Professor Alessio M. Pacces

Alessio M. Pacces is the Professor of Law & Finance at the Amsterdam Law School and the Amsterdam Business School of the University of Amsterdam. Since 2019, Alessio is the Director of the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE).

A graduate in economics from LUISS, Rome, Alessio holds the LL.M. European Master in Law & Economics and a PhD in Law & Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he was a Professor of Law & Finance. Prior to entering academia, Alessio worked at the Bank of Italy and at the Italian Securities Authority.

Alessio is an internationally known scholar who has contributed to the law & finance literature on the regulation of corporate control, financial stability, and shadow banking. His current research interests include sustainable corporate governance, control-enhancing mechanisms, and mandatory climate disclosure. Alessio published in journals such as Harvard Business Law Review, Theoretical Inquires in Law, American Business Law Journal, Journal of Corporate Law Studies and International Review of Law & Economics, among others, and with houses such as Routledge, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press, among others. He was invited to speak at the European Commission, the OECD, the IMF, and the European Central Bank, among others. Alessio held visiting positions at universities such as Berkeley, Columbia, Haifa, LUISS Rome, and Stanford, among others.