Biography
Franco Ferrari is the Clarence D. Ashley Professor of Law and the Director of the Intesa Sanpaolo Center fore Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law at New York University School of Law. Before joining NYU School of Law full-time in 2010, he had been a full professor of international law at Verona University (2002-2016), a full professor of comparative law at the University of Bologna (1998-2002) and Tilburg University in the Netherlands (1995-1998). After serving as a member of the Italian delegation to various sessions of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) from 1995 to 2000, he was a Legal Officer at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, International Trade Law Branch, from 2000 to 2002, where he was responsible for numerous projects, including the preparation of the UNCITRAL Digest on applications of the UN Sales Convention. Professor Ferrari has published more than 380 law review articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries in various languages and more than 50 books in the areas of international commercial law, conflict of laws, comparative law, and international commercial arbitration. Professor Ferrari, who is a recipient of the 2018 Certificate of Merit for High Technical Craftmanship and Utility to Practicing Lawyers and Scholars awarded by the American Society of International Law, is a member of the editorial boards of various peer-reviewed European law journals (Internationales Handelsrecht, European Review of Private Law, Arbitraje, Contratto e impresa/Europa) and was the General Editor of the European International Arbitration Review (2016-2021). He also acts as an international arbitrator both in international commercial arbitrations and investment arbitrations.