Alberto De Franceschi - Curriculum vitae#

• Full Professor of Private Law, Digital Law and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Ferrara
  
• Global Law Professor of Digital Law facing the Sustainability Challenge at the Law Faculty of the KU Leuven (Belgium)
  
• Visiting Professor of EU Digital Law at the Law Faculty of the Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (China)
  
• PhD in Italian, European and Comparative Law of Obligations and Contracts at the University of Ferrara. Scholarship holder of the Max Planck Society at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (29 months) and of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the LMU Munich (24 months), Visiting Fellow at University of Oxford (6 months) and at European University Institute (6 months)
  
• Co-chairman of the European Law Institute (ELI) Digital Law Special Interest Group (awarded as best Special Interest Group in 2019 and 2020) and of the ELI Environmental Law Special Interest Group (awarded as best Special Interest Group in 2021 and 2022)
  
• Delegate as an Expert of Italy at: United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in the Working Group IV on E-Commerce; G7 Digital&Technology; International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT); The Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH)
  
• 2016 - 2021 Expert to the Italian Ministry of Justice for the adoption at EU level and the implementation into national law of the EU Directive 2019/770 on Supply of Digital Content and Digital Services and 2019/771 on the Sales of Goods
  
• 2019 - 2020 Member of the National University Council at the Italian Ministry of University and Research, representing the Area of Legal Sciences (as the only one representative of all Italian Associate Professors)
  
• Scientific coordinator and Trainer for the Italian School of the Judiciary
  
• Trainer for the European Judicial Training Network
  
• DAAD-Ladislao-Mittner Award 2015 “For outstanding achievements in legal scholarship and for special merits concerning the cultural dialogue between Italy and Germany”
  
• Co-author of the EU Commission’s Study for the Fitness Check of EU Consumer and Marketing Law
  
• Founding member and co-editor of the “Journal of European Consumer and Market Law” and of “The Italian Law Journal”