Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci

Degrees

PHD, Bocconi University; JD, Univ Milan; BS, Univ Milan

Bio

Professor Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci specializes in corporate law, with an emphasis on corporate governance, corporate theory, and legal personhood. Professor Gramitto Ricci’s main strand of research investigates how models of share ownership and the corporate governance infrastructure determine the ability of average citizens to participate in the corporate sector. His work in this field has been trailblazing: not just examining structures but exploring different pathways to increase the participation of everyday individuals in corporations’ decisions and profits. He has been analyzing the root causes of shareholding inequality; the relationship between shareholding and societal models; and the market failures that prevent corporate governance from being inclusive. Professor Gramitto Ricci has investigated several mechanisms to make the corporate sector answerable to society as well as the opportunities arising from the fintech-driven resurgence of retail investors as a market game-changer. He has also proposed private ordering solutions and engaged with policymakers to ensure that the stock market remains as accessible as possible for virtually anyone, including underprivileged minorities.

Professor Gramitto Ricci has published in the United States and internationally. His scholarship on retail investors and society-led corporate governance appears or is forthcoming in book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and several law journals such as the Boston University Law Review, the Journal of Corporation Law, and the Washington University Law Review. His standard-bearer article on artificial intelligence and board of directors, titled Artificial Agents in Corporate Boardrooms, is published in the Cornell Law Review. In 2024, Artificial Agents in Corporate Boardrooms was translated and republished in Spanish in the Revista Facultad de Jurisprudencia, in Ecuador. Professor Gramitto Ricci’s work on legal personhood and the nature of corporations appears or is forthcoming in book chapters and law journals, including in the University of California Law Journal.

Professor Gramitto Ricci co-authored the book Citizen Capitalism: How a Universal Fund Can Provide Influence and Income to All. His work has been featured on several media outlets, including Fortune and the Italian CNBC.

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Courses Taught