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Andrea Tosato is the Homer R. Mitchell Endowed Professor in Commercial and Insurance Law at ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ Dedman School of Law. His research examines how private law, commercial law, and bankruptcy law govern modern intangible assets, including digital assets, stablecoins, tokenized assets, and verified carbon credits. He is the co-author, with Christopher K. Odinet, of Digital Commercial Law: Private Law in the Age of Tokens, Platforms, and Automation (Oxford University Press 2026).

His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Florida Law Review, Arizona State Law Journal, Alabama Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Boston University Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, Indiana Law Journal, and Law & Contemporary Problems, and, in Europe, in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, European Law Journal, and Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly. His work has been cited by the Bank for International Settlements, the World Bank, the Congressional Research Service, the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Japan's Financial Services Agency, and central banks including the Bank of Italy, Sveriges Riksbank, and the Oesterreichische Nationalbank. The Private Law of Stablecoins (with Kara Bruce and Christopher K. Odinet) received the Grant Gilmore Award of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, and Bankrupt Crypto Organizations (with the same co-authors) received the 2026 Submission of the Year Award from the Southeastern Association of Law Schools.

Professor Tosato is an elected member of the American Law Institute. He was a key contributor to the 2022 Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code, including Article 12 on controllable electronic records, as a member of the joint Uniform Law Commission and American Law Institute Committee on the UCC and Emerging Technologies. He serves as Associate Research Director of the Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code. For the Uniform Law Commission, he served as Reporter for the Virtual Currency Customer Protection Act and serves as Co-Reporter of the Study Committee on Commercial Law Framework for Voluntary Carbon Credits. He is Co-Chair of the Sub-Committee for UCC and Emerging Technologies of the American Bar Association Business Law Section.

Internationally, he is a member of the Drafting Committee of the UNIDROIT Working Group on the Legal Nature of Verified Carbon Credits, for which he authored the memorandum setting out the framework for the instrument's tokenization annex, and a member of the UNIDROIT Centenary Workstream on Financial Markets and Technologies. He previously served on the drafting committee for the UNIDROIT Principles on Digital Assets and Private Law, on the working group that prepared the UNIDROIT Model Law on Warehouse Receipts, and as a delegate of the Italian government to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). He has also been consulted by the Law Commission of England and Wales on its digital assets project. Before joining ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½, he was a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham.