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Dr Rossana Ducato

Dr Rossana Ducato
Dr Rossana Ducato
Dr Rossana Ducato

Ph.D. in European and Comparative Legal Studies (Trento)

Senior Lecturer

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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.

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 been accepted as visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg; the Max Planck for Innovation and Competition Law, Munich; the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society (CSTMS), UC Berkeley; the Institute for Information Law (IvIR), University of Amsterdam; Waseda University, Tokyo; CREATe, University of Glasgow; CIPPM, Bournemouth University; AIBHL, Yonsei University.

Qualifications

  • Admitted to the Italian Bar 
    2013 - Trento 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Member of the Centre for Commercial Law

School Impact co-lead

Deputy PGR Officer

Member of the Interdisciplinary Human-centred AI Network

Personal Tutor

External Memberships

Co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Commerce and Contracting (IJCC)

Deputy SGSAH Law Catalyst

Co-founder and member of the Scottish Law and Innovation Network (SCOTLIN)

Executive Board member of Associazione Italiana per la Promozione della Scienza Aperta (AISA)

Fellow of the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire Droit Entreprise et Société (CRIDES), UCLouvain

Fellow of the Trento Law and Technology Research Group (LawTech)

Member of European Law Institute (ELI)

Research

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

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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 a comparative perspective (UK, EU, Japan, Korea)

  • Legal aspects of deepfake technology

  • Text and data mining exceptions in copyright

Funding and Grants

  • Korean Foundation Fellowship for Field Research (2025)
  • Daiwa Foundation grant "Deepfake and the Law" (2024-2025), with Bournemouth University and Waseda University (Japan)
  • Canon foundation fellowship (2023)
  • Erasmus+ Jean Monnet grant for the Module "Clinic on EU Digital Rights, Law, and Design", UCLouvain (2022-2025)
  • 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", UCLouvain (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)
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