Andrea Piletta

Andrea is currently working as Maître de Conférences at the Law Faculty of the Université Catholique de Lyon (UCLy). Previously, he covered the position of research fellow at the University of Torino’s Law Department. He obtained his Ph.D cum laude from the University of Trento (Ph.D in Comparative and European Legal Studies) with a thesis titled ‘Competition Law Between Old Goals and New Challenges. New Tools for a Multi-Value Approach vis-à-vis Digitalisation, Inequalities, and Climate Changes’. He received his degree in law summa cum laude, with academic distinction, from the University of Torino with a final dissertation titled ‘Competition Defence, Private Enforcement Tools: Are They Effective?’. He spent his initial formation as trainee lawyer in the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP’s Milan office. He is admitted to the Italian bar. His areas of interest are the impact of digitalisation and the green transition on competition law, private enforcement of competition law, collective redress, the EU Single Market and its enlargement in the Western Balkans. He recently published a textbook in the field of Comparative Law (S. Ferreri – A. Piletta Massaro, Casi di comparazione giuridica, Giuffrè, 2024).
He is Assistant Director of the Master in International Trade Law held by the University of Torino and the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation (ITCILO), in cooperation with Unidroit, Uncitral and Iuse (Istituto Universitario di Studi Europei).
He is fellow of: The European Law Institute (ELI), Società Italiana per la Ricerca nel Diritto Comparato (SIRD), Association Henri Capitant, ASCOLA, Juris Diversitas, TOELI. He sits in the editorial board of the Journal of Law, Market & Innovation.