Lorenzo del Federico graduated with honors in the Faculty of Law at the University of Bologna in 1983.
He worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bologna and taught in the Master’s degree “A. Berliri” in Tax Law (1993-2001).
At the moment he is Full Professor in the University of Chieti-Pescara where he also works as co-director of the Master in Tax Law and in the PhD program.
He has been a Member of Committees and Working Groups at the Italian Government and at the Ministry of Economy and Finance for significant reforms.
He is a Member of Scientific Committees and of executive bodies of several reviews. Moreover, he is co-founder and co-director of the Rivista Trimestrale di Diritto Tributario (Tax Law Quarterly) and of the scientific series Il Diritto Tributario Italiano ed Europeo; he is also a referee for the scientific books of the IBFD and for the World Tax Journal.
In the years 2013, 2014 and 2015 he has been a Member of the Directive Committee of AIPDT (Ass.ne Italiana Professori di Diritto Tributario).
He has been member of Doctoral Committee in the University of Catania, in the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, in the University of Salamanca, in the University of Barcellona “Pompeu Fabra", in the University “Alma Mater Studiorum” of Bologna, in the University “LUISS Guido Carli” of Rome.
He has been lecturer in several conferences, of national and international significance. Among the most important conferences: the annual conference of EATLP (European Association of Tax Law Professors) in Caserta (2005), the conference of ILADT (Instituto Latinoamericano de Derecho Tributario) in Perù (2014), the annual conference of EATLP in Milan (2015), the conference of ILADT in Mexico City (2015), in Santa Cruz de La Sierra (2016), in Montevideo (2018).
He has published four monographs and more than 300 contributions in Italian, English and Spanish and an English volume.
He also has researched in Comparative Law in different aspects of Tax Law and He is active member of international scientific and professional associations on Tax Law.
He has published in all Tax Law field and, particularly, in taxpayer’s rights, exchange of information, public finance and tax state aid, Digital Economy and taxation, European Tax Law.
He promoted and coordinated two research projects of international relevance: “Tax Implications of Environmental Disaster and Pollution” and “Public Finance and Tax Measures for the Cultural Heritage”.
He also participated two European Jean Monnet project carried by Professor Villar Ezcurra, CEU San Pablo University- Madrid (2015-2016), on “Energy taxation”, and Professor Bilbao Estrada in CEU Cardenal Herrera University- Valencia (2019-2021) on “Digitalisation of Tax Administrations”.
He has been visiting Professor at the University UPEC of Paris (France), at the Cantabria University of Santander (Spain) and at the IBFD of Amsterdam.
