Brief Bio

A former lawyer and professor of Jurisprudence at the Department of Law, University of Turin (Italy), current member of the Expert Group set up by the EU Commission on liability and new technology/new technologies formation, he is also working with the European Institute for Science, Media, and Democracy (Atomium) in the AI4People project, the first global forum in Europe on the Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence. He is also collaborating with the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in AI and Autonomous Systems; the European Science Foundation of Strasbourg, France; and the Joint International Doctoral (PhD) degree in Law, Science and Technology, part of the EU’s Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorates (EMJDs). Author of eleven monographs and numerous essays in scholarly journals and book chapters, his main interests are Artificial Intelligence & law, network and legal theory, and information technology law (specially data protection law and copyright). The Japanese and Chinese editions of his Springer book on The Laws of Robots are available since Spring 2018.

Representative Publications

Monographs

• Pagallo, Ugo (2018) The Laws of Robots. The Chinese edition.
• Pagallo, Ugo (2018) The Laws of Robots. The Japanese edition.
• Pagallo, Ugo (2016) Leibniz: Una breve biografia intellettuale, Wolters Kluwer
• Pagallo, Ugo (2014) Il diritto nell’età dell’informazione. Giappichelli
• Pagallo, Ugo (2013) The Laws of Robots: Crimes, Contracts, and Torts. Springer

Edited Books

• Barfield, Woodrow and Ugo Pagallo (2018) Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence. Elgar
• Pagallo, Ugo, Palmirani, Monica, Casanovas, Pompeu, Sartor, Giovanni and Serena Villata (2018) AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems, Springer
• Casanovas, Pompeu, Pagallo, Ugo, Palmirani, Monica and Giovanni Sartor (2014) AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. Springer
• Durante, Massimo and Ugo Pagallo (2012) Manuale d’informatica giuridica e diritto delle nuove tecnologie. UTET
• Palmirani, Monica, Pagallo, Ugo, Casanovas, Pompeu and Giovanni Sartor (2012) AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. Models and Ethical Challenges for Legal Systems, Legal Language and Legal Ontologies, Argumentation and Software Agents. Springer
• Casanovas, Pompeu, Pagallo, Ugo, Sartor, Giovanni and Gianmaria Ajani (2010) AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. Complex Systems, the Semantic Web, Ontologies, Argumentation, and Dialogue. Springer

Book Chapters

• Pagallo Ugo (2019) The Challenges of Digital Democracy, and How to Tackle Them in the Information Era, in D. Berkich and M. d’Alfonso M. (eds), On the Cognitive, Ethical, and Scientific Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 385-393, Springer, Cham
• Pagallo, Ugo and Serena Quattrocolo (2018) The Impact of AI on Criminal Law, and its Twofold Procedures, in W. Barfield and U. Pagallo (eds). Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 385-409, Elgar, Cheltenham
• Pagallo, Ugo, Corrales, Marcelo, Fenwick, Mark and Forgó Nikolaus (2018), The Rise of Robotics & AI: Technological Advances & Normative Dilemmas. In M. Corrales, M. Fenwick, and F. Nikolaus eds), Robotics, AI and the Future of Law, pp. 1-13, Springer
• Pagallo, Ugo, Palmirani, Monica, Casanovas, Pompeu, Sartor, Giovanni and Serena Villata (2018) Introduction: Legal and Ethical Dimensions of AI, NorMAS, and the Web of Data. In U. Pagallo et al. (eds.), AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems, pp. 1-20, Springer
• Pagallo, Ugo (2017) The Broken Promises of Democracy in the Information Era, in C. Prins, C. Cuijpers, P. L. Lindseth and M. Rosina (eds). Digital Democracy in a Globalized World, pp. 77-99, Elgar, Cheltenham
• Pagallo, Ugo (2017) LegalAIze: Tackling the Normative Challenges of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Through the Secondary Rules of Law, in M. Corrales, M. Fenwick and N. Forgó (eds.), New Technology, Big Data and the Law. Perspectives in Law, Business and Innovation, pp. 281-300, Springer, Singapore
• Pagallo, Ugo (2017) The Group, the Private, and the Individual: A New Level of Data Protection?, in Linnet Taylor, Luciano Floridi and Bart van der Sloot (eds.), Group Privacy: New Challenges of Data Technologies, pp. 159-173, Springer, Dordrecht
• Pagallo, Ugo (2017) AI and Bad Robots: The Criminology of Automation, pp. 643-653, in M. R. McGuire e Th. J. Holt (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Technology, Crime and Justice, London & New York
• Pagallo, Ugo, Durante, Massimo and Shara Monteleone (2017) What Is New with the Internet of Things in Privacy and Data Protection? Four Legal Challenges on Sharing and Control in IoT, pp. 59-78, in R. Leenes, R. van Brakel, S. Gutwirth e P. de Hert (eds.), Data Protection and Privacy: (In)visibilities and Infrastructures, Springer Dordrecht
• Pagallo, Ugo (2016) The impact of domestic robots on privacy and data protection, and the troubles with legal regulation by design, in Serge Gutwirth, Ronald Leenes and Paul De Hert (eds.), Data Protection on the Move, pp. 387-410, Springer, Dordrecht
• Pagallo, Ugo and Massimo Durante (2016) The Philosophy of Law in an Information Society, in Luciano Floridi (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information, pp. 396-407, Oxon & New York
• Agnoloni, Tommaso and Ugo Pagallo (2015) The Power Laws of the Italian Constitutional Court, and Their Relevance for Legal Scholars, in Legal Knowledge and Information Systems – JURIX 2015: The Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference, pp. 1-10, edited by A. Rotolo, IOS Press, Amsterdam
• Pagallo, Ugo (2015) Good Onlife Governance: On Law, Spontaneous Orders, and Design, in The Onlife Manifesto: Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era, pp. 161-177, edited by L. Floridi, Springer, Dordrecht
• Pagallo, Ugo (2015) Teaching “Consumer Robots” Respect for Informational Privacy: A Legal Stance on HRI, in Human-Robot Interactions. Principles, Technologies and Challenges, pp. 35-55, edited by D. Coleman, Nova, New York
• Pagallo, Ugo (2014) The Legal Roots of Social Intelligence and the Challenges of the Information Revolution, in AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems, pp. 11-25, edited by P. Casanovas et al. Springer, Dordrecht
• Pagallo, Ugo (2014) The Legal Challenges of the Information Revolution and the Principle of “Privacy by Design”, in Evolving Issues Surrounding Technoethics and Society in the Digital Age, pp. 128-148, edited by Rocci Luppicini, IGI, Hershey PA
• Pagallo, Ugo and Massimo Durante (2014) Legal Memories and the Right to Be Forgotten, in Protection of Information and the Right to Privacy – A New Equilibrium?, pp. 17-30, edited by Luciano Floridi, Springer, Dordrecht
• Pagallo, Ugo and Eleonora Bassi (2013) Open Data Protection: Challenges, Perspectives, and Tools for the Reuse of PSI, in Digital Enlightenment Yearbook 2013, pp. 179-189, edited by Mireille Hildebrand, Kieron O’Hara and Michael Waidner, IOS Press, Amsterdam
• Pagallo, Ugo (2013) What Robots Want: Autonomous Machines, Codes and New Frontiers of Legal Responsibility, in Human Law and Computer Law: Comparative Perspectives, pp. 47-65, edited by Mireille Hildebrand and Jeanne Gaakeer, Springer
• Pagallo, Ugo (2012) Three Roads to Complexity, AI and the Law of Robots: On Crimes, Contracts, and Torts, in AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. Springer, pp. 48-60
• Pagallo, Ugo (2012) On the Principle of Privacy by Design and its Limits: Technology, Ethics, and the Rule of Law, in European Data Protection: In Good Health?, edited by Serge Gutwirth, Ronald Leenes, Paul De Hert and Yves Poullet. Springer, pp. 331-346
• Pagallo, Ugo (2012) Responsibility, Jurisdiction, and the Future of “Privacy by Design”, in Investigating Cyber Law and Cyber Ethics: Issues, Impacts and Practices, edited by Alfreda Dudley, James Braman and Giovanni Vincenti, Information Science Reference, IGI Global, pp. 1-20
• Pagallo, Ugo (2011) The Trouble with Digital Copies: A Short KM Phenomenology, in Ethical Issues and Social Dilemmas of Knowledge Management. Organizational Innovation, edited by Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa, Information Science Reference, Hershey, IGI Global, pp. 97-112
• Pagallo, Ugo (2010) As Law Goes By: Topology, Ontology, Evolution, in AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. Springer, pp. 12-16
• Glorioso, Andrea, Pagallo, Ugo and Giancarlo Ruffo (2010) The Social Impact of P2P Systems, in Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking, edited by X. Shen, H. Yu, J. Buford e M. Akon. Springer, pp. 47-70

Journals

• O’sullivan, Shane, Nevejans, Nathalie, Allen, Colin, Blyth, Andrew, Leonard, Simon, Pagallo, Ugo Holzinger, Katharina, Holzinger, Andreas, Imran Sajid, Mohammed and Hutan Ashrafian (2019), Legal, regulatory, and ethical frameworks for development of standards in artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous robotic surgery, The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, 15(1): e1968
• Floridi, Luciano, Cowls, John… Pagallo, Ugo et al. (2018) AI4People—An Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society: Opportunities, Risks, Principles, and Recommendations, Minds and Machines, 28(4): 689-707
• Pagallo, Ugo (2018) Apples, oranges, robots: four misunderstandings in today’s debate on the legal status of AI systems, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 376(2133): 20180168
• Pagallo, Ugo (2018) Algo-Rhythms and the Beat of the Legal Drum, Philosophy & Technology, 31 (4), 507-524
• Pagallo, Ugo (2018) Vital, Sophia, and Co.—The Quest for the Legal Personhood of Robots, Information, 9(9): 230
• Floridi, Luciano, Luetge, Christoph, Pagallo, Ugo et al. (2018), Key ethical challenges in the European medical information framework, Minds and Machines, July, pp. 1-15
• Pagallo, Ugo (2017) Intelligenza Artificiale e diritto. Linee guida per un oculato intervento normativo, Sistemi Intelligenti, 29(3): 615-636
• Pagallo, Ugo (2017) The Legal Challenges of Big Data: Putting Secondary Rules First in the Field of EU Data Protection, European Data Protection Law Review, 3(1): 34-46
• Pagallo, Ugo (2017) When Morals Ain’t Enough: Robots, Ethics, and the Rules of the Law, Minds and Machines, 27(4): 625-638
• Pagallo, Ugo (2016) Three Lessons Learned for Intelligent Transport Systems that Abide by the Law, JusLetter IT, November
• Pagallo, Ugo and Massimo Durante (2016) The Pros and Cons of Legal Automation and its Governance, European Journal of Risk Regulation, 7(2): 323-334
• Agnoloni, Tommaso and Ugo Pagallo (2016) The Case Law of the Italian Constitutional Court between Network Theory and Philosophy of Information, Informatica e diritto, XXV(1): 139-152
• Pagallo, Ugo (2015) Cyber Force and the Role of Sovereign States in Informational Warfare, Philosophy & Technology, 28(3): 407-425
• Pagallo, Ugo (2015) The Realignment of the Sources of the Law and their Meaning in an Information Society, Philosophy & Technology, 28(1): 57-73
• Pagallo, Ugo (2013) Online Security and the Protection of Civil Rights: A Legal Overview, Philosophy & Technology, 26(4): 381-395
• Pagallo, Ugo (2013) Robots in the Cloud with Privacy: A New Threat to Data Protection?, Computer Law & Security Review, 29(5): 501-508
• Pagallo, Ugo (2012) Cracking down on Autonomy: Three Challenges to Design in IT Law, Ethics and Information Technology, 14(4): 319-328
• Pagallo, Ugo (2012) Guns, Ships, and Chauffeurs: The Civilian Use of UV Technology and its Impact on Legal Systems, Journal of Law, Information and Science, vol. 21(2): 224-233
• Pagallo, Ugo (2011) ISPs & Rowdy Web Sites Before the Law: Should We Change Today’s Safe Harbour Clauses?, Philosophy and Technology, 24(4): 419-436
• Pagallo, Ugo (2011) Killers, Fridges, and Slaves: A Legal Journey in Robotics, AI & Society, 26(4): 347-354
• Pagallo, Ugo (2011) Robots of Just War: A Legal Perspective, Philosophy and Technology, 24(3): 307-323
• Pagallo, Ugo (2011) Designing Data Protection Safeguards Ethically, Information, 2(2): 247-265
• Pagallo, Ugo (2010) Robotrust and Legal Responsibility, Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 23(3-4): 367-379
• Pagallo, Ugo (2010) Ethics Among Peers: File Sharing on the Internet between Openness and Precaution, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 8(2): 136-149
• Pagallo, Ugo (2010) A new “Ring of Gyges” and the Meaning of Invisibility in the Information Revolution, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 8(4): 364-376

Proceedings

• Pagallo, Ugo, Bassi, Eleonora, Crepaldi, Marco and Massimo Durante (2018), Chronicle of a Clash Foretold: Blockchains and the GDPR’s Right to Erasure, in M. Palmirani (ed.), Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2018: The Thirty-first Annual Conference, pp. 81-90.
• Pagallo, Ugo (2017) From Automation to Autonomous Systems: A Legal Phenomenology with Problems of Accountability, in International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization (IJCAI-17), pp. 17-23
• Pagallo, Ugo (2016) Even Angels Need the Rules: AI, Roboethics, and the Law, in Gal A. Kaminka et al. (eds.), ECAI 2016. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp. 209-215, IOS Press, Amsterdam
• Agnoloni, Tommaso and Ugo Pagallo (2015) The Case Law of the Italian Constitutional Court, Its Power Laws, and the Web of Scholarly Opinions, in “ICAIL’15 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law”, pp. 151-155, ACM, New York
• Pagallo, Ugo (2011) The Adventures of Picciotto Roboto: AI & Ethics in Criminal Law, in The Social Impact of Social Computing, pp. 349-355, Ethicomp 2011 edited by  A. Bissett, T.W. Bynum, A. Light, A. Lauener and S. Rogerson, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK.
• Pagallo, Ugo (2010) The Human Master with a Modern Slave? Some Remarks on Robotics, Ethics, and the Law, in The “backwards, forwards and sideways” changes of ICT, pp. 397-404, Ethicomp 2010 edited by M. Arias-Oliva, T. W. Bynum, S. Rogerson e T. Torres-Corona, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
• Pagallo, Ugo (2010) Power Laws and Levels of Abstraction in Understanding Legal Systems, in Combined Proceedings of the International Symposium on Social Network Analysis and Norms for MAS at the AISB Convention, pp. 41-45, edited by G. Andrighetto, G. Boella, U. Pagallo and S. Villata, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

Courses taught at CTLS

• Comparative Privacy Law (Spring 2009)
• Core Course: The Practice and Theory of Transnational Law (Spring 2020)
• Internet Law (Fall 2013)
• Law and Technology – Theoretical and Critical Perspectives (Spring 2017)
• The Law of Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2020)
• Transnational Legal Theories: Sources, Processes and Institutions (Fall 2013)