Eighth Session of the UNIDROIT Working Group on Verified Carbon Credits
Participating in the Eighth Session of the Working Group on the Legal Nature of Verified Carbon Credits at UNIDROIT in Rome.
Andrea Tosato
Professor of Law · SMU Dedman School of Law
Private law, commercial law, and the legal architecture of modern intangible assets.
News
The Moneyness of Stablecoins forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal
New article with Christopher K. Odinet and Yesha Yadav, developing an original framework for stablecoin moneyness.
Bankrupt Crypto Organizations wins SEALS Submission of the Year Award
The co-authored article, forthcoming in the North Carolina Law Review, has been selected as the 2026 Submission of the Year by the Southeastern Association of Law Schools.
Elected to the American Law Institute
Elected to membership in the American Law Institute, one of the highest honours in the American legal profession.
About
A private law and commercial law scholar, examining how legal frameworks developed for tangible property adapt to assets that are intangible, programmable, and distributed. Current work addresses digital assets, stablecoins, and verified carbon credits, at the intersection of secured transactions and bankruptcy.
Contributor to the 2022 Amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code, member of the UNIDROIT drafting committees on digital assets and verified carbon credits, co-reporter for the Uniform Law Commission Study Committee on a Commercial Law Framework for Voluntary Carbon Credits, and Associate Research Director of the Permanent Editorial Board for the UCC. Elected to the American Law Institute in 2025.
Writing
Articles · recent
- Andrea Tosato, Christopher K. Odinet, Yesha Yadav, The Moneyness of Stablecoins, 136 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2026).
- Kara Bruce, Christopher Odinet, Andrea Tosato, Bankrupt Crypto Organizations, 104 North Carolina Law Review (forthcoming 2026).
- Christopher Odinet, Andrea Tosato, Digital Assets and the Property Question, 78 Florida Law Review (forthcoming 2026).
Shorter writings
- Andrea Tosato, Christopher K. Odinet, Seeing the Intangible: Juliet Moringiello's Enduring Legacy in Property Law, American Bankruptcy Law Review (forthcoming 2026).
- Andrea Tosato, Christopher Odinet, Regulating Centralized Stablecoins: Comparing MiCAR and the GENIUS Act, Notre Dame Law Review Reflection (forthcoming 2026).
- Andrea Tosato, Christopher Odinet, Tokenized Real Estate: The Law and Tech of Digital Deeds, Ohio State Law Journal Online (forthcoming 2026).