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). Over the years, she has 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; Waseda University, Tokyo (Canon Foundation in Europe fellowship); CREATe, University of Glasgow.
Qualifications
- Admitted to the Italian Bar2013 - Trento
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
- Biotechnology
- Creative Arts and Design
- Digital Media
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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Come to the Dark Side, We Have Patterns: Choice Architecture and Design for (Un)informed Consent
Gikii Conference 2018Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts- [ONLINE] UCLouvain
Legal issues in governing genetic biobanks: the Italian framework as a case study for the implications for citizen’s health through public-private initiatives
Journal of Community Genetics, vol. 9, pp. 177-190Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCustomer ratings as a vector for discrimination in employment relations? Pathways and pitfalls for legal remedies
Contributions to Conferences: Papers- [ONLINE] UC Louvain
Droni per il Search and Rescue in Aree Valanghive: Profili Privatistici
Diritto dei droni: Regole, questioni, prassi. Aiello, G. F., Biasiotti, M. A., Palmerini, E. (eds.). GiuffrèChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/214942
House of Terms: Fixing the Information Paradigm with Legal Design
Contributions to Conferences: Posters- [ONLINE] UC Louvain
Limitations to Text and Data Mining and Consumer Empowerment Making the Case for a Right to “Machine Legibility”
Working Papers: Working Papers- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/204444
Cloud computing for s-Health and the data protection challenge getting ready for the general data protection regulation
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580803
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Open Access, Open Science, Open Society
Positioning and Power in Academic Publishing: Players, Agents and Agendas. F. Loizides and B. Schmidt, pp. 75-86, 12 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersDatabase genetici, biobanche e "health information technology"
Il diritto dell'era digitale. Pascuzzi G., pp. 305-320, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/196389
From electronic health records to personal health records: emerging legal issues in the Italian regulation of e-health
International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 271-285Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13600869.2016.1189738
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I social network
Il diritto dell'era digitale. Pascuzzi G., pp. 269-288, 10 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/195904
La crisi della definizione di dato personale nell'era del web 3.0. Una riflessione civilistica in chiave comparata
Il diritto e le definizioni. Cortese, T. (ed.). Editoriale Scientifica Italiana, pp. 145-178, 34 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/195903
Windsurf v. Kitesurf: una "tragedia del vento comune"?
Working Papers: Working Papers- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/201326
L'attività agonistica
La responsabilita' civile e penale negli sport del turismo. L'acqua. Umberto Izzo, Francesco Morando, pp. 404-418Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/196399
La lesione della privacy di fronte alla "soglia di risarcibilità": la nuova Maginot del danno non patrimoniale?
Giustiziacivile.com, vol. ., no. 4, pp. 1-9Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/195846
La scienza della procreazione medicalmente assistita e il diritto della filiazione: note in tema di fecondazione eterologa
Antologia di casi giurisprudenziali. Materiali per lo studio del diritto privato. Teresa PasquinoChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/196391
Le tavole a propulsione eolica: il windsurf e il kitesurf
La responsabilita' civile e penale negli sport del turismo. L'acqua. Umberto Izzo, Francesco Morandi, pp. 383-418Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/196396
Open bioinformation in the life sciences as a gatekeeper for innovation and development
Law, Development and Innovation. Bellantuono, G., Fabiano Teodoro, L. (eds.). Springer, pp. 115-146Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/196379
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13311-9_7
Please mind the gap! Le differenze tra azione di rivendicazione e azione di restituzione
Antologia di casi giurisprudenziali. Materiali per lo studio del diritto privato. Teresa Pasquino, pp. 141-150Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/196392
Regole di sicurezza e responsabilità
La responsabilita' civile e penale negli sport del turismo. L'acqua. Umberto Izzo, Francesco Morandi, pp. 383-399Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/196397
Sulla natura giuridica della responsabilità precontrattuale: il νόστος del "contatto sociale"
Antologia di casi giurisprudenziali. Materiali per lo studio del diritto privato. Teresa Pasquino, pp. 193-210Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/196395
The Privacy of Minors within Patient-Centered eHealth Systems
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/196400
Intellectual Property, Open Science and Research Biobanks
Working Papers: Working PapersProfili giuridici dei Personal Health Records: l’autogestione dei dati sanitari da parte del paziente tra privacy e tutela della salute
Rivista critica del diritto privato, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 389-419Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/195848
The legal fate of biobanks between privacy, IPRs and crisis of a firm. A preliminary study on the case of "bio-bankruptcy"
Revista de derecho y genoma humano = Law and the human genome review / Cátedra de Derecho y Genoma Humano/Fundación BBV-Diputación Foral de Bizkaia, no. 41, pp. 89-102Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus