
Ph.D. in European and Comparative Legal Studies (Trento)
Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- rossana.ducato@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272371
- School/Department
- School of Law
Biography
Rossana is Senior Lecturer of IT Law and Regulation at the University of Aberdeen, School of Law. She is also research fellow at the UCLouvain Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire Droit Entreprise et Société (CRIDES), where she teaches on the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet module "Clinic on EU Digital Rights, Law, and Design".
Her research interests are always pursued in a comparative vein and range from Privacy and Data Protection to Consumer protection, Intellectual Property Law, Law and Design, and Law and Behavioural Science, with a special focus on the problems related to new technologies and their impact on society.
She is the author of several peer-reviewed articles and chapters in scholarly books about issues related to law and technology with particular attention to the platform economy, Big and Open Data, cloud computing, drones, research biobanks, and health information technologies.
Previously she was a postdoctoral researcher in Law at Université Catholique de Louvain and Université Saint-Louis de Bruxelles (Belgium) and at the University of Trento (Italy). During her doctoral studies she was accepted as visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg (scholarship holder); the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society (CSTMS), UC Berkeley; the Institute for Information Law (IvIR), University of Amsterdam.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Member of the Centre for Commercial Law
Aberdeen 2040 Interdisciplinary Lead
Impact Lead
Deputy PGR Officer
Member of the Interdisciplinary Human-centred AI Network
Aberdeen University Press project working group
Personal Tutor
- External Memberships
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Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal for Strategic Contracting and Negotiation (JSCAN)
Deputy SGSAH Law Catalyst
Co-founder and member of the Scottish Law and Innovation Network (SCOTLIN)
Fellow of the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire Droit Entreprise et Société (CRIDES), UCLouvain
Member of the Research Group on Data, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Law & Society (DRAILS)
Fellow of the Trento Law and Technology Research Group (LawTech)
Founding member of Associazione Italiana per la Promozione della Scienza Aperta (AISA)
Member of European Law Institute (ELI)
- Research
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Research Overview
Rossana's research interests include:
- IT Law
- privacy and data protection
- intellectual property law (in particular, copyright and database protection)
- consumer protection law
- law and design
- law and behavioural sciences
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Law.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- Biometry
- Biotechnology
- Creative Arts and Design
- Digital Media
- Ethics
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Current Research
- The regulation of AI (in particular, XAI, and algorithmic discrimination)
- Legal implications of deceptive design practices online (so-called dark patterns)
Funding and Grants
- Canon foundation fellowship (2023)
- The Royal Society of Edinburgh research network grant for "SCOTLIN - Scottish Law and Innovation Network" (co-applicant) (2021-2023)
- Erasmus+ Jean Monnet grant for the Network "SHINE - SHaring economy and INequalities across Europe". Partners: University of Valencia, UCLouvain, University of Barcelona, University of Bologna, University of Palermo (2019-2022)
- Erasmus+ Jean Monnet grant for the Module "European IT Law by Design" (2018-2021)
- International Development Research Center (IDRC) grant for the study "Protection of users in the platform economy. A European perspective". Project developed within the research network "Policy frameworks for digital platforms – Moving from openness to inclusion", lead by IT for Change.
- Innoviris grant "ATTRACT brains to Brussels" for the project "The Internet of Platforms: an empirical study on private ordering and consumer protection in the sharing economy" (2017-2020)
- Teaching
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Courses
LLM program
- Publications
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Why Harmonised Standards Should be Open
The International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition LawContributions to Journals: EditorialsFrom data subjects to data suspects: challenging e-proctoring systems as a university practice
Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 278-306Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEditorial: Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law
Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 231-233Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Editorial "Law and the Digital Classroom"
Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law, vol. 14, no. 2Contributions to Journals: EditorialsTeaching IT Law through the lens of legal design
Design in Legal Education. Taylor and Francis, pp. 97-109, 13 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429021411-9
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What if data protection embraced foresight and speculative design?
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsRecommender systems
Glossary of Platform Law and Policy Terms. Belli, L., Zingales, N., Curzi, Y. (eds.). IGF, pp. 257-261, 5 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Automated decision-making
Glossary of Platform Law and Policy Terms. Belli, L., Zingales, N., Curzi, Y. (eds.). 1 edition. IGF, pp. 51-57, 7 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Legal Design Perspectives: Theoretical and Practical Insights from the Field
Ledizioni. 319 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksCommentary to the Commission’s proposal for the “AI Act” – Response to selected issues
Non-textual Forms: Web Publications and Websites- [ONLINE] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12527-Artificial-intelligence-ethical-and-legal-requirements/F2665397_en
- [ONLINE] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12527-Artificial-intelligence-ethical-and-legal-requirements_en