sentenze gemelle della Corte di Cassazione’ in Angelo Venchiarutti (ed), La compensatio lucri cum damno. Orientamenti italiani e europei a confronto (Pacini Giuridica 2020) 69

M. Cappelletti, ‘Compensatio Lucri cum Damno in Tort Law: An English Perspective on the Italian Four Judgments’ (2020) 28 European Review of Private Law 701

M. Cappelletti, ‘Réflexions comparatives sur le rôle de la punition en droit de la responsabilité délictuelle’ (2019) 116 Revue des contrats 293

M. Cappelletti, ‘Comparative Reflections on Punishment in Tort Law’ in J-S Borghetti and S Whittaker (eds), French Civil Liability in Comparative Perspective (Hart Publishing 2019) 329 (awarded the Ius Commune Prize for outstanding legal research)