My primary line of research lies at the intersection of corporate law and technology. I explore unconventional corporate structures that employ blockchain technology, alternative capital markets, and encoded governance structures enabled by artificial intelligence. From the study of unconventional organizations in alternative financial markets, my research migrates to investors’ governance. My second line of research deals with comparative law and methodology. Using empirical quantitative analysis, I import methods from the social sciences to address problems within comparative law, emphasizing how rather than why to compare. In my doctoral dissertation, I examined intermediaries as a source for exerting internal corporate governance and accountability/compliance in the technological provision of financial services, known as decentralized finance (DeFi). I analyzed how technological forms of disintermediation affect corporate structure and governance and how new types of emergent intermediaries can mitigate potential corporate conflicts. My future work builds on this research.

In the project for the Max Weber Fellowship, DeGov: Models for Accessible Governance, I study the role of crypto asset holders and how dividing economic rights from voting rights is one way to incentivize active participation and further reduce collective action problems within Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). This research makes three key contributions: First, it examines the unique rights of cryptoasset holders, distinguishing them from other organizations in the fintech sector. Second, it explores governance mechanisms that elude traditional corporate analysis, offering insights into how these DAOs operate. Finally, it investigates ways to enhance governance structures within blockchain and beyond. To uncover this, I will perform an online experiment from which I received the Early-Stage research grant, and two Max Weber Fellows grants.

In the US, I served as a senior editor of the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal and held teaching positions at the University of Illinois. I am an active contributor to the Law as Science project, a movement dedicated to introducing a scientific approach to legal studies with a strong emphasis on research methodology.

I graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (JSD), the University of California at Berkeley (LLM), and the University of Genova, Department of Law (JD) and Department of Economics (MA).