Speaker

Rossana Ducato is a postdoctoral researcher in Law at the Université Catholique de Louvain and Université Saint-Louis de Bruxelles.

She is currently working as principal investigator at the project “The Internet of Platforms: an empirical research on private ordering and consumer protection in the sharing economy”.

She is also a fellow of the Law and Technology research group (Faculty of Law, University of Trento).

She holds a Ph.D. in European and Comparative Legal Studies from the University of Trento and she worked there as postdoctoral researcher in Comparative private law from 2014 to 2017.

Her research interests are always pursued in a comparative vein and range from Tort and Contract Law, to Consumer protection, Intellectual Property, and Privacy, 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 online platforms, Big and Open Data, cloud computing, drones, research biobanks and health information technologies.