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LUCA ARNAUDO, Ph.D.
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Piazza Verdi 6A, Rome (Italy)
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Cuneo (Italy), July 30, 1974
Italian (mother tongue). Fluent in English, French, Spanish, German
CURRENT POSITION:
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Senior officer at Italian Competition Authority («ICA»), Rome
EDUCATION:
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2009-2012: Luiss University, Ph.D. in Law and Economics. Final dissertation
successfully defended on March 28, 2012 (dissertation title: Elements of Cognitive
Economics and Law)
1993-1998: SSSA, Pisa (Italy), P.G. Dip. in Law (first-class degree, with statement of
excellence)
1993-1998: Università di Pisa, J.D. (first-class degree, with honours)
ACADEMIC, RESEARCH AND VISITING POSITIONS:
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SSSA: antitrust lecturer, March-April 2014
Syracuse University, College of Law (U.S.A.): visiting scholar, September 2011
Universidad Nacional de La Matanza, Buenos Aires (Argentina): visiting professor,
April-May 2010
Oslo Universiteit, Oslo (Norway): visiting scholar, August 2003
Wien Universität, Vienna (Austria): visiting scholar, August 2000
Universidad Carlos III, Madrid (Spain): Socrates exchange student, October 1997March 1998
Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main (Germany): DAAD exchange student,
April-September 1996
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
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Antitrust
Cognitive Law (applications of cognitive science to legal theory)
Law and Economics
Regulation and competition of public utilities
European Law
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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES, BOARD OF REVIEWS, ACADEMIC SOCIETIES MEMBERSHIPS:
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Member of the scientific committee of the Turin School of Local Regulation
(«TSLR»), a network institution active worldwide in offering high-level educational
and capacity-building experience on regulation of local public services
Italian Editor of The Digest, the Law Journal of the National Italian American Bar
Association («NIABA»), published by the Syracuse University, College of Law
Academic Society (current or recent) memberships include Italian Society of Law
and Economics («SIDE»), Society for Evolutionary Analysis in the Law - SEAL,
European Association for Decision Making - EADM, Italian Association of Law and
Neuroscience («DI.ME.CE.», founding member)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
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2001-present: Senior officer at the ICA, investigative service
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Case-handler of several proceedings related to illicit agreements, abuses of
dominant position and mergers, mainly in the areas of pharmaceuticals,
environmental public utilities, transports, building industry, oil and gas
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Consultant of many Italian administrations, on behalf of ICA, with regards to
competition and public procurement issues
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ICA representative at many meetings related to competition issues held by the
European Union («EU») Commission in Brussels
2004-present: Trainer of public officers and judges in Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Montenegro, Romania and Serbia on behalf of EU (CARDS, PHARE and Twinning
Cooperation Programs), with special focus on antitrust and public procurement
1998-2000: Law practice at Pavia & Ansaldo law firm, Milan and Turin offices
(Italy). Admitted to the Italian Bar on September 2003
SELECTED ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:
Books
1. La ragione sociale. Saggio di economia e diritto cognitivi, Luiss University Press
(«LUP»), 2012. (topic: the book reconstructs the path followed by the economic
thought for switching from a rigid axiomatic approach to an experimentalcognitive approach with a distinctive evolutionary flavor, also based upon
neuroscience knowledge. The book proposes then a similar path to be followed
also by the legal thought, in view of reaching a unifying decision theory to be
adopted by law and economics for a better understanding and management of
human behaviors)
2. Scambi, mercato, concorrenza, LUP, forthcoming
3. Cognitive Law. A collection of Italian Studies (ed.), LUP, forthcoming
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Book Chapters
1. Le concentrazioni. Profili sostanziali, in A. Frignani and S. Bariatti, La disciplina UE
della concorrenza, Cedam 2012 (topic: EU merger control)
2. Le concentrazioni. Profili procedurali, in A. Frignani and S. Bariatti, La disciplina UE
della concorrenza, Cedam 2012 (topic: procedural issues of EU merger control)
3. Regolamentazione finanziaria e tutela della concorrenza, in R. D'Apice, L'attuazione della
MiFiD in Italia, Bolonia 2010; co-authored with R. Pardolesi (topic: financial services
and antitrust)
4. Il sistema sanzionatorio e le misure cautelari, in A. Frignani and R. Pardolesi, La
concorrenza, Turin 2006 (topic: fines and interim measures in EU antitrust)
Articles (most of them available at http://independent.academia.edu/LucaArnaudo)
1. The strange case of Dr. Lucentis and Mr. Avastin, European Competition Law Review
forthcoming 2014 (topic: pharmaceutical industry and illicit agreements)
2. The Quest for Behavioural Antitrust. Beyond the Label Battle, towards a Cognitive
Approach, The Dovenschmidt Quarterly, n. 2, 2013, re-issued in the ICA working
paper series Temi e Problemi, no. 15 (topic: competition law, behavioral economics
and cognitive science)
3. Equivalenti, biosimilari, gare: appunti di governo concorrenziale della spesa farmaceutica,
Mercato Concorrenza Regole, n. 2, 2013 (topic: pharmaceutical industry and
competition)
4. Riforme, regolazione, retorica: il caso dei servizi idrici in Italia, L’Industria, n. 3, 2012
(topic: water industry and regulation)
5. Cognitive Law. An Introduction, The Digest - NIABA Law Journal, 2011 (topic:
cognitive science and the law)
6. The Competition Environment of Packaging Waste Management: Some Evidence from
Italy, European Competition Law Review, n. 10, 2011 (topic: waste management
and antitrust in Italy)
7. Holes in the water. The reform of water sector in Italy, Competition and Regulation in
Network Industries, n. 2, 2011 (topic: water industry and regulation)
8. Diritto in evoluzione, Materiali per una storia della cultura giuridica, n. 2, 2011
(topic: evolutionary science and legal theory)
9. Consorzi, concorrenza, ecologia politica, Mercato Concorrenza Regole, n. 1, 2011; coauthored with G. Pietropaolo (topic: waste management and antitrust)
10. Raising Rival's Ghosts, Il Diritto industriale, n. 1, 2011 (topic: building materials
industry and antitrust)
11. Concorrenza tra autorità indipendenti, Giurisprudenza Commerciale, n. 5, 2010 (topic:
economic analysis of public law)
12. Mercosur: progressi e prospettive, La Comunità Internazionale, n. 3, 2010 (topic:
institutional analysis of the Common Market of South America-Mercosur)
13. Diritto cognitivo: prolegomeni a una ricerca, Politica del Diritto, n. 1, 2010 (topic:
cognitive science, law and economics)
14. I servizi pubblici dall'anarchia al disordine, Bollettino Astrid, November 2009 (topic:
public utilities regulation in Italy)
15. I servizi pubblici, l'antitrust e l'articolo 23 bis. Bandoli da un imbroglio, Mercato
Concorrenza Regole, n. 2, 2009 (topic: public utilities and antitrust);
16. Le misure cautelari nel diritto antitrust nazionale e comunitario, Rivista italiana di
diritto pubblico comunitario, n. 6, 2006 (topic: interim measures in antitrust law)
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17. Costituzione e concorrenza. Note a margine della recente giurisprudenza costituzionale,
Rivista italiana di diritto pubblico comunitario, n. 3, 2005 (topic: Italian
constitutional law and antitrust)
18. Considerazioni di efficienza nel nuovo controllo comunitario delle concentrazioni, Mercato
Concorrenza Regole, n. 1, 2005 (topic: EC merger regulation and antitrust)
19. Principi, procedura e restrizioni accessorie nel diritto antitrust comunitario, Contratto e
Impresa/Europa, n. 1, 2003 (topic: ancillary restraints in EU competition law)
20. Gestione giuridica delle acque e concorrenza nei servizi idrici, Mercato Concorrenza
Regole, n. 3, 2003 (topic: water management and competition analysis)
21. Le restrizioni accessorie nel diritto antitrust, Contratto e Impresa/Europa, n. 2, 2002
(topic: ancillary restraints in US and EU antitrust)
22. Abuso di posizione dominante: la reimmatricolazione delle auto storiche, Il diritto
industriale, n. 3, 2002 (topic: a monopolization case study)
23. Aiuti di stato, tariffe e concorrenza, Rivista italiana di diritto pubblico comunitario, n.
6, 2000 (topic: state aids and EU competition law)
24. Gli aiuti di stato in una prospettiva di rilevanza e controllo nazionale, Rivista di diritto
dell’impresa, n. 2, 2000 (topic: state aids in EU law)
25. La tutela della concorrenza sospesa tra giurisdizione ordinaria e autorità garanti,
Giurisprudenza Italiana, 2000 (topic: competition law and conflicts of jurisdiction)
26. Leopoldina e lesa maestà: i brevi lumi di una grande riforma, Nuova rivista storica, n. 2,
1999 (topic: abolishion of death penalty in 1786 Tuscan Penal Code)
27. Mediazione e diritto penale: una proposta di conciliazione, Sociologia del Diritto, n. 2,
1999 (topic: penal law and alternative disputes resolution)
28. Un diritto penale per l’Unione Europea? Appunti su di un rapporto complesso, Il Ponte, n.
1, 1999 (topic: EU penal law)
29. Le sanzioni comunitarie della concorrenza, Rivista italiana di diritto pubblico
comunitario, n. 3-4, 1998 (topic: EU antitrust fines)
30. L'abuso di informazioni nel gruppo creditizio, The Cardozo Electronic Law Bulletin,
1996 (topic: insider trading and banking law)
Working Papers (available at www.ssrn.com)
1. Talkin' About a Revolution. Some Thoughts on Social Science, New Evolutionary Studies
and the Law, December 2010 (topic: evolutionary science and legal theory)
2. Single-Firm Conduct: a Discipline in Search of Itself. Try with Google? co-authored with
R. Pardolesi, January 2010 (topic: antitrust monopolization and the Google Books
Settlement case)
Translations
1. Robin Paul Malloy, Adam Smith nelle corti degli Stati Uniti (essay translated from
English to Italian, Mercato Concorrenza Regole, n. 3, 2012)
2. Benjamin Constant, La libertà degli antichi e dei moderni (collection of essays
translated from French to Italian), Macerata 2001, 2nd edition 2004
SELECTED SPEECHES, LECTURES AND PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:
1. Diritti di proprietà intellettuale e antitrust, seminar at the ICA, March 2014 (delivered
in Italian)
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2. An introduction to competition laws and policies, seminar at the University of Palermo
for EU judges, Palermo, November 2013 (English)
3. Antitrust and the pharma sector. Recent developments in Italy, presentation at the ECN
Pharma Study Group, European Commission, Bruxelles, November 2013 (English)
4. Prospettive di antitrust cognitivo, seminar at the ICA, November 2013 (Italian)
5. Understanding/designing agents. Perspectives on cognitive law and economics, seminar at
the Harz University, Halberstadt, October 2013 (English)
6. Regulation and competition in environmental network industries, master class at the
TSLR Summer School, Turin, September 2013 (English)
7. On cognitive Law, Economics, and new perspectives of legal theory, lecture at the Scuola
Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, June 2013 (Italian)
8. Pharmaceutical market definitions and related industrial issues, presentation at the
Headquarter for Joint Investigations of Antimonopoly Violations in the CIS
Member-States, Moscow, March 2013 (English)
9. The Xalatan case: evidence on the pharmaceutical industry’s patent strategies from an
Italian antitrust proceedings, presentation at the ECN Pharma Study Group,
European Commission, Bruxelles, October 2012 (English)
10. Regulation and competition, theory and practice: from the OECD Competition Assessment
Toolkit to some practical applications to public utilities, master class at the TSLR
Summer School, Turin, September 2012 (English)
11. Regulation, competition, and public utilities, 6 hours seminar held at the Albanian
Competition Authority, Tirana, September 2012 (English)
12. Fines and Commitments in Italian antitrust enforcement, Post-degree seminar at Luiss
University, Rome, May 2012 (Italian)
13. The Quest for Behavioral Antitrust, presentation at the VII SIDE National Convention,
Turin (Italy), December 2011 (English)
14. An Introduction to the Italian Legal System, lecture at the Syracuse University,
September 2011 (English)
15. Neuroscientific Perspectives for Law and Economics, lecture at the 1st DI.ME.CE.
Symposium, University of Turin, April 2011 (Italian)
16. New Evolutionary Studies, Experimental Method and the Law, presentation at the VI
SIDE National Convention, Bozen (Italy), December 2010 (English)
17. Environmental Public Utilities and Antitrust, master class at the Fondazione per
l’Ambiente, Turin, September 2010 (English)
18. Internationl Antitrust, master class at the Università della Tuscia, Faculty of
Economics, Viterbo (Italy), June 2010 (Italian)
19. Procedural Issues of EU Antitrust, seminar at the Argentinian Competition Authority,
Buenos Aires, April 2010 (Spanish)
20. The Administrative Organization of EU, lecture at the Universidad de Buenos Aires,
April 2010 (Spanish)
21. Principles of Italian Administrative Law, lecture at the Universidad Catolica de Salta,
Salta (Argentina), April 2010 (Spanish)
22. Exclusionary Conducts and the Google Books Program, PhD seminar at Luiss
University, Rome, January 2010 (Italian)
23. In-House Providing of Waste Management Services and Antitrust, seminar at TiForma
Meeting, Florence (Italy), March 2009 (Italian)
24. Water Services Management and Antitrust, seminar at TiForma Meeting, Florence,
February 2009 (Italian)
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25. Public Local Utilities and Competition, master class at the Fondazione per l'Ambiente,
Turin, September 2008 (Italian)
26. Water Markets and European Antitrust, master class at the Università di Roma-Tor
Vergata, Rome, July 2008 (English)
27. Ancillary Restraints and Competition, master class at Università RomaTre, Rome, June
2008 (Italian)
28. Competition Issues of Public Procurement, seminar at the Fair of Public
Administration Euro-PA, Rimini (Italy), June 2008 (Italian)
29. Towards a Competitive Regulation of Public Utilities, seminar at the Fair of Public
Administration-COMPA, Bolonia (Italy), November 2007 (Italian)
30. Competition Issues of Enviromental Law, roundtable at LUSS University, Rome,
December 2005 (Italian)
31. an Introduction to Italian Antitrust, lecture at the Turin Bar Association, Turin, March
2005 (Italian)
32. Energy Markets, Regulation and Antitrust, master class at ESCP-EAP European
School of Management, Turin, December 2004 (English)
33. Energy Markets, Regulation and Antitrust, master class at Università Federico II,
Naples (Italy), October 2004 (Italian)
34. Modes of Payment and International Trade, masterclass at the University Institute of
European Studies, Turin, April 2001 (English)
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
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Writer: author of six books (short stories, travelogues, poetry), several chapbooks
and articles related to contemporary literature.
Art critic and curator. Author of more than 100 articles on Italian art magazines;
curator of more than 30 exhibitions in galleries and museums, in Italy and abroad.
Curriculum Vitae up to date as of May 23, 2014
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