Francesco Ducci joined the Faculty of Law in 2021 as an Assistant Professor. His research focuses on competition policy/antitrust law and law & economics more generally. Francesco's work has appeared in several leading journals including the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, the European Journal of Law and Economics and the Canadian Business Law Journal. His book Natural Monopolies in Digital Platform Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2020) applies an economic framework to investigate the nature of market power in big tech sectors and the role of competition policy and regulation in digital markets. In 2022, Francesco was awarded the Best Junior Paper Award by the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) for his article Randomization as an Antitrust Remedy.

Prior to Western, Francesco was a Hauser Global Fellow at New York University and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. Francesco earned his SJD and LLM at the University of Toronto, where he was a Junior Fellow at Massey College. He also holds a law degree from the University of Bologna and was a visitor at King’s College London. Francesco currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Competition Law and Economics (Oxford University Press).