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Ettore Maria is Professor of Private Law and Digital Society Law at the University of Florence School of Law and of Counsel at the boutique Hage-Chahine with Lombardi (formerly at DLA Piper and Hogan Lovells in Rome and Milan). He co-directs the Executive Course in Art & Law (with Marc-André Renold of the University of Geneva and Eike Schmidt, Director of the Capodimonte Museum) and directs the Executive Course The Condominium: Between Law and its Social Role. He holds a J.D. and Ph.D. in Civil Law from the University of Florence, a Licentiate in Canon Law and a Bachelor of Theology from the Pontifical Lateran University, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and advanced certificates from Oxford Saïd Business School and the University of Cambridge in AI, sustainability management, and sustainable finance.

Ettore Maria has been a Visiting Scholar at St. John’s Law School (New York), an Adjunct Professor at the University of Miami School of Law, a Senior Researcher at the Empirical and Applied Research Laboratory in Law and Artificial Intelligence (University of Brasilia), a Research Associate at UCL’s Centre for Blockchain Technologies, and a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute, Queen Mary University of London, CUTS C-CIER (India), and the National University of Singapore. He served two terms as a Member of the Banking and Financial Arbitrator appointed by the Bank of Italy and is currently President of the Supervisory Body “Model 231” of Nuova Pignone Holding S.p.A. (Baker Hughes group).

 Admitted to practice in Italy and New York, he is active in numerous international legal associations, including the Harvard Law School Association of Europe and the Société de législation comparée. He is the author of six books and over sixty scholarly articles in private, commercial, and financial law.