Alberto De Franceschi#

• Full Professor of Private Law at the University of Ferrara
• Global Law Professor of Digital Law facing the Sustainability Challenge at the Law School of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Visiting Professor of EU Digital Law at the Guanghua Law School of the Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
• Delegate of Italy, appointed by the Ministry of Justice at: United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in the Working Group IV on E-Commerce; International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT); The Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH); G7 Digital and Technology
• Chairman (from 2015 together with Prof. Reiner Schulze of the University of Münster and, since 2018, together with Prof. Christoph Busch of the University of Osnabrück) of the Digital Law Special Interest Group of the European Law Institute.
• Chairman (together with Prof. William Boyd, University of California Los Angeles) of the Sustainability and Environmental Law Special Interest Group of the European Law Institute
• Founding member and co-editor of the “EuCML - Journal of European Consumer and Market Law” (C.H. Beck, Munich / Kluwer Law International, Alphen aan den Rijn / Nomos, Baden-Baden) and of “The Italian Law Journal” (Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Naples)
• Expert at the European Judicial Training Network
• Expert and Scientific Coordinator at the Italian High School of the Judiciary (Scuola Superiore della Magistratura)
• 2021 - 2022 Vice-Rector for relations with students at the University of Ferrara
• 2019 - 2020 Member of the National University Council (“Consiglio Universitario Nazionale”) at the Italian Ministry of University and Research
• 2016 - 2021 National Expert appointed by the Italian Ministry of Justice for the adoption at EU level and the transposition in Italy of the EU Directive 2019/770 on the Supply of Digital Content and Digital Services and the EU Directive 2019/771 on the Sale of Goods
• 2019: Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence
• 2018 - 2020 Associate Professor of Private Law at the University of Ferrara, where he taught Courses of Private Law, Environmental Law and Intellectual Property Rights
• 2015 - 2017 Scholarship Holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Law Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich.
• 2014 Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford
• 2010 PhD in Law of Obligation and Contracts at the University of Ferrara
• 2008 - 2013 Scholarship Holder of the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich.

• Law of obligations and contracts
• Sale of goods
• Supply of digital content and digital services
• Data protection
• Regulation of online platforms
• AI contracting
• Liability for Artificial Intelligence
• Assignment of claims
• Sustainable consumption and circular economy
• Climate justice: Access to justice and liability

• 2015 DAAD Ladislao Mittner Award “For outstanding achievements in legal scholarship and for special merits concerning the cultural dialogue between Italy and Germany”
• The monograph of Alberto De Franceschi, “I limiti negoziali alla cessione del credito” "[“Contractual Restrictions on the Assignment of Claims”], Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Naples, 2014 was awarded by the Società Italiana degli Studiosi del Diritto Civile as “Deserving Special Appreciation”
• 2019 The “Digital Law Special Interest Group” of the European Law Institute, co-founded and co-chaired by Alberto De Franceschi (from 2015 to 2018 together with Prof. Reiner Schulze of the University of Münster and, since 2018, together with Prof. Christoph Busch of the University of Osnabrück) was awarded the Certificate of Excellence as “European Law Institute’s Special Interest Group of the Year 2019”
• 2020 The “Digital Law Special Interest Group” of the European Law Institute, co-founded and co-chaired by Alberto De Franceschi (from 2015 to 2018 together with Prof. Reiner Schulze of the University of Münster and, since 2018, together with Prof. Christoph Busch of the University of Osnabrück) was awarded the Certificate of Excellence as “European Law Institute’s Special Interest Group of Year 2020”
• 2021 The “Sustainability and Environmental Law Special Interest Group” of the European Law Institute, co-founded and co-chaired by Alberto De Franceschi together with Prof. William Boyd of the University of California – Los Angeles) was awarded the Certificate of Excellence as “European Law Institute’s Special Interest Group of the Year 2021”
• 2022 The “Sustainability and Environmental Law Special Interest Group” of the European Law Institute, co-founded and co-chaired by Alberto De Franceschi together with Prof. William Boyd of the University of California Los Angeles) was awarded the Certificate of Excellence as “European Law Institute’s Special Interest Group of the Year 2022”

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