Academia

Despite working most of my time with clients, I have always been active in the academic field. I have been a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School and a research scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Law School and Philosophy Department). My main research focus is legal design, but I am also interested in innovation, wellbeing, and innovability in a broader sense.

I am part of the editorial board of the UIA magazine The Juriste and co-founder of the first Legal Design Journal (I am now part of the case studies collective). Additionally, I serve on the advisory board of the Harvard Italian Law Students Association and the Bologna University Law Review

PUBLICATIONS

My horizons of interest are very wide, basically everything that is new, fresh, and dynamic in the legal world. In the last few years I researched/wrote/lectured about legal design, mediation, artificial intelligence, blockchain, entertainment, copyright, e-sports, B Corps and benefit corporations, sustainability, mindfulness, legal wellbeing, future of legal profession. Despite the variety of topics, my approach tends to be quite holistic

COURSES

Since 2017, I am a Teaching Fellow for the CopyrightX course, offered by Harvard Law School in conjunction with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. At Harvard, I held the course on Legal Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (J-Term) on 2023 and 2024.

I am also adjunct professor at Polimoda (course in Fashion Law for undergraduate students – with Arianna Giovannardi-; AI for business for executives) and lecturer for the masters of Sole24Ore Business School. I teach several modules, such as: blockchain and smart contracts; robotics, artificial intelligence and transformation, legal design.

During the last few years, I have been invited to talk in many universities. Among them, Harvard, Oxford (Deep Tech Dispute Resolution Lab), Swansea (Tech Lab), Kings’ College, University of Genova, Luiss, Bocconi, Pavia, Bologna, Padua, Milan (Università degli Studi).

I have always considered innovation in its etymological sense (the Latin words en and novare). Whether we talk about benefit corporations, legal design, alternative dispute resolution, or mindfulness, we need to look at things in a different way. And technology, while useful in most of the cases, is not necessarily a requirement.