Andrea Tosato

Professor Andrea Tosato is a private law and commercial law scholar whose research examines how the law governs the creation, transfer, collateralization, and insolvency treatment of modern intangible assets. His current work focuses on digital assets, stablecoins, verified carbon credits, and related questions in secured transactions and bankruptcy.

His law reform work includes contributions to the 2022 Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code, service on the UNIDROIT drafting committees on digital assets and verified carbon credits, and his current role as Associate Research Director of the Permanent Editorial Board for the UCC. Read more →

Professor Tosato's scholarship sits at the intersection of private law, commercial law, and bankruptcy law. His scholarship addresses a central question of contemporary private law: how legal frameworks developed for tangible and conventional forms of property adapt to assets that are intangible, programmable, distributed, and increasingly central to modern commerce. His current work examines digital assets, stablecoins, and verified carbon credits as instances of this broader challenge.

As a key contributor to the drafting of UCC Article 12, he helped articulate the legal framework which provides clear rules for transferring and securing interests in cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and other digital assets across the United States of America. Beyond his work on UCC Article 12, Professor Tosato has made significant contributions to international law reform. He was a member of the Drafting Committee for the UNIDROIT Principles on Digital Assets and Private Law in 2023. More recently, he was appointed as a member of the drafting committee for the UNIDROIT Working Group on the Legal Nature of Verified Carbon Credits and serves as co-reporter for the Uniform Law Commission Commercial Law Framework for Voluntary Carbon Credits Committee.

Professor Tosato's scholarship has been published in leading law journals, including the Yale Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Alabama Law Review, Arizona State Law Journal, Florida Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, European Law Journal, Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, and Law & Contemporary Problems. His work has been cited by international bodies including the World Bank and the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice, demonstrating the impact of his scholarship on legal systems worldwide.