Full professor of commercial law in the Department of Law at the Luiss Guido Carli University of Rome since academic year 2009/2010.

Graduated in 1980 from the Faculty of Law of La Sapienza University of Rome, he was a research fellow in commercial law at that same faculty from 1983 to 1990.

In 1991, after winning the competition for associate professor, he was called to the Faculty of Law of the University of Macerata, where he taught commercial and industrial law.

In 1995 he won the competition for a full professor and was called to the Faculty of Economics at the University of Macerata, where he taught business law and banking law from 1995 to 2004.

During the same period he was President of the Degree Course in Economics of Financial Intermediaries and Director of the Fausto Vicarelli Laboratory.

In 2004 he was appointed to the Faculty of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he taught business law, company law, competition law and banking and financial contract law.

At the University of Tor Vergata he was also a member of the faculty of the PhD in commercial law, the master’s degree in e-procurement and the master’s degree in competition and regulation of network services.

He was a lecturer in commercial law at the Tax Police College of the Guardia di Finanza.

He has carried out research and taught courses abroad at the following universities and institutions:

– Università di Heidelberg, Institut fur Auslandisches und Internazionales Privat-recht (Germania)

– Max PlancK Institut fur Internationales Handelsrecht di Amburgo (Germania)

– Duke University Law School (USA)

– Hong Kong University (Cina)

From 2002 to 2008 he was a member of the Ombudsman-Banking Jury

Since 2009 he has been an effective member of the Banking and Financial Arbitrator (ABF) established at the Bank of Italy.

Its studies have focused mainly on the following research areas:

Competition and innovation law –

Co-author of the first comprehensive commentary on antitrust legislation (1991), the Industrial Law Handbook (2005), the volume Antitrust Law (2008), the volume The new antitrust protection instruments (2007) and Contract and antitrust (2009), and numerous comments and essays on industrial law.