CODAZZI ELISABETTA

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Data:
Name: Elisabetta Codazzi
Place and date of birth: Milan, June 22, 1975
Nationality: Italian


Academic activities and training
(2025)

Lecturer in commercial law and industrial and intellectual property law on the Law Degree course at the University of Insubria (Varese).

Scientific organization of the conference on “Dialogue with stakeholders and corporate sustainability. Ideas for discussion,” University of Insubria, Como, December 12, 2025, with a presentation entitled “Consultation with stakeholders, statutory autonomy, and directors' duties.”

Scientific organization of the Di.DEC Research Day on “States, people, and businesses in a world in transition,” Como, October 6, 2025, with a presentation entitled “Publicly owned benefit corporations as a tool for promoting environmental and territorial sustainability.”

Participation in the 16th National Conference of the Italian Association of University Professors of Commercial Law “Horizons of Commercial Law,” “States, businesses, markets in a world seeking new balances,” Rome, February 21-22, 2025, presenting a paper entitled “The responsibility of the public shareholder beyond the screen of the in-house company: some considerations in light of a recent ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.”

Speaks at the seminar “Governance of companies with ‘balanced’ profitability. The case of benefit corporations,” organized on April 28, 2025, at the University of Turin, in the occasion of the presentation of E. Codazzi's book (“La società benefit. Un modello di gestione cd. multistakeholder,” Naples, 2024) with a report entitled “Benefit corporations as a so-called multistakeholder management model.”

Speaks at the Industrial and Intellectual Property Day at the University of Insubria (“Insubria ID Day”), Varese, January 17, 2025, on “Intellectual property and artisanal and industrial geographical indications.”

Lecturer on the training course on “Publicly owned companies,” University of Milan, lecture on “Listed publicly owned companies,” Milan, February 25, 2025.

Lecture on “Publicly owned companies and governance models,” as part of the PhD program in “Systems Dynamics,” affiliated with the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Palermo, March 17, 2025.

Speaker on the program Spazio economia – Teams TV, May 28, 2025, at 7:00 p.m., on “Voluntary ESG business models: benefit corporations.”

Training activity on “Withdrawal clauses and criteria for the liquidation of the outgoing shareholder's shareholding,” webinar organized by Convenia, October 8, 2025.

(2024)
Lecturer in commercial law and industrial and intellectual property law on the Law Degree course at the University of Insubria (Varese).
Member of the PhD program in “Law and Human Sciences” at the University of Insubria (since November 1, 2023).
Lecture as part of the PhD program in “Law and Human Sciences,” affiliated with the Disuit Department of the University of Insubria, on “The role of business and the challenges of sustainability between domestic law and new European perspectives,” Como, December 4, 2024.
Member of the Association of Commercial Law Professors “Orizzonti del Diritto Commerciale” (Horizons of Commercial Law).
Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg (September 17-30, 2024).
Invited research period at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), London, UK, May 13-20, 2024.
Speaker at the conference “Publicly owned companies and corporate crises: governance models and prevention tools,” Varese, November 28, 2024.

(2023)
Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg (September 18-28, 2023)
Member of the P.R.I.N. “Sustainable development and Agenda 2030: gender balance, gender certification, and reporting,” Principal Investigator, Prof. Mia Callegari, University of Turin.
Lecture at the PhD program in “Business and Law,” University of Brescia, November 29, 2023, on “ESG criteria in the framework of Banking and Financial Law.”
Lecture at the PhD program “European Legal and Economic Order” at the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro on "The benefit corporation as a model of sustainable business management (June 15, 2023).
Participates as a speaker at the seminar on “Benefit corporations,” organized by the University of Verona, Vicenza campus, October 20, 2023 (title of the presentation: “Common benefit objectives, achievable objectives, internal organization of the company”).
Speaks at the conference “Current events and prospects for the ‘public-private’ dialectic in the Consolidated Law on Publicly Owned Companies” (University of Padua, Padua, October 13, 2023) on the topic of “The business crisis of publicly owned companies.”
Participate in the annual conference of the Italian Association of Commercial Law Professors ODC “Businesses, markets, and sustainability: new challenges for commercial law,” Rome, May 26-27, 2023, as discussant of the paper by Irrera-Scarabelli, Sustainability committees in the governance of listed companies: between management and control functions.
Organization and participation as a speaker at the Conference on “Publicly owned companies, models, and responsibilities: ideas for discussion in light of the latest developments in case law and legislation,” University of Milan, Milan, May 12, 2023.

(2022)
Lecturer in commercial law and industrial and intellectual property law on the Law Degree course at the University of Insubria (Varese).
Participates in the conference on “The sustainability of business activities,” Venice, September 28, 2022, with a presentation entitled “Benefit corporations and sustainability.”
Speaks at the DiDEC Research Day 2022, Como, September 16, 2022, with a presentation entitled “Sustainability objectives in business law.”
Visiting scholar at the Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privat- und Wirtschaftsrecht- Universität Heidelberg (July 21-31, 2022) to develop a research project on “Corporate Sustainability and Directors' duties in German Company law.”
Member of the “Fashion and Sustainability” Research Center at the University of Insubria.
Doctoral lecture on “The so-called CDP s.p.a. relaunch,” at the Department of Law, University of Bari “A. Moro,” May 20, 2022.
Lecture on “Holding companies and family business groups,” a series of in-depth meetings on “Inheritance law: typical and atypical instruments for the transfer of assets to future generations,” University of Insubria, March 23, 2022.

(2021)
Starting from May 1st as Associate Professor of Commercial Law at Università degli Studi dell'Insubria. Assignment of the courses of commercial law and industrial and intellectual property law.
Membership in the Association of Professors of Commercial Law "Horizons of Commercial Law".
Participation in the Conference "Crisis of enterprise: perspectives and opportunities in the light of new regulations", Varese, October 15, 2021, as a speaker on "Duties of organization and crisis prevention in public companies".

Participation in the Webinar organized by the Research Center "Law, Media, Information and Society" of the University of Insubria, "Social Networks between anarchy, responsible use and censorship. Which deontology and which rights for information?" (April 28, 2021), with a speech on "The role of business in the education of values: the case of IT companies".

(2019-2020)
Assignment of the teaching of commercial law and industrial and intellectual property law, at the University of Insubria - Master of Science in Law degree course, as aggregate professor.

(2020)
Participation in the webinar on "The secret between legal protections and freedom of information", organized by the Research Center "Law, Media, Information and Society" of the University of Insubria, on 5.11.2020, with a speech on "the trade secret".
Organizer of the conference (webinar) on "Le società benefit" of October 16, 2020 (at the Faculty of Law, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, Milan), where she participates as a speaker (title of the report: "L'organizzazione interna delle società benefit")-
Speaker at the XI Annual Conference of the Italian Association of University Professors of Commercial Law "Horizons of commercial law", Rome, 14-15 February 2020, with a report entitled "Benefit companies and pursuit of the common benefit: some considerations on the organization".
Training event at the Bar Association of Varese on the subject of "Companies between lawyers" (Varese, 21.02.2020).

(2019)
Speaker at the conference organized by Società Lombarda degli avvocati amministrativisti "Società a partecipazione pubblica e affidamenti in house: il difficile connubio tra l'attività amministrativa e il mercato concorrenziale", Milan, 29.11.2019, presenting a report entitled "Il fenomeno delle società in house: genesi, tendenze ed ultimi approdi normative e giurisprudenziali".
(2019- 2007)
Aggregate professor of commercial law at the course of Laurea magistrale in Giurisprudenza (Varese), Università degli Studi dell'Insubria.
(2019)
Visiting Professor at Berkeley Law School for in-depth study on the topic of "benefit corporations" in California (June 2019).
Participates as a speaker at the conference organized by the Commission on Tax Justice on "The company between lawyers", Milan, April 10, 2019, presenting a report entitled "Civil and corporate aspects of the company between lawyers".
Member of the Research and Study Center "Law, Media, Information and Society" established at the University of Insubria.
(2018)
Achievement of the qualification as associate professor (II fascia) in commercial law (12/B1) on 8.08.2018.
Visiting Professor at the Chicago Law School to deepen the theme of the "benefit corporation" in the U.S. legal system (September 2018).
Scientific direction and organization of the Conference "Le società a partecipazione pubblica: spunti per una discussione ad un anno dal decreto correttivo n. 100/2017", at the University of Milan, July 6, 2018, presenting a paper on "Società in house e assetti organizzativi delle società di capitali sottoposte a controllo analogo".
Academic member of the European Corporate Govenance Institute (ECGI).
Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Law and Society.

(2017)
Participates as a speaker at the Conference on "The discipline of public companies: the amendment of the Consolidated Act (Legislative Decree no. 175/2016) and the need for transparency", Rome Chamber of Commerce, July 14, 2017, with a report entitled "Bankruptcy of the in house company and duties of directors in the presence of signs of corporate crisis (art. 14, paragraph 2, t.u.)".
Participates as a speaker at the VII National Conference of the Italian Association of University Professors of Commercial Law Horizons of Commercial Law, Rome February 17-18, 2017, with a report entitled The "new" in house companies: analogous control and organizational structures between the specialty of the discipline and "proportionality of derogations".
Member of the scientific editorial board of the journal Orizzonti del diritto commerciale.
Member of the HRS4R Focus Group Human Resources Strategy for Reserchers at the University of Insubria.
Lecturer in the Altalex Short Master on succession law (lesson of 17.11.17 on company law)
Visiting academic at Harvard Law School
Granted an international mobility grant to conduct research on "benefit corporations" at Chicago Law School
1999 - 2017)
Collaborates with the chair of commercial law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Milan

(2016)
Member of the editorial board of Giurisprudenza commerciale
Member of the editorial board of Il diritto dell'economia.
Participates as a speaker at the VII National Conference of the Italian Association of University Professors of Commercial Law Orizzonti del Diritto Commerciale, Rome, on February 26-27, 2016, with a paper entitled "Shareholders and the company in the European model of governance: the case of the so-called "say on pay" in Italian listed companies".
Awarded an international mobility grant to conduct research on "government corporations" at Harvard Law School
(2015)
Aggregate professor in competition law at the Faculty of Law, University of Insubria
Visiting academic at the London School of Economics (LSE)

(2014)
Member of the Board of Examiners of Lawyers at the Court of Appeal of Milan.
Participates as a speaker at the V National Conference of the Italian Association of University Professors of Commercial Law Horizons of Commercial Law, in Rome, 21-22 February 2014, with a report entitled "The company in public hands and bankruptcy: some considerations on the applicable discipline between business law and company law".
Awarded the international researcher mobility grant given by the University of Insubria to carry out a research on "say on pay" at the London School of Economics (LSE).

(2013)
Participation as speaker at the Conference "Le società tra professionisti" organized by Convenia, Milan, 25 and 26 June 2013, report entitled "Le società tra avvocati nel d.lgs. n. 96/2001".
Participates in the IV National Conference of the Italian Association of University Professors of Commercial Law Horizons of Commercial Law, Enterprise and market between liberalization and rules", Rome, 22-23 February 2013. Title of the report: "La società tra avvocati e dintorni":qualche considerazione sulla disciplina applicabile in materia di società tra professionisti tra liberalizzazione dei servizi professionali e prospettive di riforma".

(2010)
(September) Visiting academic at New York University, Law School (in-depth studies on "Practical application of fiduciary duties in the U.S. legal system, with particular reference to the figure of the controlling shareholder and creditor").
Collaborates with the chair of commercial law and banking and stock exchange law at the Faculty of Law, University of Milan.

(2009)
Lecturer at the training course for lawyers organized by AIAF, in collaboration with the Bar Association of Como and Monza on "The employment relationship between spouses.
Lecturer at the training course for lawyers held by DLA Piper Milan and Rome on corporate reform.

(2008)
Visiting academic at Complutense University of Madrid (for studies on the figure of the "administrador de hecho") (November) and at Cambridge University, Faculty of Law (for studies on "shadow director") (June).

(2006)
Researcher of Commercial Law at the University of Insubria, Faculty of Law.

(since 12. 02. 2004) Member of the Milan Bar Association.

(2003-2005) Researcher in commercial law at the University of Milan.

(2004)
PhD in Commercial Law. Title of doctoral thesis: "The right of information of the shareholders in the presence of the activity of direction and coordination of companies".

(2003) Contract Professor at the Master of Business Law (M.E.D.I.)- established by the University L.I.U.C. of Castellanza on corporate law and financial markets.

(2000- 2003) Enrolled in the PhD program in commercial law at the University of Brescia.

(2000) Visiting academic at Cardiff Law School (in-depth study of legal partnerships in the United Kingdom).

(2000- 2001) Attendance of the Specialization Course for forensic professions at the University of Milan.

(1999-2000) Awarded the scholarship Fondazione F.lli Confalonieri for in-depth studies on "Intellectual professions, competition and society".

(1998) Graduated at the Faculty of Law of the University of Milan (IV year of course), with vote 110/110 cum laude.
Thesis discussed in commercial law with Prof. Pier Giusto Jaeger, with the title "The company between professionals: reform projects and new perspectives for the intellectual professions between competition and market".
(1994- 1995) Enrolment in the Law degree course (business address) at the University of Milan.

(1994) Classical high school diploma at the Liceo Ginnasio "P. VERRI" in Lodi.


Publications:
- Scopo di lucro e di beneficio comune nel passaggio da società non benefit a società benefit, in Riv.ODC, 2021, 1243 ss.

- Società in house in crisi e gravi irregolarità gestionali: alcuni spunti sulla disciplina applicabile, in Giur.comm., 2021, II, 1135

- Sulla responsabilità da direzione e coordinamento dell’ente pubblico holding, in Soc., 2021, 823 ss.

- Il cambio di maggioranza politica come giusta causa di revoca dei componenti degli organi sociali di società a partecipazione pubblica, in Soc., 2021, 19 ss.

- Società benefit (di capitali) e bilanciamento di interessi: alcune considerazioni sull’organizzazione interna, in Riv. ODC, 2020, 589 ss.

- Codazzi- Goisis, Ancora sullo scopo di lucro nelle società a partecipazione pubblica: spunti alla luce della disciplina sulle società benefit, in Dir. ec., 2020, 475 ss.

- Start up innovativa ed esenzione “a tempo” dall’area di fallibilità: precisazioni sull’inizio del quinquennio ex art. 31, commi 1 e 4, D.L. n. 179/2012, in Soc., 2020, 559 ss.

- Esercizio del controllo analogo sulle s.p.a. in house e clausole di deroga all’art. 2380-bis, c.c., in Giur.comm., 2019, II, 1494 ss.

- Cancellazione di start up innovativa dalla sezione speciale del registro delle imprese per perdita del requisito di innovatività, in Soc., 2019, 1375 ss.

-Le società per l'esercizio della professione forense: questioni aperte e prospettive, in Soc., 2019, p. 1195 ss.

- L’assetto organizzativo delle società sottoposte a controllo analogo: alcune considerazioni sull’in house providing tra specialità della disciplina e “proporzionalità delle deroghe”, in Dir.ec., 2019, 125 ss.

- Una pronuncia della Cassazione su finanziamenti cd. “indiretti” e presupposti della postergazione ex art. 2467 c.c., in Soc., 2019, 803 ss.

- Società in house e scopo di lucro: una rivisitazione del tema alla luce del d.lgs., n. 175/2016, in Riv.dir.comm., 2018, II, 721 ss.

- La società in house: La configurazione giuridica tra autonomia e strumentalità, Napoli, 2018 (opera monografica)

- Note in tema di controllo congiunto su società in house pluripartecipata (nota a Cons. Stato, 18 luglio 2017, n. 3554), in Giur.comm., 2018, II, 630 ss.

- Le società miste, in AA.VV., Le società a partecipazione pubblica, diretto da Ibba-Demuro, Bologna, 2018, 277 ss.

- Nomina pubblica alle cariche sociali ex art. 2449 c.c. e giurisdizione applicabile: l’orientamento delle Sezioni unite alla luce del testo unico sulle società partecipate, in Giur.comm., 2017, II, 817 ss.

- La crisi d’impresa di società a partecipazione pubblica, in AA.VV., Le società pubbliche nel Testo Unico, a cura di Cerioni, Milano, 2017, 395 ss. (parr. 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8).

- Il voto degli azionisti sulle politiche di remunerazione degli amministratori: la disciplina italiana e il modello comunitario di “say on pay”, in Riv. O.D.C., 2016, 3 ss.

- Società in house providing, in Giur.comm., 2016, II, 953 ss.

- Enti pubblici e direzione e coordinamento di società: considerazioni alla luce dell'art. 2497, comma 1, c.c., in Giur.comm., 2015, I, p. 1041 ss

- La giurisdizione sulle società cd. in house: spunti per una riflessione sul tema tra “anomalia” del modello e (in)compatibilità con il diritto societario, nota a Cass., Sez.Un., 25 novembre 2013, n. 26283, in Giur.comm., 2015, II, p. 236 ss.

- Società in mano pubblica e fallimento, in Giur.comm, 2015, I, p. 74 ss.

- Commento all’art. 2545-quinquiesdecies, in Commentario del Codice civile- Delle Società, Dell’Azienda, Della Concorrenza, a cura di U. Santosuosso, Utet, Torino, 2014, p. 589 ss.

- Le società tra avvocati tra vecchia e nuova disciplina. Alcune considerazioni alla luce dell’art. 5, legge n. 247/2012, in Le Società, 2014, p. 29 ss.

- La società tra professionisti e il regime di responsabilità dei soci per l’esercizio dell’attività professionale. Qualche considerazione sul tema alla luce dei principi sulle liberalizzazioni dei servizi professionali, in O.D.C.C., 2013, p. 313 ss.

- L’ingerenza nella gestione delle società di capitali tra “atti” e “attività”. Profili in tema di responsabilità, Milano, Giuffrè, 2012 (opera monografica).

- La Società “Professionista”. Modelli di disciplina e considerazioni di sistema, Varese, 2012 (opera monografica).

- La società tra professionisti: l'oggetto sociale (parr. 4-6), su Le Società, 2012, n. monografico, p. 5 ss.

- Controllo giudiziario e cooperative a responsabilità limitata: alcune considerazioni sul tema (nota a Trib. Salerno 22 febbraio 2011), in Giur.comm., 2012, II, p. 422 ss.

- Commento agli artt. 2415-2420 c.c., in A.A.V.V., Commentario delle società, a cura di G. Grippo, Torino, 2009, tomo primo, p. 709 s.s.

- Commento all’art. 2445 c.c., in A.A.V.V., Commentario delle società, a cura di G. Grippo, Torino, 2009, tomo secondo, p. 866 s.s.

- Bancarotta fraudolenta e vantaggi compensativi: alcune riflessioni sul concetto di “distrazione” nei gruppi, in Giur.comm., 2008, I, p. 764 s.s.

- Il controllo dei soci di s.r.l.: considerazioni sulla derogabilità dell’art. 2476, comma 2, c.c., in Giur. Comm., 2006, II, p. 685 s.s.

- “Vantaggi compensativi e infedeltà patrimoniale (dalla compensazione “virtuale” alla compensazione “reale”): alcune riflessioni alla luce della riforma del diritto societario” (nota a Cass., 7 ottobre 2003, n. 38110) in Giur.comm., 2004, II, p. 599 s.s.

- Note in tema di collegialità e di invalidità delle delibere assembleari nelle società personali (nota a Cass. sez. I civ. 7 giugno 2002, n. 8276), in Giur. comm., 2004, II, p. 133 s.s.

- Note in tema di associazioni professionali e di esclusione del professionista per gravi inadempienze dei propri doveri professionali (nota a Trib. Milano, 13 dicembre 2001), in Giur.comm., 2002, II, p. 718 s.s.

- Osservazioni sul diritto di ispezione del socio ex art. 2422 e sui limiti al suo esercizio (nota a Cass. sez. I civ. 20 giugno 2000, n. 8370), in Giur. comm., 2002, II, p. 606 s.s.

- Alcuni brevi commenti al Decreto legislativo 2 febbraio 2001, n. 96 in tema di società di avvocati, in Giur. comm., 2001, I, p. 303 s.s.

- La legal partnership nell'esperienza del Regno Unito: alcuni spunti in tema di società tra avvocati, in Giur. comm., 2001, I, p. 70 s.s.

- Le professioni intellettuali alla svolta dell'Europa: tariffe professionali, impresa e società alla luce di nuovi percorsi interpretativi (nota a App. Torino sez. I civ. 11 luglio 1998), in Giur.comm., 1999, II, p. 304 s.s.


Foreign Languages

English: good knowledge of the spoken and written language, obtained through numerous stays of study in Anglo-Saxon countries and thanks to the frequent professional use.