Federico Ferretti

Contact Details

Law Lecturer

Dr Federico Ferretti
Elliott Jaques Room 058
Brunel University
Uxbridge
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1895 267496
Fax: +44 (0)1895 269875
Email: federico.ferretti@brunel.ac.uk

Related News

Federico Ferretti presented a paper at the Symposium on Credit Scoring & Credit Reporting in Boston - 13 Jun 2012

Federico Ferretti presented a paper at the Symposium on Credit Scoring & Credit Reporting in Boston organised by Suffolk University Law School and the American National Consumer Law Center. Federico offered an European perspective on the policy and legal pitfalls and challenges of credit scoring and credit reporting in the

Induction 2010 - football - 20 Sep 2010

Freshers get the opportunity to face on the football pitch many of the academics that will be teaching them during the next three or four years

Dr Federico Ferretti recent articled in the Journal of Consumer Policy - 25 Jan 2010

Dr Federico Ferretti publishes “A European Perspective on Consumer Loans and the Role of Credit Registries: the Need to Reconcile Data Protection, Risk Management, Efficiency, Over-indebtedness, and a Better Prudential Supervision of the Financial System”

Summary

Qualifications

PhD (Leeds, GB)
MA Contemporary European Studies (Sussex, GB)
LL.M International Commercial Law (Sussex, GB)
University degree ('Laurea') in Law (Bologna, IT)

Student Support

I am chair of the Research Ethics Committee

Teaching and Research

Teaching


Consumer Law
Contract Law
European Union Law

Research Interests

EC Law
Data Protection
Civil Liberties
Consumer Law
Banking and Financial Law
International Business Law

Research Areas

Banking and finance
Comparative law
Consumer law
European Union law
Intellectual property
International trade law
Internet law
Privacy and data protection

Research Groups


IPIMRC Intellectual Property, Internet Media Research Centre

PhD Supervision

Privacy
Data Protection
Consumer Law
IT Law
EU Law

External Activities

External Activities

Federico is a member of the Financial Services User Group (FSUG) - an expert forum set up by the European Commission to improve policy making in the field of financial services from a user perspective (consumer and small business). The FSUG advises the Commission and provides opinions on preparation of legislative acts or other policies affecting users of financial services and their practical implementation.

Publications

Publications

Journal Papers

(Forthcoming) Ferretti, F., The Legal Framework of Consumer Credit Bureaus in the EU: Pitfalls and Challenges. Over-indebtedness, Responsible Lending, Market Integration, and Fundamental Rights, Suffolk University Law Review

(2013) Ferretti, F., Borghi. and Karapapa, S., Online Data Processing Consent Under EU Law: A Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidence from the UK, International Journal of Law and Information Technology

(2012) Ferretti, F., “A European Perspective on Data Processing Consent through the Re-Conceptualisation of European Data Protection’s Looking Glass after the Lisbon Treaty: Taking Rights Seriously”, 20(2) European Review of Private Law 473- 506

(2010) Ferretti, F., The design of an international mobility programme for PG law students at brunel law school: Putting theory and policy into practice, Law Teacher 44 (2) : 181- 194

(2010) Ferretti, F., A European perspective on consumer loans and the role of credit registries: the need to reconcile data protection, risk management, efficiency, over-indebtedness, and a better prudential supervision of the financial system, Journal of Consumer Policy 33 (1) : 1- 27

(2009) Ferretti, F., The 'credit scoring pandemic' and the European vaccine: Making sense of EU data protection legislation, Journal of Information, Law and Technology (2) : 4

(2008) Ferretti, F., Consumer credit information and the abuse of individual rights in the EC: evidence from a legal compliance analysis. (The need for a new European legal and institutional framework), European Consumer Law Journal / Revue Européenne de Droit de la Consommation 1 87- 130

(2008) Ferretti, F., A historical primer on consumer credit reporting systems: A lesson for EU policy makers?, International Journal of Communications Law and Policy 12 92- 119 Download publication

(2008) Ferretti, F., Structural barristers for a European internal market in consumer credit information systems and the European free movement rights: the case for institutional reform, European Journal of Law Reform 10 (3) : 297- 320

(2007) Ferretti, F. and Cerioni, L., “Affari & Commercio con: Belgio” (Doing Business with Belgium), 24 Commercio Internazionale

(2007) Ferretti, F. and Cerioni, L., “Affari & Commercio con: Danimarca” (Doing Business with Denmark), 23 Commercio Internazionale

(2007) Ferretti, F., The regulation of consumer credit information systems: Is the EU missing a chance?, Legal Issues of Economic Integration 34 (2) : 115- 131 Download publication

(2007) Ferretti, F., Consumer credit information systems: a critical review of the literature. Too little attention paid by lawyers?, European Journal of Law and Economics 23 (1) : 71- 88 Download publication

(2006) Ferretti, F., Re-thinking the regulatory environment of credit reporting: could legislation stem privacy and discrimination concerns?, Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 14 (3) : 254- 272 Download publication

(2006) Ferretti, F., The regulation of consumer credit information systems: A lesson from Italy?, European Business Law Review 17 (5) : 1421- 1440 Download publication

(2006) Ferretti, F., The legal standing of consumer credit reporting in the European Community, Banking Law Journal 123 (9) : 835- 859 Download publication

Books

(2008) Ferretti, F., The law and consumer credit information in the European community: the regulation of credit information systems. Routledge-Cavendish

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