At the moment, Francesca co-teaches European Contract Law and the Research Training Seminars for the Master of European Law.

Her research explores the ways in which contract drafting, private law adjudication and private law remedies contribute to the design and enforcement of legal norms, rights, and practices and, thus, can be used to shape economic and social dynamics outside traditional law-making settings.

Francesca is especially interested in uncovering how pluralist normative loci force us to re-think the relationship between public and private law, the legitimacy of law-making in transnational and complex legal orders, the impact of legal and non-legal steadying factors on strategic litigation, as well as the role of the access to justice and effective judicial protection at both individual and systemic level. In the field of Law & Technology, she focuses on the re-shaping of individual and collective rights and remedies as an effective way of dealing with the transfer of public interests to private actors, making them transnationally accountable for the de facto regulatory role they play.

The research that Francesca will carry out as an Assistant Professor of European Law at UvA will unfold along three axes: (a) developing a descriptive and normative theory on the use of the principle of effectiveness in private law adjudication; (b) understanding the role of private law remedies in digital platform regulation; (c) constructing innovative conceptual tools which may be used to develop transnationally-valid responses to the social changes connected to economic and normative power of digital corporations.