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Marco Farina was a student at the Almo Collegio Borromeo<\/strong> in Pavia and the Institute for Advanced Study (IUSS)<\/strong> of Pavia, graduating with honors in Law in 2012 with a thesis in private law titled “Remedial Profiles of Partial Invalidity.<\/em>” In 2013, he also earned the IUSS diploma with honors, specializing in Social Sciences, with a thesis on “The Court\u2019s Power to Declare Contractual Nullity Ex Officio: Substantive and Procedural Limits<\/em>.”<\/p>\n In 2016, he completed his Ph.D. in Civil Law<\/strong> at the University of Genoa with a thesis on “Contractual Autonomy and Preliminary Contracts.<\/em>” During his doctoral studies, he spent several research periods abroad, including six months as a visiting scholar and grantee at the Max Planck Institute<\/em><\/strong> in Hamburg, where he conducted a comparative analysis on his thesis subject.<\/p>\n In 2018, he was a research fellow at the University of Brescia, and from 2019 to 2022, he served as a fixed-term researcher (RTD-A) in Private Law at the Department of Private Law and Legal History at the University of Milan. Since February 2023, he has been a fixed-term researcher (RTD-B) in Private Law at the same department where, starting from February 2026, he is Associate Professor <\/strong>of Private Law. At the University of Milan, he teaches, among other courses, “Notarial Law and Practice” and “Legal Aspects of Generational Transition.”<\/p>\n His academic interests focus primarily on contract law, family law, and inheritance law.<\/p>\n He is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on civil and commercial law and is a member of the editorial boards of prominent legal journals, including Persona e Mercato<\/em>, Diritto delle Successioni e della Famiglia<\/em>, and Rassegna di Diritto Civile<\/em>.<\/p>\n He is also affiliated with several scholarly associations, such as the Italian Society of Civil Law Scholars<\/strong>, the Italian Civil Lawyers’ Association<\/strong>, and the Italian Association of Notaries and Academics<\/strong>.<\/p>\n