Biography

Part-time professor at Faculty of Law at the University of Bologna and at the EUI. Appointed in 2006, contract renewed until 2024.

Giovanni Sartor is currently Principal Investigator for the ERC (Europen Research Council) Advanced project COMPULAW, started on 1 November 2019, to be completed on 31 October 2024. He is part-time professor in legal informatics at the University of Bologna and part-time professor in Legal informatics and Legal Theory at the European University Institute. He obtained a Ph.D. at the EUI, researcher at the Italian National Council of Research (ITTIG, Florence), chair in Jurisprudence at Queen’s University of Belfast, and was Marie-Curie professor at the EUI. He has been President of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law. He has published widely on artificial intelligence and law, computational logic, legal theory/philosophy, and computer law.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• CLAUDETTE IV – Assessing Multilingual Terms of Services
• Computable Law
• Digital transformations and society
• Holistic Unified Certification Approach for Novel systems based on advanced automation

Completed

• An Automated Detector of Potentially Unfair Clauses in Online Terms of Service
• Digital trade integration - dataset & index (DTI)
• SAFE LANDing through enhanced ground support
• Semantic Clauses Understanding and Detection
• Technological change and society

Supervisees

• Anca Radu
• Elina Nerantzi
• Emmanouil Bougiakiotis
• Yeliz Doker

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• LORINI, Emiliano; SARTOR, Giovanni (2019), Leibnitian paradoxes in the law : a logical analysis, Contribution to book
• ARMGARDT, Matthias; SARTOR, Giovanni (2020), Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von : legal philosophy, Contribution to book
• SARTOR, Giovanni; LAGIOIA, Francesca (2020), Le decisioni algoritmiche tra etica e diritto, Contribution to book
• SARTOR, Giovanni (2020), Artificial intelligence and human rights : between law and ethics, Article
• MARANHÃO, Juliano; SARTOR, Giovanni (2021), Interpretive normative systems, Contribution to book
• LAGIOIA, Francesca; SARTOR, Giovanni (2020), Artificial intelligence in the big data era : risks and opportunities, Contribution to book

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