Participants
The Scientific Committee (University of Pisa) is composed by Paolo Passaglia (Full Professor in Comparative Law and Coordinator of the Project); Elena Bargelli (Full Professor in Private Law); Gian Luca Conti (Full Professor in Constitutional Law); Benedetta Galgani (Full Professor in Criminal Procedure); Domenico Notaro (Full Professor in Criminal Law); Sara Riccardi (Post Doctoral Research in Criminal Law).
Below is a list of the scholars involved, indicating the country their research is focused on.
Scientific Committee
Paolo Passaglia
Full Professor of Public Comparative Law at the University of Pisa and Coordinator of the University of Pisa unit who takes part in the Project HARD DISC. He is the director of the Master (3rd Cycle) on “Law and Technology of Digital Ecosystem”.
Gian Luca Conti
Full professor of constitutional law at the Department of Law, University of Pisa, and a lawyer qualified to practice before the Supreme Courts. He is the author of four monographs and over one hundred essays on topics such as constitutional justice, territorial governance, terrorism and issues related to the form of government.
Sara Riccardi
Post-doctoral Research in Criminal Law. She recently defended her Ph.D. thesis on causation and negligent liability. As a member of the Scientific Committee, her research focuses on online disinformation from a criminal law perspective.
Austria
Florian Werni
Post-doctoral university assistant at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law, Wien. His research focuses on Austrian and European constitutional and administrative law and its relation to innovation and digitalisation.
Belgium
Valentin Speleers
Teaching assistant and PhD researcher in constitutional law at UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve and Saint-Louis Bruxelles). His research focuses on fundamental rights and media law. He recently started his PhD thesis on the legal guarantees of pluralism on social media platforms.
Marie Vanloocke
Teaching assistant and researcher in constitutional law at UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve). Her research focuses on fundamental rights, with a particular interest for the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community and the development of illiberalism.
Bulgaria
Martin Belov
Professor in Constitutional and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Sofia ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’, Bulgaria. He has participated in numerous international research projects.
Czech Republic
Tina Mizerová
PhD researcher at the Institute of Law and Technology, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, focusing on evaluation of the regulatory response towards disinformation in Europe.
Denmark
Sten Schaumburg-Müller
He is Professor in Media Law at University of Southern Denmark.
Estonia
Carri Ginter
Professor of EU Law at Tartu University, Estonia. His expertise spans arbitration under EU and bilateral trade agreements.
European Union
Claas Friedrich Germelmann
Full professor of public law and European law and the managing director of the Institute of International Law at the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. His research interests lie in the fields of constitutional law with questions of federalism and cultural law.
Finland
Pälvi Korpisaari
Professor of Communication Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki. Her main research areas are media and information law, data protection, tort law, constitutional law and human rights law
France
Coralie Richaud
Associate Professor of Public Law at the University of Montpellier, France, focusing on constitutional adjudication as well as on issues related to social media.
Germany
Benjamin Raue
Professor of Private Law, Law of the Information Society and Intellectual Property Law at the University of Trier, Germany. His research focuses on the consequences of digitalisation on law.
Antje von Ungern-Sternberg
Professor of German and Foreign Public Law, Constitutional Church Law and International Law at the University of Trier, Germany. Her research deals with the effects of digitalisation on democracy and statehood.
Ireland
Edoardo Celeste
Associate Professor of Law, Technology and Innovation at the School of Law and Government of Dublin City University, Ireland. His research areas focus on the transformations that digital technology is generating in the constitutional ecosystem.
Italy
Gian Luca Conti
Full professor of constitutional law at the Department of Law, University of Pisa, and a lawyer qualified to practice before the Supreme Courts. He is the author of four monographs and over one hundred essays on topics such as constitutional justice, territorial governance, terrorism and issues related to the form of government.
Malta
John Stanton
Senior Lecturer in Law at City St George’s, University of London. He’s an expert in Maltese Constitutional Law.
Netherlands
Marco Bassini
Assistant Professor of Fundamental Rights and Artificial Intelligence at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (Tilburg University, Netherlands). His research interests include regulatory strategies for technology, populism and the Internet.
Poland
Monika Florczak-Wątor
Full Professor in the Department of Constitutional Law at the Jagiellonian University, Poland.She specializes in constitutional law as well as international relations.
Portugal
Francisco Pereira Coutinho
Associate Professor at NOVA School of Law in Lisbon, Portugal. His research interests further encompass comparative constitutional law, data protection law and media law.
Romania
Elena Simina Tananescu
Professor of Constitutional and European law at the Law Faculty of the Bucharest University, Romania. Her research interests include European and Comparative constitutional law.
Slovenia
Matija Damjan
Associate professor of civil and commercial law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, focusing on information society law.
Spain
Teresa Rodríguez
Full Professor of Commercial Law at Carlos III University of Madrid. She is a member of three Expert Groups of the European Commission on New Technologies and Liability, on B2B Data Sharing and on Online Platforms Economy.
Sweden
Carl Lebeck
Assistant professor of public law at Stockholm University, Sweden. His research is focused on limitations of constitutional rights in a Swedish and European perspective.