Viola Cappelli

Roles and Affiliations: Viola Cappelli is a postdoctoral researcher at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, specializing in private law. She is currently based at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg as a Konrad Zweigert Scholar. Her research focuses on the intersection of private law with environmental and climatic challenges, particularly the impact of sustainability principles on European consumer law.

Current Research: Examining how private law can balance environmental protection with consumer self-determination, specifically analyzing the environmental implications of the right of withdrawal in online consumer contracts. Her work seeks to develop legal strategies to mitigate environmental harm caused by high product return rates.

Research Environment: At the Hamburg Institute, she benefits from access to extensive legal resources, collaboration with global scholars, and a productive academic community. She highlights the Institute’s role in advancing evolutionary paths of European private law through scholarly solutions.

Awards:

• Konrad Zweigert Scholar (Hamburg Institute)

Additional Notes: No grants, advising roles, or lab affiliations specified in the text. Her prior research included a PhD examining the clean energy revolution’s impact on consumer and contract law, conducted at the University of Groningen and Wageningen.