- Forthcoming (2025): ‘Open Banking, Distilling Data: what Data belongs to Consumers and what Data does not?’ European Consumer Law Congress, Montpellier February 27 2025.
- (2024): ‘Relational Contract Theory as a Potential Theoretical Framework to Embed Circular Economy Principles: an Exploration to Achieve Sustainable Supply Chains’, The London Centre for Commercial and Financial Law (LCF): The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform, Eighth Annual Conference, London
- (2024) Presenter in Webinar : ‘Cryptoassets and the Law: Understanding Blockchain’ LexisNexis SA
- (2024) Presenter in Webinar : ‘The Evolution of Contracts, What are Smart Contracts’ LexisNexis SA
- (2023) Speaker at Conference : ‘Can Relational Contract Theory be Pragmatically Customised to Framework Long-term Commercially Circular Relationships’ University of Copenhagen, Denmark,
- (2023) Guest Speaker : ‘Blockchain Smart Contracts, Circular Economy and Servitisation, Lessons Learnt’ Queens University Belfast
- (2023) Presenter in Webinar : ‘Regulatory Aspects of Circular Economy’ Business School, University of Exeter
- (2023) Speaker at Conference : ‘What is a Smart Contract Really’ Blockchain and Law Conference, hosted by Exeter University Business School
- (2023) Speaker at Conference : ‘When Smart Contracts meet Circular Economy: The Complexities of Drafting an on-chain Servitisation Agreements’ Biennual Modern Studies in Commercial Law Conference 澳门六合彩开奖记录
- (2023) Speaker at Conference : ‘Comparing Mechanisms to Curb Interest for Over-indebted Consumers under English and South African law’ International Association of Consumer Law International Conference Hamburg
- (2023) Guest Speaker : ‘Do Smart Contracts Aid Circular Economy Models?’ Environmental Café Cornwall Campus University of Exeter
- (2022) Panel Member : ‘Enabling Circular Economy Systems in the Future: How Blockchain, Open Innovation and Smart Contracts make this Possible’ Swansea Circular Economy Conference
- (2022) Guest Speaker : ‘The Servitisation Model as a Potential Solution to Implement a Circular Supply Chain’ Centre for Commercial Law and Financial Regulation School of Law 澳门六合彩开奖记录
- (2022) Panel Member : ‘Smart Supply Chain Contracts’ Circular Economy Showcase, Cardiff Circular Economy Conference
- (2021) Speaker at Conference : ‘Societal Innovation and the Law: Reinventing or Harnessing the Wheel? SLS Conference London
Dr Monica Vessio
Areas of interest
- Commercial Law (supply chains domestic and transnational)
- Banking and regulation, specifically money, digital money & interest
- Banking law and Fintech
- Smart Contracts, Blockchain and AI
- Circular Economy, servitisation and sustainable supply chain solutions
- Consumer law, specifically consumer credit and consumer rights
Postgraduate supervision
PhD Student: Alastair Marke, Intersection of AI & Green Digital Assets
I welcome applications from students who wish to research in my areas of interest
Teaching
- Advanced International Commercial Law
- Commercial Law
- Contract Law
- English Legal System and Skills
Background
Dr Monica Vessio lectures Commercial Law in the School of Law. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Prior to joining Reading she was Module Convenor for Commercial Law and Programme Director for the LLM Programme in Business and Law at the University of Exeter.
Her research and teaching focus on aspects of banking law (digital banking, central bank digital currencies, privacy considerations in this field and open banking); circular economy (CE) influences and the impact of disruptive technologies, such as smart contracts and AI, on supply chains. In her research, she explores both corporate and consumer perspectives.
As Co-Principal Investigator for a , which incorporated the use of an on-chain smart contract to enhance a CE trading model, Monica led on the advisory document outlining the drafting requirements of partially automated agreements for both B2B and B2C components for the partner organization.
Prior to joining the University of Exeter, she held lecturing posts at the University of Pretoria, University of Johannesburg. She was visiting lecturer at Cat蠈lica University, Porto. In South Africa, she actively collaborated with the Black Lawyers Association, participating in an outreach program aimed at training and enhancing the skills of attorneys in rural areas, within the commercial legal sector.
Monica practised as a commercial attorney and legal commercial consultant (to financial institutions and banks). She holds a BA and LLB from Rhodes University, her LLM with distinction and honorary colours and LLD (PhD) from the University of Pretoria.
Monica serves as a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Banking Law and has been repeatedly invited by the Faculty of Law at the University of Johannesburg to hold this position.
Monica has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles in prestigious academic journals. She also co-authors the annually updated publication, LexisNexis Banking Law and Practice.
Her work has been frequently cited by the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of Appeal, and in numerous High Court cases.
Awards and honours
- Academic Honorary Colours (LLM) (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
- Co-Investigator : European Regional Development Fund (WEFO/ESIF) Project on Smart Contracts in a Circular Supply Chain
- Co-Principal Investigator : Digital Societies Grow House Fund Data and Digital Governance for Key Strategic Infrastructure in the Context of a Transition to Net Zero 2050
- Principal Investigator : funded by MMI Holdings Limited Interest Charges and Caps on Legacy Products
- Recipient, University of Pretoria Postgraduate Research Fund
- Co-Principal Investigator : Gauteng Department of Health Funded Project, South Africa on Recommendations on the Benefits and Risks Involved in the Provincialization of Emergency Services, Pretoria
Professional bodies/affiliations
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Senior Research Associate, Centre for Banking Law, University of Johannesburg
- Member of the International Association of Consumer Law (IACL)
- Member of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL)
- Member of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)
- Member of the
- Qualified Attorney, Member of the Law Society of South Africa
Selected publications
Books
- (2024) Moorcroft, J and Vessio, ML Banking Law and Practice (LexisNexis)
Forthcoming Book Chapters
- Forthcoming (2025): Vessio ML and Saintier S The (Servitised) Subscription Economy: Are Consumers Truly Empowered? Disruption, Innovation and Re-alignment in UK Consumer Law, C Twigg-Fletchner and J Devenney (eds) Hart Publishers
- Forthcoming (February 2025) Vessio ML, ‘Law and Money’ in Elgar Encyclopedia of Law and Sociology,Law & Economy Section V Barnes and Y Zang (eds)