Dianora Poletti passed away on April 28, 2024. Heartfelt messages of condolence arrive from all over Italy from friends and colleagues who had the opportunity to appreciate his scientific and human talents.
The University of Pisa remembers, with moving participation, her story as a scholar and teacher who, for more than forty years, saw her first as a student and then as a protagonist in the life of the University.
Dianora Poletti graduated with honors from the Faculty of Law of the University of Pisa in 1981 and continued her studies as a student of the first cycle of PhD in private law activated in Italian universities, obtaining the title of PhD in 1987 , under the guidance of Ugo Natoli and Lina Bigliazzi Geri.
She then spent her entire academic career at the University of Pisa, first as a researcher, then as an associate professor and, since 2004, as a full professor at the Faculty of Economics. In 2012 she moved to the Department of Law, where she held this position until 2022, the year in which, for outstanding merits, she was appointed by the Superior Council of the Judiciary, by decree of the President of the Republic, as advisor to the Supreme Court, first professor of the Pisan University to be called in this capacity.
Throughout his career, he has made a constant and intense commitment to serving the University. Among the numerous institutional roles, which saw her as dean of the Faculty of Economics from 2010 to 2012 and member of the Academic Senate and of the University Teaching Commission, the role of president of the Quality Committee from 2013 to 2019 stands out: in this capacity she carried out, with great commitment and competence, the necessary preparatory activities for the Anvur visit. His abilities were appreciated by the MIUR which appointed her as an expert evaluator and included her in the national short list of 15 Anvur teachers for the selection of the Board of Directors. Finally, her activity as Coordinator of the Working Group for the drafting of the 2018-2020 Strategic Plan was of great importance for the life of the University. For this commitment to serving the University you were awarded the Order of the Cherubim on March 27th.
For the Department of Law she was, among other things, president of the Detect (Interdepartmental Research Center in Law and Frontier Technologies), director of the Master in Internet Ecosystem, coordinator of the PhD in Legal Sciences.
His scientific activity has always been characterized by attention to topics destined to provide a significant contribution of doctrine to jurisprudential practice and legislative reforms. Known in the academy as an expert in civil liability, her first contributions on the subject of biological damage caused by accidents at work and road accidents (converged in the 1996 monograph Damages to the person in ‘accidents’ at work and by car and conducted in synergy with forensic medicine) led to the legislative reform of the Inail settlement tables implemented in 2000 (a reform to which he actively contributed), as well as to the adoption of the settlement tables of micro-permanent impairments from road liability.
Added to these are the studies on the subject of real estate circulation (subject of the second monograph of 2003 Conflict resolution rules and compensation protection), from which the subsequent essays dedicated to the new methods of access to residential ownership arose, especially by vulnerable subjects .
Finally, numerous contributions dedicated to the relationship between law and technology, extended to personal data, digitalisation and artificial intelligence, contributions which have been the subject of significant conference initiatives.
Dianora Poletti leaves behind her husband and a daughter, Lavinia Vizzoni, also a professor at the University of Pisa, to whom the University’s deepest condolences go.
Anyone wishing to pay a final farewell to Professor Dianora Poletti can go to the “La Piramide” funeral home, in via della Gronda 336, in Lido di Camaiore (LU), 9am-7pm. A small commemoration will be held on Tuesday 30 April at 5.30 pm, again at the same funeral home.
Source: CIDIC Communication Polo University of Pisa
