Massimo Proto

Massimo Proto is Full Professor of Private Law at the Department of Business and Economic Law of LUISS University. He also teaches at the Alta Scuola di Specializzazione Olimpica of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI), where he coordinates the legal module of the Olympic Management course. He was Visiting Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and at the Universidad de la Habana; he has also delivered lecture series at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul.

He is an ordinary member of the Associazione Civilisti Italiani, the Unione dei Privatisti, the Società Italiana degli Studiosi del Diritto civile and the Society of European Contract Law. He is a member of the editorial boards of Nuovo Diritto Civile, AI Law - International Review of Artificial Intelligence Law and Rivista di Diritto Sportivo, and of the scientific committees of Diritto del Risparmio and Diritto delle Successioni e della Famiglia.

He has been appointed by CONI as a member of commissions on sports justice and as Commissioner ad acta of numerous National Sports Federations. He is a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and a legal expert supporting the functions assigned to the Italian Minister for Sport and Youth. He is on the list of arbitrators of the Arbitration Chamber for public contracts at ANAC (the Italian National Anti-Corruption Authority) and of the Camera Arbitrale e di Conciliazione della Cooperazione established by the Confederation of Italian Cooperatives, and has served as a member of the Italian Banking and Financial Ombudsman (Arbitro Bancario Finanziario – ABF).

He is the author of two monographs and more than one hundred essays and articles, and regularly speaks at national and international conferences and study meetings.