Department of Legal Sciences & Members
Giovanni Ziccardi (1969) is Full Professor of Philosophy of Law (“Legal Informatics“) at the University of Milan, Italy, where he is also the Director of the Information Society Law Center (ISLC). He was Jean Monnet Professor (from 2019 to 2022) of “European Union Data Protection, Data Governance and Cybersecurity”.
Still in Milan, he is Professor of “Smart Cities, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation Law” and “Law of Digital Products“, former Member of the Ethical Committee and of the Data Protection Committee of the University, Founder and Director of the post-graduate Courses in “Computer Crimes and Digital Investigations” and in “Legal Tech, Smart Contracts and Coding for Lawyers” and co-founder (with Prof. Danilo Bruschi and Prof. Maddalena Sorrentino) of the Master in Cybersecurity. Outside Milan, he is Professor in the Module of “Computer Crimes” at the Master in Legal Informatics of the University of Bologna (at CIRSFID).
He is in the Board (“Consiglio d’Amministrazione”) of the fin-tech, cybersecurity and AI company Centrico (Banca Sella Group) His research concerns Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, computer ethics, computer crimes, digital investigations, the use of social networks in politics, digital death, hate speech, surveillance and leaks, digital dissidence and human rights, cyber law, legal informatics, hacking, legal tech and digital transformation law.
Professor Ziccardi, who is also a lawyer, received his graduate degree (in Law) from the University of Modena and his Ph.D. in Legal Informatics from the University of Bologna.