Matteo Erede, a Corporate Governance Specialist at the Department of Legal Studies

In spring 2015, Matteo Erede joined Bocconi Department of Legal Studies as an Assistant Professor. After he graduated at Bocconi in Law & Business Administration (CLELI), Matteo obtained a law degree from Università Statale di Milano. Then he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to earn a master of law degree (LLM) and to pursue his doctoral studies (SJD) at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

In the spring semester he has already taught two graduate school courses at Bocconi: International Comparative Business Law in the International Management program and Advanced Company and Business Law in the Management program. In the fall, Matteo will be teaching an advanced class on Corporate Law in Bocconi Law School - a class taught in Italian.

When he is not teaching or taking care of his 17-month-old son, Matteo is working on his research projects which are at the moment mostly individual. His interests include the areas of corporate law and governance with a current focus on shareholder activism, board representation of non-controlling shareholders, and financial investors' short-termism. In more general terms, his goal is to help explore Italy's corporate governance regulation as well as the difference compared to the US system or within the EU.

He finds "corporate law research today particularly challenging" since there is a sense of a methodological divide between the Italian and the foreign (especially American) legal scholarship. In this divide, while including comparative and empirical analysis, Matteo's research approach has to remain consistent with the traditional canons of the Italian academia.