Biography
Giovanni Strampelli is Full Professor of Business Law and Director of the PhD in Legal Studies at Bocconi University, Milan. He teaches and writes in the areas of corporate law, accounting law, bankruptcy law and securities regulation. His scholarship has been or will be published in the Journal of Corporation Law, the Virginia Law & Business Review, the Harvard Business Law Review, the University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy, the European Business Organization Law Review, and the European Company Financial Law Review, as well as in Italian leading journals (e.g. Rivista delle Società, Banca Borsa e Titoli di Credito, Rivista di Diritto Civile). He also authored several book chapters and two books.
Representative projects include high frequency trading and market abuse, board-shareholder engagement, directors’ independence in listed companies with controlling shareholders, interaction between international accounting standards (IAS/IFRS) and companies’ capital, and the relevance of issuers’ accounting disclosure for different investor groups. He was visiting scholar in many research institutes and Universities, such as the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, and the University of Oxford.
