Team

The Principal Investigator Riccardo de Caria is an Associate professor (starting 1 September 2021) in Public Comparative Law at the University of Turin. He mainly deals with market regulation, with particular attention to new technologies. Riccardo has published a monograph on lobbying regulation in the United States and Europe, and he is an expert in the tokenized economy and smart contracts. He is the promoter of the legal clinic Entrepreneurship and Innovation Law Lab. Riccardo is currently visiting professor at the Université Lyon III Jean Moulin, and Georgetown Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London, where he studies and lectures Tech Law. 

Riccardo is Chair of the Italian Hub of the European Law Institute, Editorial coordinator of the European Procurement Law research group, and founder of the Turin Observatory on Economic Law and Innovation (TOELI). He is a former member of the research group on The Making of a New European Legal Culture and occasionally contributed as a columnist on legal and economic issues for the newspaper Il Giornale and Il Foglio. 

Riccardo will maintain a constant relationship between the critical Project's legal analytical thrust and economic rationality. This coordinating role will not be to the detriment of his active participation in all project activities. Instead, it is intended as a proactive role of reconciliation of the academic needs and the dissemination purposes on technological education. During the various events proposed by the Project, Riccardo will be the spokesperson and moderator of the discussion between researchers, exponents of business and politics, and active citizens on the importance of possessing knowledge in innovation and blockchain in Europe. In particular, his lectures will concentrate the attention on regulation of the tokenized economy, law and public policy of technological innovation, discrimination in online speech, sharing economy, artificial intelligence, topics in which Riccardo is a well-known expert from the academic and professional point of view.

Teaching staff member. Silvia is a lawyer and Research Fellow at the University of Turin, Information Society Law Center (ISLC), Research Fellow at the Turin Observatory on Economic Law and Innovation (TOELI), and Strategic Research Manager in Data Valley, where she deals with research related to data-driven business models and the development of high-tech solutions and services. Silvia is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Law Reviews “Ciberspazio e Diritto”, “Diritto, Mercato e Tecnologia” and “Diritto di Internet”, Fellow of the European Law Institute and of the Italian Academy of Internet Code, Member of the European Law & Tech Network. She is the author of a book on the right to be forgotten, memory, and privacy in the digital age, as well as the author of numerous scientific articles on e-commerce, freedom of expression online, control of the worker through new technologies, domain names, data protection, right to be forgotten, data portability, provider’s liability, and platform economy. In particular, her lectures will concentrate the attention on platforms, the internet of things e digital single market, and topics that she faces daily from an academic and professional perspective.

Teaching staff member. Umberto is a post-doctoral researcher in political economy (starting 1 September 2021) at the University of Verona and a research fellow at the Turin observatory on economic law and innovation (TOELI). He statistically analyzes judicial efficiency and the entrepreneurial ecosystem, monitoring the existing emerging costs and legal risks of start-ups in the area. He has primarily dealt with courts' efficiency and the economic incentives existing in poor institutional environments. Before obtaining a Ph.D. in comparative analysis of institutions, economics, and law, at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, he worked in private legal practice, both as an international consultant and attorney. Umberto's role is to foster multi-disciplinary views in the research group. He will provide students with a radically different perspective on law and legal theory, addressing the causes, consequences, and social value of the set of existing legal rules from the economic point of view. In particular, his lectures will concentrate the attention on the legal and economic opposite frontiers inherent technological innovation, providing insights on the different perspectives that both disciplines follow in the implementation of new technological investments in innovation and inherent opportunities.

Andrea Piletta Massaro is currently assegnista di ricerca at the University of Turin’s Law Department. He obtained his Ph.D from the University of Trento (Ph.D in Comparative and European Legal Studies) with a thesis titled ‘Competition Law Between Old Goals and New Challenges. New Tools for a Multi-Value Approach vis-à-vis Digitalisation, Inequalities, and Climate Changes. He received his degree in law summa cum laude, with academic distinction, from the University of Turin with a final dissertation titled ‘Competition Defence, Private Enforcement Tools: Are They Effective?’.

Since then, he collaborated as trainee lawyer in the Global Transactions department of the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP’s Milan office. He also worked as law clerk at the Turin Court of Appeal. He is admitted to the Italian bar.

He also works as teaching assistant in both the Universities of Turin and Trento. In particular, he is involved in the Private Law, Comparative Law, EU Competition Law and EU Law courses, as well as in the Master in International Trade Law organised by the University of Turin and the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation.

He published articles in the fields of private comparative law and competition law, and he spoke at various conferences. His areas of interest are the impact of digitalisation and the green transition on competition law, private enforcement of competition law and collective redress.

Teaching staff member. Cristina is an associate Professor of Comparative Private Law at the University of Turin and an Affiliate at the Collegio Carlo Alberto. She is a Fellow of the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (Stanford Law School and Vienna School of Law). Cristina's research focuses on the comparative law of emerging technologies. She teaches Comparative Law, Contracts, EU Competition Law, and Blockchain and the Law. She authored a book on Comparative Law and the Blockchain (2020). She regularly acts as an expert for European institutions and international organizations, and she is a coordinator of the LLM in International Trade Law, co-organized with ITC-ILO, in cooperation with Unicitral and Unidroit. She has already been Marie Curie Fellow (Université Panthéon-Assas), a Max Weber Fellow (EUI), and a Lagrange Fellow (Institute for Scientific Interchange).

Cristina's renowned international reputation will support the commitment of other eminent scholars in the discussion on the European answers to innovation and emerging technologies. International scholars' involvement will help disseminate the European standards on smart contracts, blockchain technology, and digital platforms worldwide. In particular, considering her recognized expert in comparative law and technological innovation, her lectures will concentrate the attention on comparative law of emerging technologies, blockchain, and smart contracts in comparative law, showing the existing differences between the point of view of the United States and European Union.

Teaching staff member. Carlo is an Academic Fellow at the Bocconi University of Milan. He is a known Data Protection Officer and expert in legal issues related to business models with solid technological content and document automation. He is also the coordinator of the Legal Clinic of the start-up accelerator "Bocconi4Innovation", cofounder of "Sweet Legal Tech", a consulting firm in the field of digital law, and of "Iubenda", the first legal tech start-up in Italy. 

Carlo teaches "Privacy Law and Data Strategy" at several Italian universities, including the Master in Law of Internet Technology at Bocconi University, the Master in Business Law, and the Master in Open Innovation Management at the University of Padua. He is president of the "National Internet of Things and Privacy Centre" and head of the "Data Valley" project, dedicated to developing partnerships between Italian small and medium enterprises and multinationals in the digital world. 

Carlo will provide students with the necessary link between the entrepreneurial and the academic vision. His background will also help reconcile the entrepreneurial innovation instances with the required academic rigor to develop the manuscripts that will be part of the current dissemination project. In particular, his lectures will focus on data strategy and legal tech, two themes that he deals with, from the entrepreneurial and academic point of view, suggesting new professionals the necessary expertise in managing the digital economy and digitized society.

Teaching staff member. Tommaso is responsible for the Italian implementation in the European e-Justice project Building On ECLI on the introduction of technical standards for national case-law publication. He is also responsible for scientific collaborations with the Italian Senate, the Ministry of Justice, and the Italian Supreme Court (Court of Cassation). He has been involved in several national and European projects on eGovernment, eJustice, eParticipation. He is responsible for the research project “Semantic Technologies for Law” DUS.AD008.046 under the area “Law, Technololgy, Judicial Systems” of the DSU department of CNR. His research interests include legal XML standards and formats, multilingual legal ontologies, semantic markup, legal thesauri, information extraction from legal texts, automatic legal document annotation, semantic web technologies for Open Government and eParticipation, network analysis in law and legal data analytics. In particular, his lectures will concentrate the attention on Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics in Law, combining his knowledge of engineering and computer science with legal analysis.