Pietro Sirena
-Born in Canelli (Italy), on 7 January 1970
-Dean of Bocconi Law Scool (2018-)
-Past Faculty Deputy for "Law and Regulation" at SDA Bocconi-School of Management (2021-2023)
-Member of the Executive Committee (2019-) and Treasurer (2021-) of the European Law Institute (ELI)
-Member of the Executive Committee (2011-) and President (2022-) of the Society of European Contract Law (SECOLA)
-Membre associé of the Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé (2016-)
-Past Secretary-General of the Associazione Civilisti Italiani (2010-2016)
-Presidente del Collegio di Roma dell'Arbitro Bancario Finanziario (ABF) (2019-)
-Past Research Director of Società Italiana Ricerca nel Diritto Comparato (SIRD) (2014-2022)
Full Professor
Civil Law, Comparative Private Law, and Banking Law
pietro.sirena@unibocconi.it
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Research interests
- Consumer protection, particularly in European private law
- Banking law
- Unjustified enrichment and restitution
Selected Publications
National laws and European private law: the value of legal pluralism in Europe
The future of European private law, 2023Autonomia privata e regolazione del mercato nella disciplina dei contratti d'impresa
Annuario del contratto 2022, 2023Autonomia privata e regolazione del mercato nella disciplina dei contratti d'impresa
BANCA BORSA TITOLI DI CREDITO, 2023Danno-evento, danno-conseguenza e relativi nessi causali. Una storia di superfetazioni interpretative e ipocrisie giurisprudenziali
RESPONSABILITÀ CIVILE E PREVIDENZA, 2023‘Granular legal norms’ in the financial services trade
Algorithmic regulation and personalized law : a handbook, 2021Hardship and Renegotiation of Contracts in the Prospective Recodification of Italian Civil Law
ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR VERGLEICHENDE RECHTSWISSENSCHAFT, 2020The contracting parties' choice of European soft law: its validity and limits
Researches in European private law and beyond : contributions in honour of Reiner Schulze’s seventieth birthday, 2020I Principios Latinoamericanos de Derecho de los Contratos e il diritto nazionale dei consumatori
OSSERVATORIO DEL DIRITTO CIVILE E COMMERCIALE, 2019The concepts of ‘harm’ in the French and Italian laws of civil liability
French civil liability in comparative perspective, 2019Die Rolle wissenschaftlicher Entwürfe im europäischen Privatrecht
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR EUROPAISCHES PRIVATRECHT, 2018La rèforme du droit français des contrats et des obligations: un regard italien
La reécriture du code civil: le droit français des contrats après la réforme de 2016, 2018ADR systems in the banking and financial markets
Le tritement des difficultés des étabilissements bancaires et istitutions financières. Approche croisée, 2017The new design of the French law of contract and obligations: an Italian view
The Code Napoléon rewritten. French contract law after the 2016 reforms, 2017Teaching
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