Dr Alberto De Franceschi is a Research Fellow and Assistant Professor of Private Law at the University of Ferrara as well as a Research Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. From 2008 to 2013 he was a scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich and in 2013-2014 a visiting fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law of the University of Oxford. He is a founding member and an editor of the Journal on European Consumer and Market Law and of the Italian Law Journal.

With contributions by: Christoph Busch, Joana Campos Carvalho, Alberto De Franceschi, Pietro Franzina, Martin Gebauer, Geraint Howells, Peter Kindler, Michael Lehmann, Rodrigo Momberg, Jorge Morais Carvalho, Karl-Nikolaus Peifer, Reiner Schulze, Christian Twigg-Flesner, and Herbert Zech.