Prof. Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina is Assistant Professor of Legal History at the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich (Switzerland). She received her MA in Law at the University of Milan and her PhD in Legal History at the University of Genoa (Italy). Her main research fields include history of international law, circulation and diffusion of natural law and law of nations theories between the 18th and 19th centuries, history of water law, history of land ownership and land registration (19th and 20th centuries).