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Ugo is a Full Professor of Philosophy of Law, Legal Informatics and Legal Theory at the Department of Law, University of Turin (Italy), Vice President of the Italian Association of Legal Informatics, Faculty at the Georgetown's Law School transnational center in London, UK (CTLS), Faculty at the Joint International Doctoral (PhD) degree in Law, Science and Technology, part of the EU’s Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorates (EMJDs), Member of the Board of Trustees  at the  Nexa Center for Internet & Society at the Politecnico of Turin. He has been a member of the Expert Group set up by the EU Commission on liability and new technology/new technologies formation (2017-2019). In the last years, he has taken part to several initiatives/ethical committees/expert groups/projects such as: Optimai (2020-2023), the Ethical Advisory Board of several Horizon 2020 projects (Chair), such as Spirit (2017-2022), the AI4H Project on health and AI technologies by the World Health Organization (2019-2022), the AI4People project of the European Institute for Science, Media, and Democracy (Atomium) (2017-2019), the European Medical Information Framework (EMIF) project, funded through the IMI programme (2015-2019), the Ethical Committee IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in AI and Autonomous Systems (2017-2018), of the expert group for the evaluation of proposals in the Horizon 2020 robotics program (2015), and both the Group of Experts for the Onlife Initiative set up by the European Commission (2012-2013), and the European RPAS Steering Group (Member) (2011-2012).

He is the author of twelve monographs and a hundred essays in scholarly journals and book chapters. His main interests are Artificial Intelligence & law, network and legal theory, governance, and information technology law (specially data protection law and copyright).

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Contacts: ugo.pagallo@unito.it

Massimo Durante is an associate professor of Philosphy of Law, Legal Informatics and Legal Theory at the Department of Law of the University of Turin. He is coordinator of the research unit of the International Erasmus Mundus Ph.D.Program “Law, Science, and Technology”. His main fields of research concern the relation between Law and Ethics, Legal Informatics, Computer and Information Ethics. Author of several books, he has published several articles, essays and book chapters in Italian, English and French. He is also member of editorial boards and peer-reviewer for several international reviews. He has been involved in many research projects in the fields of Philosophy of Law, Legal Informatics, and ICTs policies. He is currently dealing with issues and problems of digital governance from an ethical, legal and epistemological perspective.

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Contacts: massimo.durante@unito.it

Jacopo Ciani is a post-doc research fellow at the University of Turin (Italy), where he teaches Legal Informatics and a qualified lawyer practicing in Milan (Italy), with expertise in IP and competition, advertising, IT and data protection law. Jacopo is also Adjunct Professor at ESCP Business School, Turin Campus, where he teaches International and European Business Law and reserach fellow at the Information Society Law Center (ISLC) of the University of Milan. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Turin (2011), holds a post-graduate diploma in International Trade Law from ITC-ILO (2011) and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Milan (2016). He has been visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich, Germany) and at the KU Leuven Center for IT & IP Law (Belgium). He is author of a monography on “The Public Domain in the Knowledge Society” (Giappichelli, Torino, 2021) and of several articles in leading national and international journals. His main research field is intellectual property law in the digital environment, with a particular interest in issues related to data governance, AI authorship, digitization and access to knowledge, digital advertising and sustainability. Since 2020, Mr. Ciani has been appointed Assistant Editor of Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property, edited by Edward Elgar Publishing.

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Contacts: jacopo.cianisciolla@unito.it

Law Degree at University of Insubria (Varese and Como) and in 2007 she was exchange student at Paul M. Herbert Law School – Louisiana State University to write the thesis “Liability for environmental harm: comparison between Italian and US legal systems" (Supervisor: Professor Barbara Pozzo, Olivier Moreteau and Kenneth Murchison). Visiting Research Student at the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2011-12 and in 2013 Ph.D in Comparative Law at Università degli Studi di Milano with the thesis: “The Israeli Civil Code – Law and Language for a Code in a Mixed Jurisdiction”. In 2013-14 Postdoctoral fellowship in Bar Ilan University with a 8 months scholarship offered by Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2015-16 researcher at INSS (Institute of National Security Stydies) in Tel Aviv (Israel). In 2016-2018 post doctoral fellow at University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara (Italy). Since 2019 she is research fellow at the University of Turin. Paola is specialized in data protection and the use of personal data for biomedical research.

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Contacts: paola.aurucci@unito.it

Ludovica Paseri is a post-doc researcher at the law department of the University of Turin. Her research activity is conducted in the fields of philosophy of law and legal informatics. She has been a PhD candidate at LAST-JD Joint International Doctoral degree program in “Law, Science and Technology”, at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, in cotutelle with the University of Luxembourg, faculty of Computer Science. Her main expertise is in the EU Open Science policies, Cloud.

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Contacts: ludovica.paseri@unito.it

Jacopo Dirutigliano is a lawyer registered with the Turin Bar Association and a doctoral researcher in the program “Law, Science and Technology – Joint Doctorate” (University of Bologna, Turin and Luxembourg). He completed his education in Law with a Master’s degree at the University of Turin. The main topics of his research field are the right to explanation, explainable AI, data protection and information technology law.

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Contacts: jacopo.dirutigliano2@unibo.it