Postgraduate Research Student funded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID)
Liverpool Law School
Biography
Franco obtained a Legal and Social Sciences degree from the University of Frontera, Chile (2017), gaining a distinction and graduating with the highest mark in his cohort. In 2018, he completed a Diploma in Consumer Law with highest distinction. In 2022, he earned a Master of Laws at the University of Melbourne. Franco was awarded two Becas Chile (Chilean National Agency, ANID) scholarships to pursue his LLM and PhDs studies. He is also a qualified lawyer by the Chilean Supreme Court (2019).
Before coming to Liverpool, he practiced with a leading law firm that advises private companies in Chile and China; specifically, Franco worked as an in-house lawyer for a subsidiary of State Grid Corporation of China, practicing corporate law and compliance with a focus on the electricity market.
Research
During his undergraduate studies, Franco served as a research assistant in various academic projects while also acting as a teaching assistant in Law & Economics, Competition Law, and Private Law (Fundamentals of Private Law, Property, and Obligations).
Franco’s academic interests focus on the intersection between competition, consumer, and data protection law, with particular emphasis on developing new standards in competition law to address the risks of big data in digital markets.
Supervisors
Publications
Book Chapter
Maria Morales and Franco Veloso, ‘Unfair Terms in Law N° 19.496: Law, Doctrine and Jurisprudence’ in Pamela Mendoza and María Morales (eds) Consumer Law: Law, Doctrine, and Jurisprudence, (Der 2019) ISBN 978-956-9959-48-6