Giovanni Sartor

Professor of Legal Informatics & Legal Theory 

Tel. [+39] 055 4685 528 / 239
Fax [+39] 055 4685 200
Email Giovanni.Sartor@eui.eu 

Secretary/Administrative Assistant Rosanna Lewis  

EUI Law Department
Via Boccaccio 121
50133 Firenze - Italy

On leave from the Faculty of Law at the University of Bologna. Appointed in January 2006

Research and Supervision 

• Legal informatics, especially artificial intelligence & law, computable models of legal reasoning and knowledge, digital agents and societies, models of trust.
• Legal theory, especially legal reasoning, legal logic, legal arguments and dialogues, theories of rights and normative positions, collective agency, game-theory and the law, legislative drafting, legal evolution and complex systems.
• Computer law, especially data protection, intellectual property, digital-rights management, open-source and creative commons, e-government and e-commerce
• Law and automation in socio-technical systems, in particular liability issues in air traffic management

Languages 

Italian (first language), English (fluent), French (fluent), Spanish, German

Current Seminars at the EUI 

• Advanced Course in Jurisprudence: Law, Interpretation and Rights  (with D. Patterson )
• Logic, Argumentation and Law  (with Scott Brewer, Harvard University, Henry Prakken, Utrecht University, and Antonino Rotolo, University of Bologna)
• The Internet: Politics and Law  (with A. Trechsel , SPS)

Current Research Projects 

• ALIAS (Addressing Liability Impact of Automated Systems) The project, funded by EUROCONTROL and EU under the SESAR joint undertaking,  addresses liability and automation in ATM, and more generally in complex socio-technical systems. It analyses present and future technological developments and their impacts on ATM, assesses current responsibility regimes and proposes future developments
• Models of legal rationality (rationality and reasonabless in legal problem-solving, logical models of legal arguments, dialogues, concepts and systems)
• A cognitive approach to the law (an integrated model of legal reasoning, based upon the idea of cognition)
• Game theory and the law (game-theoretical analysis of legally relevant interactions)
• Legal ontology and fundamental legal concepts (reasons, norms, rules, normative positions, institutional facts, etc.)
• Computable models of the law (legal concepts, standards for representing legal texts and legal knowledge)
• Human rights in the information society
• Sharing knowledge in the information society (the interaction between the discipline of intellectual property and the production and communication of knowledge)
• Digital agents and electronic societies (legal regulation of autonomous agents, norm-based governance of agents' societies)
• The protection of trust (the idea of trust, its interactions with legal regulations, its protection and promotion in the digital world)
• Leibniz as a Jurist. The legal works of the great philosopher.