Stefano Malpassi

I joined Bocconi in September 2025 as an Assistant Professor of Legal History in the Angelo Sraffa Department of Legal Studies.
My research interests primarily focus on Italian and American jurisprudence concerning law and economics, market regulation, welfare, substantive rights and constitutional transformations in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Born and raised in Florence, I obtained my master’s degree in law from the University of Florence in 2016 and was admitted to the Bar in 2018. I also hold a PhD in Legal History from the University of Macerata (2020).
Prior to joining Bocconi, I was a Robbins Collection Visiting Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (2018), a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Florence (2020–2021) and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ferrara (2022–2025). In 2023, I was awarded the National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) as an Associate Professor of Medieval and Modern Legal History.
I often adopt a comparative legal history approach and am therefore a member of the European Society for Comparative Legal History. This approach is reflected in my book «La democrazia economica americana» (2024), which focuses on legal debates on market regulation during the Great Depression, bringing together Fascist corporatism and the New Deal. The book was awarded the 2024 Bartolo da Sassoferrato Prize for Legal and Political-Social Sciences.