About

I am a legal scholar interested in law and technology, digital economy, data governance, and infrastructures. My work focuses on the normative, material, and distributive infrastructures of the digital economy. I use an interdisciplinary approach to examine legal and governance implications of digital technologies and how they in turn reshape law and governance, with a particular interest in issues of democracy, inequality, and expertise. My work draws on socio-legal theory, critical data studies, and science and technology studies (STS), among other approaches. I take a global approach to my research, due to the transboundary qualities of the digital economy.

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Law at Capital University Law School, where I teach courses on Property, Business Associations, and Law & Technology. I am also a Summer Lecturer at Harvard University, where I teach a course on “Global Digital Law & Politics,” and a Co-Convenor of the European Society of International Law’s Interest Group on International Law & Technology.

I have published articles and speak regularly at international conferences about current issues around law and digital technology. My publications have appeared or are forthcoming in the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Heidelberg Journal of International Law, Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Denver Journal of International Law and Policy, Harvard International Law Journal Online, and juridikum – Austria’s Critical Law Review.

In addition to my ongoing research projects, I am currently working on a monograph titled Cable Empires: Infrastructures and the Making of Empire, Technology, and International Law, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press.

I hold a PhD in Law & Institutions from the University of Turin Faculty of Law, Italy. I also hold a JD (Juris Doctor) from the University of California, College of the Law San Francisco (UC Law SF, formerly UC Hastings) with a specialization in International Law. Previously, I was a Fellow with the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum at Stanford Law School, a Visiting Fellow with the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard Kennedy School, and an Affiliate with the Center on Global Legal Transformation at Columbia Law School. I have spent research stays at the Institute for Global Law & Policy at Harvard Law School and at Sciences Po Law School. Prior to returning to academia, I practiced law for several years focusing on financial transactions and data privacy law.

I am a Fellow with the European Law Institute, and am licensed to practice in the state of California. In my free time I enjoy traveling and painting.