ICYMI: Lawyer Helped Stop Water Privatization in Italy: #UgoMattei, Now a Prof in U.S., To Speak Friday @ #AmericanMuseumofTortLaw @tortmuseum @WinstedCitizen
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By #MIKEPATRICK
WINSTED – Activist lawyer Ugo Mattei will speak
Friday, Feb. 17, at 3 p.m. at the American Museum of Tort Law.
Mattei is distinguished Alfred and Hanna Fromm
Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of California,
Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. He is also chair of Civil Law at the
University of Turin in Italy. He is widely known in Italy for his work leading
to a nationwide referendum in 2011 in which voters rejected the privatization
of water.
He is the best-selling author of "Beni Comuni.
Un Manifesto" and co-author of the English language books "The
Ecology of Law. Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community"
and "The Turning Point in Private Law: Ecology, Technology and the
Commons." In his speech at the museum, Mattei will discuss the
“technological takeover of law and politics.”
Violinist Adnaan Stumo, a world traveler and mariner
who recently returned from a voyage in the South Pacific, will perform at the
event. Stumo is the grand-nephew of Ralph Nader, founder of the American Museum
of Tort Law.
#MelissaBird, director of the American Museum of Tort Law,
said the visit by Mattei and Stumo is an example of the eclectic nature of the
Winsted community.
“What I think is that you have this very small town,
like quintessential American small town, then you have all of these places
popping up like the #AmericanMuralProject and the tort museum,”
Bird said. “It’s opening up all these opportunities to be exposed to more
worldly things.”
The American Museum of Tort Law is at 654 Main St. For more information, call 860-379-0505 or email Melissa.bird@tortmuseum.org.
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