Security and Law

Coordinator of the Curriculum

Prof. Giorgio Afferni (DiGi, Università di Genova)

Research Lines

The research lines can be broadly classified in the following areas:

• Security and constitutional law

E-democracy, cybersecurity and fundamental rights in the cyberspace

E-government, sustainability and digital transition of the citizenship

Rule of law and algorithmic administration

• Security and administrative law

Algorithms in public decision-making

New technologies and digitalization in cultural heritage, civil protection, and public contracts

Smart city public regulation and governance, also with regard to climate change

• Security and philosophy of the law

Legal modelling and simulation

Analytical legal theory and the quality of legislation

• Security and criminal law

criminal protection of worker health and safety

food sustainability and safety; sustainability and criminal protection of environment

criminal protection of trademarks and market security

• Security and criminal procedure law

Artificial intelligence and the digitization of criminal justice

Cyber-crimes, cyber-attacks, and digital investigations

Blockchain forensics and tools to counter crypto-crimes 

• Security and private law

Class actions and other mechanisms of collective enforcement of rights

The use of new technologies to facilitate access to justice

• Security and civil procedure law

The role of civil procedure in managing risk and uncertainty in litigation

Procedural challenges raised by emerging technologies (e.g., AI, cybersecurity, data breaches)

Interim measures and precautionary instruments as safeguards in security-sensitive disputes

• Security and labour law

Employer accountability techniques

Virtual reality and metaverse as drivers of change in Labour Law

Algorithm discrimination in the labour market

• Security and Economic Law

Digital finance and the challenges of regulating innovative markets, products and services

Sustainability of economic activities and their financing; sustainable digital finance

• Security and EU law

Common commercial policy and EU regulation of strategic assets (energy, food, infrastructures, data, dual use-items, etc.)

Common security and defence policy

EU Space of freedom, security and justice

• Security and international law

The Private International Law of Secured Transactions

Cyber War and Cyber Security in International Law