DONATI ALESSANDRA

Role
Associate professor  
Academic disciplines
Comparative Private Law (IUS/02)
Office phone

Biography

Alessandra Donati is Associate Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Director of the Master "Registrar Profession" of the Aldo Galli Academy, IED, Como and Head of the Art Law Course in the Master in Contemporary Art Markets at the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan (NABA). 

She is a member of Doctoral Committee of Doctoral program in “Intangible Heritage in the socio-cultural innovation” University Milano Bicocca.

She is a Lawyer of Counsel at ADVANT Nctm Law Firm and Arbitrator for the Venice Arbitration Chamber, International Section specializing in Art Law.

She is Director of the Course for the "Curator of the Artist Archive" organized by AitArt (Italian Association of Artist Foundations).

She is Director of the legal studies series on "Comparative Art Law" ESI Publisher and Member of Editorial Board of the International Review Art and Law, Brill Research Perspectives Publisher.

In 2015 she won the 2th edition of the Prize “The Jaques Derrida / Law and Culture International Chair of Philosophy”.

She is Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Association of Artists’ Archives and Foundations (AitArt), member of the Scientific Committee of the Center of Research on Cultural Heritage Bi-Pac of Milano-Bicocca (Bi-Pac), member of the Board of Careof, organization for contemporary art in Milan. 

She wrote PACTA (Protocols for Authenticity, Cure and Protection of contemporary Artworks), a new tool of certification of contemporary artwork adopted by MIBACT on July 2017.

She is a member of the Art Law Foundation, Geneva, of the SIRD (Società Italiana per lo Studio del Diritto Comparato) and of the Associazione Filippo de Pisis.

Publications

  • Donati, A. (2023). Il contratto per identificare e tutelare l’opera Dreams’ Time Capsule. In C. Cobianchi (a cura di), Dreams Archives - Eva Frapiccini. Venezia : bruno.it. Detail

  • Donati, A. (2023). Misure legali per l’arte nei luoghi pubblici : Dall’arte pubblica obbligatoria alla strutturata programmazione e cura dell’intervento dell’artista nello spazio pubblico. In Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura Fondazione Scuola dei beni e delle attività culturali (a cura di), Arte e Spazio Pubblico. Cinisello Balsamo (MI) : Silvana. Detail

  • Donati, A., Furin, N. (a cura di). (2023). L’Opera d’arte in Tribunale. Milano : Postmedia Books. Detail

  • Donati, A. (2022). L'artista: la certificazione dell'autenticità per la tutela dell'integrità dell'opera. In A. Donati, F. Tibertelli de Pisis (a cura di), L'Archivio d'Artista Principi, regole e buone pratiche (pp. 298-308). Johan & Levi. Detail

  • Donati, A., Pirri Valentini, A. (2022). Hoe not to be an uncollectible artist. In E. Schellekens, D. Dal Sasso (a cura di), Aestetics, Philosophy and Martin Creed (pp. 63-82). London : Bloomsbury. Detail

Research projects

DONATI-Fondo per il finanziamento delle attività base di ricerca
Year: 2017
Call: FFABR 2017
Grantors: M.I.U.R. - MINISTERO DELL'ISTRUZIONE, DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA - UFFICIO I - Bilancio e Contabilita'. Coordinamento staff della Direzione
L’Arte Invisibile. Collezioni private e territorio. Nuovi Modelli
Year: 2015
Call: 2015-014 - Interventi sul territorio - provincia di Milano
Grantors: FONDAZIONE CARIPLO
Il Common Frame of Reference nella prospettiva del diritto dei consumatori e dei servizi finanziari
Year: 2005
Call: 2005-006 - PRIN 2005

Awards

Awards

  • The Jaques Derrida / Law and Culture International Chair of Philosophy, Centre for Advanced Studies - South-East Europe, University of Rijeka
    Collège d’études mondiales - Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris
    École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
    Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Recht als Kultur”, Bonn
    LabOnt, University of Turin., 2015

Editorial boards

  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - BRILL RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES. ART AND LAW, 2017

Congresses/Conferences

  • Program chair - Artists’ Archives and Estates: Cultural Memory between Law and<br>Market(Italia), 2016