Manlio Lisanti (1992) is a PhD candidate in Administrative Law at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, as part of the Doctorate in “Theory of Contracts, Services, and Markets.” His doctoral research focuses on the tools offered by the Public Contracts Code for the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage, and specifically on public-private partnership mechanisms.
He graduated in Law from the University of Macerata, with a thesis in Administrative Law on the pre-emption of cultural heritage. In 2022, he obtained a Master’s Degree in Administrative Procedural Law, organized by the Italian Society of Administrative Lawyers.
He is a visiting lecturer in Institutions of Public Law, Administrative Law, and European Administrative Law at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
He has spent research periods as a Visiting Scholar at the Bodleian Library and the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford, where he studied comparative forms of public-private cooperation in continental and common law systems.
He is the Junior Executive Editor of the Italian Law Journal (Tier A).
He has published essays in journals and chapters in collective volumes – including in English – on public contracts, cultural heritage, the relationship between digitalization and administrative procedures, telecommunications and administrative proceedings.
He has been a member of IRPA since November 2025.