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Rosa Giovanna Barresi, LL.M.(FU), is a corporate and financial law lawyer, and member of the Rome Bar. She is an adjunct professor for Blockchain and Economic Law of Digital Assets at the School of Economics and Management, MSc in Accounting Auditing & Control at the University of Florence, and a research associate of the research unit BABEL (Blockchains and Artificial Intelligence for Business, Economics, and Law) at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Florence, where she also lectured in the Economics and Law of Digital Assets (ELDA) course. She holds a Master in Laws (LL.M.) in Banking, Corporate & Finance Law from Fordham University School of Law, in New York (2005), where she worked at the international law firms Covington & Burling LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. She is an individual Fellow of the European Law Institute (ELI), a member of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), an Expert of the Digital Euro Association (DEA), and a member of the Digital Asset Task Force (DAFT)—Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime. She founded “Amerigo For Law” a collaborative learning program in US Law for European lawyers and managers held in 2017, 2018, 2019 in New York City, Washington DC, and Boston in collaboration with Fordham University School of Law; American University - Washington College of Law; Georgetown University - Institute of International Economic Law; Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management. Her research is focused on digital assets with particular regard to Central Bank Digital Currencies and personal payment devices. She lectured at many international conferences and authored publications in her field of research.
LATEST PUBLICATIONS:
1. RG Barresi, The Regulatory Challenges of Stablecoins: The Multi-Issuance Scheme, in The Tokenized Economy: Regulatory Challenges and Interdisciplinary Responses, G. Giappichelli, 2026, Studies in Market Regulation Series – Economic Realities and Legal Experience, International Edition, vol. 1, ISBN/EAN 979-12-211-1815-5, ISBN/EAN 979-12-211-8346-7 (ebook-pdf), https://www.giappichelli.it/media/catalog/product/openaccess/9791221183467.pdf
2. RG Barresi, Stablecoins in Search of Soundness, in I. Fernández Torres (ed.) La transformación digital de los mercados financieros, La LEY, 2026, 629, ISBN: 9791388078118, 9791388078125
3. RG Barresi, The GENIUS Act, in M.-T. Paracampo (ed.), Beyond MiCA. An Overview of Developments on Crypto-Assets, G. Giappichelli, 2025, 191, Diritto dell'Economia series, no. 79, ISBN/EAN 979-12-211-1737-0ISBN/EAN 979-12-2118307-8 (ebook), https://www.giappichelli.it/media/catalog/product/openaccess/9791221183078.pdf
4. F. Zatti and RG Barresi, La regolazione europea dei pagamenti digitali, in Tratado de Derecho de la Sociedad Digital, Javier Wenceslao Ibáñez Jiménez (ed.), Vol. 1, 2025, ISBN 9788429029246, pp. 759-802. Reuss · 1 September 2025
5. F. Zatti and RG Barresi, The Digital Euro Package: from Legal Tender to Payment Services Providers, in C. Pastor Sempere (ed.), Governance and Control of Data and Digital Economy in the European Single Market, Springer, January 2025, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-74889-9_15#citeas
6. F. Zatti and RG Barresi (ed.), Digital Assets and the Law, Fiat Money in the Era of Digital Currency, Giappichelli-Routledge, January 2024, ISBN 9781032192277, https://digitalassetsandthelaw.com/meetthebook
7. RG Barresi, The Evolution of the Finality of Payment or ‘How RTGSes, Instant Payment Systems and DLT Platforms Change the Concept of Money’ in F. Zatti and RG Barresi (ed.), Digital Assets and the Law, Fiat Money in the Era of Digital Currency, Routledge, 2024, 253, ISBN 9781032192277
8. F. Zatti and RG Barresi, Beyond Digital Assets: What is Next for Money and Payments? in F. Zatti and RG Barresi (ed.), Digital Assets and the Law, Fiat Money in the Era of Digital Currency, Routledge, 2024, 345, ISBN 9781032192277
9. RG Barresi, La Confidentialité des Paiements: Du XVIIIème siècle à l'euro numérique, Les monnaies numériques et les cryptoactifs, Revue d'Economie Financiere, 2023, n. 149, 257, ISBN 978-2-37647-081-6 https://www.aefr.eu/fr/article/4033-payment-confidentiality-from-the-18th-century-to-the-digital-euro
10. RG Barresi and F. Zatti, From Wallets to Universal Access Device, in “Cryptoassets, DeFi Regulation and DLT: Proceedings of the 2nd Token World Conference”, Derecho de Blockchain y Digilizaciòn de La Sociedad (Reus, Madrid), 2023, 127, ISBN:9788429027044, DOI: 10.30462/9788429027044 https://www.editorialreus.es/libros/cryptoassets-defi-regulation-and-dlt-proceedings-of-the-ii-token-world-conference/9788429027044/
11. RG Barresi et al., Dai servizi di pagamento ai token: sinergie con il mondo dello sport, in Sport e Rivoluzione Digitale: analisi e riflessioni, V. Zambrano (ed.), Wolters Kluwer, May 2022, pp. 117-147, ISBN 9788813380106
12. F. Zatti and RG Barresi, La futura gobernanza del sistema monetario internacional: primeras consideraciones sobre el papel del euro digital. In: coord. per Apolònia Martínez Nadal, María Jesús Blanco Sánchez, Marina Echebarría Sáenz; Carmen Pastor Sempere (dir.), Apolònia Martínez Nadal (pr.). Dinero Digital y Gobernanza TIC en la UE, 2022, pp. 397-424 Aranzadi, ISBN:978841391300, https://www.thomsonreuters.es/es/tienda/duo-papel-ebook/dinero-digital-y-gobernanza-tic-en-la-euduo/p/10019046
13. RG Barresi, Dall’identità digitale all’identità sportiva, Il Nuovo Diritto delle Società, 9/2023, 1239, September 2023, ISSN 2039-6880 https://www.nuovodirittodellesocieta.it/Article/Archive/index_html?ida=1062&idn=175&idi=-1&idu=-1
14. RG Barresi, F. Zatti et al., Ahead of the Digital Euro, Public Digital Euro, Working Group Recommendations, Digital Euro Association, 16 August 2022, https://7869715.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/7869715/New%20-%20Public%20DEA%20Working%20Group%20Paper.pdf
15. RG Barresi, Intelligenza artificiale e mercati finanziari, Teoria e Prassi del diritto, ESI, 2/2022, 425, ISSN 2974-623X https://edizioniesi.it/e-shop/estratti-pdf/teoria-e-prassi-del-diritto/teoria-e-prassi-del-diritto-2022/teoria-e-prassi-del-diritto-2-2022/intelligenza-artificiale-e-mercati-finanziari.html
16. RG Barresi, I Digital Asset: un ponte tra il settore finanziario ed il mondo dello sport, Diritto dell'Impresa, Il Nuovo Diritto delle Società,11/2022, 1 December 2022, ISSN 2039-6880https://www.nuovodirittodellesocieta.it//Article/Archive/index_html?ida=955&idn=163&idi=-1&idu=-1
17. F. Zatti and RG Barresi, Digital Angels für den digitalen Euro, Rethinking Law, 4. 2021, 39-45, ISSN:2625-6878
18. RG Barresi and F. Zatti, The importance of where Central Bank Digital Currencies are custodied: exploring the need of a Universal Access Device, SSRN, November 2, 2020 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3691263 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3691263
19. The impact of Monetary Union and the Euro on European Capital Markets: What may be Achieved in Capital Market Integration, 28.4 Fordham International Law Journal, 1257, 2005 ISSN: 0747-9395, https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ilj/vol28/iss4/13/
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Rosa Giovanna Barresi, LL.M.(FU), is a corporate and financial law lawyer, member of the Rome Bar. She is an adjunct professor for Blockchain and Economic Law of Digital Assets at the School of Economics and Management, MSc in Accounting Auditing & Control at the University of Florence, and a research associate of the research unit BABEL (Blockchains and Artificial Intelligence for Business, Economics, and Law) at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Florence, where she also lectured in the Economics and Law of Digital Assets (ELDA) course. She holds a Master in Laws (LL.M.) in Banking, Corporate & Finance Law from Fordham University School of Law, in New York (2005), where she worked at the international law firms Covington & Burling LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. She is an individual Fellow of the European Law Institute (ELI), a member of the Society for the Advancement of the Socio-Economics (SASE), an Expert of the Digital Euro Association (DEA), and a member of the Digital Asset Task Force (DAFT)—Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime. She founded “Amerigo For Law” a collaborative learning program in US Law for European lawyers and managers held in 2017, 2018, 2019 in New York City, Washington DC, and Boston in collaboration with Fordham University School of Law; American University - Washington College of Law; Georgetown University - Institute of International Economic Law; Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management. Her research is focused on digital assets with particular regard to Central Bank Digital Currencies and personal payment devices. She lectured at many international conferences and authored publications in her field of research.
