Bocconi Legal Papers Honors Ariberto Mignoli
The July 2014 edition of Bocconi Legal Papers, the first Italian magazine managed by students, will be dedicated to Ariberto Mignoli, Bocconi Company and business law professor and an important figure for many years of Italian corporate life.
"Papers on the topic of business law will be selected with the supervision of Bocconi professors like Amedeo Bianchi, Mario Notari, Marco Ventoruzzo and Federico Ghezzi," explains Maria Lucia Passador, a fifth-year student in Law at Bocconi University and editor-in-chief of the magazine.
The project of this edition was much appreciated by the Freshfield International Law studio that also liked the new organization of the magazine, which in recent years has become more careful in choosing papers and more punctual in being published.
Bocconi Legal Papers was born in 2008 as an initiative of the School of Law and can claim a privileged relation with professors. From 2012 it enjoys an official statute approved by the faculty council.
The journal follows the route of similar American initiatives like Harvard Law Review and The Yale Law Journal, and is available on paper (two times a year, all in Italian) and also on line for free, to which extra content in English, or too long for the paper edition, are added. The team that take charge of the magazine are selected from students of law attending the last three years.
The Freshfield International Law studio supports the development of this project, helping to enlarge distribution and to print the paper edition, offering students the possibility of real and direct contact with business lawyers. The partners and the employees of the studio also give guidelines and suggestions to the board of the magazine on how to refine their project.
Maria Lucia Passador, who became part of the staff during the third year of university, explains the process to follow to be a member of the magazine's staff: "Selection starts with a practical editing: candidates are given an English article, like those found in the magazine. The board decides if the editing is satisfactory and in that case the candidate becomes an article editor and his job is a first-level control of the papers that arrived by platforms (such as ExpressO or professors' mailing lists). Then there is a second-level control entrusted to fourth and fifth year students, after which a supervisor deals with the papers and the editor-in-chief organizes and supervises all the work and completes the control process. A professor, expert in the in the subject matter, deals with the final and definitive check".