Donato Vese

Donato Vese is an Associate Professor at the University of Pisa and an Academic Fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. Since April 2025, he has been a Professeur invité at the Institut de la Recherche Juridique André Tunc, Sorbonne Université (Panthéon 1 Paris), and, since November 2024, a Investigador visitante at the Departamento de Derecho Administrativo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He holds a PhD in Economics jointly awarded by the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies and the IUSS School of Advanced Studies, an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Trinity College Dublin, and a Master’s degree in Law from the Catholic University of Milan.

Donato Vese’s academic career has included positions at various institutions such as the University of Oxford, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Bologna, the University of Turin, the University of Sannio, the University of Cambridge, and the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg. Since 2017, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Italian journal PA Persona e Amministrazione, published by Urbino University Press, and a scientific reviewer for various journals, including the European Journal of Risk Regulation, published by Cambridge University Press. His research focuses on several areas, including European administrative and public law, behavioural law and economics, EU banking law, environmental law, and public health law. He is the author of three monographs and over one hundred articles published in international peer-reviewed journals.

The project

Title: Public Interests and Financial Crises: A New Legal Analysis of the International Banking System

"How does the regulation of financial crises change and evolve when public interests have the power to shape the rules, organisation, and functions of the international banking system? Although this may seem a radical proposition, attributing such a role to public interests offers new insights into their influence within the international banking system.

In recent years, legal scholars have provided comprehensive and authoritative analyses of the regulation of financial crises, particularly in light of significant developments in positive law. These contributions have led to original and noteworthy advances in legal dogmatics and systematics. Yet, there remains a notable gap in the literature: a lack of scholarship that fully accounts for the deeper forces that have shaped international banking law as it stands today.

This is perhaps best exemplified by EU banking law, where a harmonised and integrated framework of rules and administrative competences has emerged. Public authorities occupy a central role in steering, coordinating, and executing functions that ensure compliance with legally established norms by financial intermediaries.

The motivation for this investigation, however, is not solely to address this gap in existing legal scholarship. Rather, it stems from the observation that the fundamental drivers behind the evolution of the international banking system—in key aspects of its institutional structure, in how it is perceived, and in its transformations within contemporary positive law—remain insufficiently explored and explained."

Hosting institution: Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne – Institut de la Recherche Juridique André Tunc

Selective Bibliography

• Donato Vese, ‘Discretion and the Public Interest: The Case of The European Banking Authority’ The Cambridge Law Journal 4(1) 2025 ff. 1-44.
• Donato Vese Gli interessi pubblici nelle crisi bancarie: per una nuova analisi dell’ordinamento europeo del credito, Wolters Kluwer Law International, 2024, ff. 1-305.
• Donato Vese ‘The Right to Free Speech between Conceptual Evolution, Legal Protection, and Jurisprudential Practice’ The European Review of Public Law 36(3) 2024, ff. 1-40.
• Donato Vese Sull’efficienza amministrativa in senso giuridico Wolters Kluwer Law International (2018) ff. XLIII-505.
• Donato Vese ‘Algorithms, Competition Law, Public Interest’ PA Persona e Amministrazione: Ricerche Giuridiche sull’Amministrazione e l’Economia 13(2) 2023 ff. 1239-1266.
• Donato Vese ‘A Game of Thrones: ruolo e poteri dell’autorità bancaria europea alla luce degli orientamenti della Corte di Giustizia’ Rivista di Diritto Bancario 1(1) 2023 ff. 1-69.