I graduated in administrative law (LUISS 1999) earned a Phd in EU and Comparative Public Administration (La Sapienza, 2006). The next stage was the LL.M. in Law and Economics (New York University, 2008), were I also worked as a research scholar (2006-2008), as Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center and as research fellow at the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. Since then I started working on the study and practice of urban governance approaches to foster innovation processes, community-led urban development, participatory governance of cultural heritage and governance of the commons. I deepened the study on this topic as associate professor of public law at Guglielmo Marconi University and as research fellow of the Fordham Urban Consortium, Fordham University of NYC (2016) and Professor of Urban law and Policy at LUISS University (2017). In 2011 I founded and currently direct LabGov, a transdisciplinary research program and a clinical education program at LUISS University of Rome involving students and scholars in the work with local communities and local governments to craft and implement urban policies and practices based on the adaptation to the urban setting of the design principles and methodologies discovered by Elinor Ostrom in the study of natural resource commons. LabGov is a way to co-design law and institutions with society, developing research and empirical frameworks to enable local communities and city governments pool their efforts. 

The CO-City methodology I developed is generating interest in EU cities. Amsterdam, Athens, and Barcelona have expressed interest to start test the CO-city protocol. Also for this purpose, I was invited as a speaker to the meeting of the Social Affair Forum, organized by EUROCITIES (October 2016) in Athens, and at the international event of Barcola, the Barcelona city council working group on collaborative economy were experts, citizens and sector representatives have been working together on EU policy proposals/recommendations: http://procomuns.net/en/policy/. Recently, I was invited to the event “Urban Commons: towards the communitary management of public goods and services”, organized area of participation of the Barcelona Municipality (November 2017). In AmsterdamI have been invited several times as a speaker in the New Democracy Series, organized in Parkhuis de Zwiger by the City Makers Movement, in the context of the drafting process of the EU Urban Agenda. I was speaker in the session on LabGov AMS at the Peer Value Conference (September 2016) with policy makers and scholars from the Department of Urban Studies (University of Amsterdam) and to a practicioners session on LabGov AMS at the IASC Utrecht Conference (July 2017). The Co city approach (www.commoning.city) is currently an open research and experimentation agenda under development in collaboration with Sheila Foster, from Georgetown University. I am also advising the City of Seoul on sharing economy.