Professor

Andrea

Tosato

Professor Andrea Tosato is a private law scholar, whose research focuses on the intersection between commercial law and new technologies. He has published in leading law journals, received international awards, and has been cited by courts in several jurisdictions. In the United States, his articles have been published in the Pennsylvania Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Florida Law Review, Alabama Law Review, Arizona State Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, Indiana Law Journal, and Law & Contemporary Problems. In Europe, his scholarship has appeared in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, European Law Journal, and Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly.
 

Professor Tosato has extensive experience in international and domestic law reform initiatives. In the United States, he was a key contributor to the ULC/ALI Uniform Commercial Code and Emerging Technologies Committee that drafted the 2022 Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code and UCC Article 12. In the United Kingdom, he has advised the Law Commission of England & Wales on its secured transactions and digital assets initiatives. Internationally, he regularly serves as an expert advisor to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Laws (UNCITRAL) and the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). 

Professor Tosato also serves as the Associate Research Director of the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code and is the Chair of the Sub-Committee for UCC and Emerging Technologies of the American Bar Association Business Law Section.