Department of Private Law and History of Law & Members
Marco Alberto Quiroz Vitale is Professor of Sociology of Human Rights and AI at the University of Milan. He graduated with honours in Law and later earned a PhD in Sociology of Legal and Political Institutions, focusing on administrative discretion, participatory governance, and citizens’ rights. Over the course of his academic career, he has held positions as a tenured Researcher and Associate Professor in the field of Philosophy and Sociology of Law. Since 2018, he has also served as a Visiting Professor at the Istituto Universitario di Venezia, where he teaches Welfare Law and Third Sector Law.
He is a practicing lawyer, admitted to the Milan Bar and qualified before Italy’s higher courts. From 2007 to 2011, he served as Public Ombudsman for the Province of Milan. His research concentrates on the Third Sector, nonprofit regulation, privacy law, and broader socio-legal transformations. More recently, he has explored how emerging technologies—particularly artificial intelligence—reshape governance models, data protection frameworks, and the functions of civil society organizations. He has coordinated postgraduate programmes on the Third Sector since 2013 and authored numerous publications on nonprofit governance, privacy, voluntarism, and technology-driven legal change.