Collana Risk and law in a digital and artificial future
Risk and law in a digital and artificial future
Collana diretta da Gabriella Punziano e Giuseppe Masullo
Risk and law in a digital and artificial future series aims to collect writings on the role of law in the face of continuous technological and digital innovation. The aim is to seize the opportunity to build different futures, without being over-enthusiastic or over-pessimistic, but with attention to the risks that affect society, individuals who use digital services, and the market. The international and multidisciplinary approach will examine whether it is possible to reconcile the speed and ontological immediacy of the digital world, amplified by the use of artificial intelligence systems, with the required caution and depth for decisions that affect people’s rights and lives. If a certain vulnerability of the human being in the face of technological evolution cannot be denied, it is equally true that it is impossible, and in any case dangerous, to rely solely on artificial intelligence. This makes choices and determine meanings for itself, often appearing to itself and others as unpredictable and falsely neutral.
Scientific Board
Editors in Chief: Raffaele De Giorgi e Sara Tommasi
Raffaele De Giorgi is an internationally renowned intellectual, currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Salento. He has taught at several Italian and foreign universities; he was one of the founders of the Faculty of Law at the University of Salento and, together with the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann, of the Centre for Risk Studies.
Sara Tommasi is an Associate Professor of Private Law at the Department of Law Studies of the University of Salento (Italy), where she currently teaches Consumer Law. In addition, she is the Director of the Research Centre for Digital Market and Consumer Protection.
Raffaele De Giorgi is an internationally renowned intellectual, currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Salento. He has taught at several Italian and foreign universities; he was one of the founders of the Faculty of Law at the University of Salento and, together with the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann, of the Centre for Risk Studies.
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D. in Philosophy from the Sapienza University of Rome, with the thesis “Prospettive della logica giuridica: la logica deontica?”, in 1971. From June 1972 to November 1979, he was a researcher at the “Institut für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie” of the Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken, Germany. In those years he collaborated with Alessandro Baratta and developed studies on Modern and Contemporary Legal Thought, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Criminal Law, and Sociology of Law. From 1974 he worked on Systems Theory and from 1979 until 1996 he worked with Niklas Luhmann, with whom he wrote “Theory of Society” between 1990 and 1991. In 1980 he became Full Professor of Sociology of Law, in 1987 Full Professor of Sociology, and in 1991 Full Professor of General Theory of Law and Philosophy of Law. Between 2001 and 2004 he was Visiting Professor at the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He has also been a Visiting Professor in Greece, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, giving lectures, seminars, and conferences. He is a member of the Scientific Council of numerous scientific journals in various countries. He is the Director of two editorial collections: “Scienza del Diritto” and “Teoria della Società”, published by Pensa MultiMedia, in Lecce; “Filosofía y sociología del derecho”, published by Editorial «Derecho Global», Ciudad de México; “Argumentación e interpretación jurídica”, published by Editorial «Derecho Global», Ciudad de México. He worked as Director of the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Salerno and Director of the Department of Social Systems and Communication at the University of Salento, Lecce. He was also Dean and Director of the Department of Law Sciences at the Faculty of Jurisprudence at the University of Salento (Italy), . In 1995, he founded a doctoral programme called “Evolution of Legal Systems and New Laws”, where he was the coordinator until 2005. He has carried out research on 19th and 20th-century German legal thought, on the philosophy of action and imputation in criminal law, on theories of deviance, the semantics of legal concepts, the structure of risk in modern society, the structure and mechanisms that produce trust and on the memory of law. In the years of his close and continuous collaboration with Niklas Luhmann, he has essentially worked on the “Theory of Society”. He is currently working on the following lines of research: 1) the description of contemporary society’s complexity; modern forms of slavery; inclusion and exclusion forms in contemporary society; 2) the law of literature and the law of Greek tragedy; 3) the theoretical questions of the construction of deviant action; the historical semantics of the order of violence; 4) the memory of law and democracy transition in Brazil; 5) the future of the Theory of Society.
Sara Tommasi is an Associate Professor of Private Law at the Department of Law Studies of the University of Salento (Italy), where she currently teaches Consumer Law. In addition, she is the Director of the Research Centre for Digital Market and Consumer Protection.
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She participates in several research groups and she is a member of the Center for Risk Studies established at the University of Salento in collaboration with the University of Comahue (Ar), Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (Br), University of São Paulo (Br) and University Externado (Co). She is a directing member of the scientific association “Unione dei Privatisti” and a referee and member of editorial committees of legal journals. Her current research interests are the digital market and regulation of artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on risk and consumer protection. She took part as speaker and as organizer in several conferences, seminars, and summer schools. She taught under the Erasmus programme at the University of Tarragona and the University of Granada. She was a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt am Main. She published various book chapters, journal articles, and four monographs about the sources of obligations, unfair commercial practices, consumer mortgage credit and the last one on the Digital Services Act and the Risk of discrimination in the Digital Market.
Scientific Board Members
María Teresa Álvarez Moreno (University Complutense of Madrid, Spain) Celso F. Campilongo (University of São Paulo, Brazil) Marcelo Campos Galuppo (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Pablo Cortés (University of Leicester, England) Fernando Esteban de la Rosa (University of Granada, Spain) Jorge Douglas Price (National University of Comahue, Argentina) A.U. Janssen (Radboud University, The Netherlands) Benjamin Lahusen (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder, Germany) Juliana Neuenschwander Magalhães (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Luciano Nuzzo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Salvatore Orlando (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Pietro Ortolani (Radboud University, The Netherlands) Francesco Paolo Patti (Bocconi University, Italy) Federica Rassu (University of Poitiers, France) Martin Schmidt-Kessel (Bayreuth University, Germany) Javier Espinoza De Los Monteros (University of Anáhuac, México).
The publication process requires that proposals pass the evaluation of the Scientific Board, which is composed of academics and scholars of established reputation, affiliated with various national and international Universities and Research Institutes and specialized in the different areas of study within the main thematic area.
Titoli della nostra Collana Risk and law in a digital and artificial future
