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Antonino Rotolo

Full Professor

Department of Legal Studies

Academic discipline: GIUR-17/A Philosophy of Law

Curriculum vitae

Personal Information

Date of Birth: January 30, 1971
Nationality: Italian

Address:
Alma Human AI
University of Bologna
Via Galliera, 3
I-40121 Bologna
Italy
E-mail: antonino.rotolo@unibo.it

1.1. Current Employment

2014-present. Full Professor (“Professore ordinario”, IUS/20), Department of Legal Studies, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy.

1.2. Employment History

2007-2014. Associate Professor (“Professore associato” IUS/20), Law Faculty, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy.

2002-2007. Lecturer (“Ricercatore a tempo indeterminato”, IUS/20), Law Faculty, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy.

2000-2002. Postdoc research position (“Assegnista di ricerca”), CIRSFID, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy.

1.3. Institutional Responsibilities

2023-present. Deputy Head (“Vice-direttore”), Alma Mater Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna.

2015-2021. Vice Rector for Research (Vice President, “Prorettore per la ricerca”), Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy.

2012-2014. Deputy Head (“Vice-direttore”, with responsibility for research), Department of Legal Studies, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna.

1.4. Other Institutional Responsibilities (selected)

2024-present. Member of the Scientific Board of ECHOES (HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-01).

2023-present. Co-leader (with Luciano Floridi) of Research Group on Societal Implications and Impact of HPC (SII), National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing (PNRR).

2023-present. Co-leader (with Luciano Floridi) of the Ethics and Data Governance Board, National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing (PNRR).

2023-present. Member of the Advisory Board of the Observatory, National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing (PNRR).

2021-present. Member of the Board of Directors of Fondazione TICHE (Technological Innovation in Cultural HEritage), Cluster Tecnologico Nazionale Tecnologie per il Patrimonio Culturale (Italian Ministry of University and Research).

2021-2023. Executive Board Member, ICDI (Italian Computing and Data Infrastructure).

2020-2023. Director of Consorzio ALPHABET (including Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Bononia University Press, Fondazione "Federico Zeri"), Italy.

2019-2020. Member of the Board of Directors of Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), Italy.

2018-present. Member of the Steering Committee of DEON Association, Luxembourg.

2017-2021. Member of the Board of Directors of Fondazione Dott. Carlo Fornasini, Italy.

2016-2021. Member of the General Assembly of The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities, Brussels, Belgium.

1.5. Education

2000. PhD in Philosophy of Law, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.

1998-1999. Visiting PhD student, Dept. of Computer Science, King’s College London, UK.

1998-1999. Member of Logic and Computation Group, Dept. of Computer Science, King’s College London, UK.

1995. Master of science degree in Philosophy - Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy.

1.6. Teaching Activities

Professor of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law, Law School, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna.

Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Law (advanced course, PhD Law, Science, and Technology).

Board Member of LAST-JD “Joint International Doctoral (Ph.D.) Degree in Law, Science and Technology”, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna.

2000-2022: Thesis supervisor of about 60 master of science students.

Past Member of the Committee of the PhD programme of Computer Science and Law at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna.

PhD thesis supervisor (past PhD programme of Computer Science and Law, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna).

Professor in the Summer School on Law and Logic, European University Institute, Florence.

1.7. Research

1.7.1. Statement of Research Interests

Antonino Rotolo’s research interests include legal theory, law and digital technologies, legal philosophy, artificial intelligence and law, philosophical logic, normative and legal reasoning, defeasible reasoning, the foundations of practical reason.

1.7.2. Research Impact Metrics

Google Scholar [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QJYH3OIAAAAJ&hl=it]

1.7.3. Antonino Rotolo’s Research Online

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonino-Rotolo/9

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QJYH3OIAAAAJ&hl=it

https://dblp.org/pid/89/4715.html

1.7.4. Research Projects (selected)

2024-present. Project Coordinator, European Research Project EUSAiR “EU Regulatory Sandboxes for AI” (DIGITAL-2024-AI-ACT-06-SANDBOX)

2023-present. Task leader, PE01 – “Future Artificial Intelligence Research” FAIR (PNRR), Spoke 8 – Pervasive AI, Next Generation Europe.

2023-present. Group Leader and Project Leader, “WPs: Risk in AI and HPC: Methods and Research Dimensions - AI and Demography - Assessing the Impact of AI on Human Knowledge, Competence, and Memory”, Research Group on Societal Implications and Impact (SII), National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing (PNRR), Next Generation Europe.

2023-present. Task leader (Task “Data Ethics”) in the Project “GEMELLO DIGITALE BOLOGNA” (“Digital Twin Bologna”), PON Metro and National Centre for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing (PNRR).

2021-present. UniBO Scientific Coordinator, European Research Project RItrainPlus “Research Infrastructure Training Plus” (H2020-INFRASUPP-2020-2, 101008503)

2022-2023. Project Coordinator and UniBO Coordinator, UNI 4 JUSTICE “Universitas per la Giustizia. Programma per la qualità del sistema giustizia e per l'effettività del giusto processo”, PON Governance e Capacità Istituzionale 2014-2020 (2022-2023).

2021-2021. UniBO Scientific Coordinator, European Research Project Una.Resin “Towards a common Una Europa RESearch and INnovation ecosystem” (H2020-IBA-SwafS-Support-1-2020, 101017416).

2019-2020. UniBO Scientific Coordinator, "Establishing a Regional Research Team Europe in the Framework of the World Humanities Report”, Volkswagen Foundation.

2016-2020. UniBO Scientific Coordinator, European Research Project CROWD-FUND-PORT - Central European Crowd-funding Support (Interreg Central Europe).

2016-2019. UniBO Scientific Coordinator, European Research Project MIREL - MIning and REasoning with Legal texts (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015).

2012-2014. Principal Investigator, UNiBO FARB 2012 “Mortality Salience, Legal and Social Compliance, and Economic Behaviour: Theoretical Models and Experimental Methods”.

2006-2008. UniBO Research Team Member, European Research Project “European project for Standardized Transparent Representations in order to Extend Legal Accessibility (ESTRELLA, IST-4-027655)

2002-2002. UniBO Research Team Member, European Research Project “A Logical Framework for Ethical Behaviour between Infohabitants in the Information Trading Economy of the Universal Information Ecosystem” (EU IST FET UIE project ALFEBIITE, IST-1999-10298).

1999-2000. Principal Investigator, Research Project “Defeasibility of Normative Reasoning” (Research Project “Giovani Ricercatori” supported by the Italian Ministry of Scientific Research), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

1.8. Scholarly Activities

1.8.1. Institutional, Editorial, and Conference Leadership and Reviewing

  • 2014-2015. Member of the “Panel di Valutazione degli Istituti del CNR 2014-2015 - Scienze Umane e Sociali, Patrimonio Culturale”.
  • Associate Editor of Ratio Juris: An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (Oxford, Wiley).
  • Assistant Editor of A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence (Dordrecht, Springer).
  • Reviewer for the following journal (selected):
  • Artificial Intelligence and Law, Springer
  • Ratio Juris, Blackwell-Wiley
  • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Springer
  • Information Systems Frontiers, Springer
  • Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A, Springer
  • Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Press
  • The Logic Journal of IGPL, Oxford University Press
  • Data & Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier
  • Journal of Philosophical Logic, Springer
  • Applied Artificial Intelligence, Taylor & Francis
  • PC chair or co-chair of international conferences such as JURIX, RuleML, WLIAMAS.
  • PC member of the more than 80 international conferences and workshops.

1.8.2. Visiting Research

2018. Visiting scholar, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia.

2005. Visiting scholar, School of ITEE, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

2001. Visiting scholar, School of Information Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, QUT, Brisbane Australia.

2000. Visiting scholar, School of Information Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, QUT, Brisbane Australia.

1998-1999. PhD visitor and Member of the Logic and Computation Group, Dept. of Computer Science, King's College London.

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