Our Mission
The Legal Blockchain Lab is a interdisciplinary research laboratory originally created by Professors Monica Palmirani of the CIRSIFD-AI ( Interdepartmental Centre for Research in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Law and in Computer Science and Law, now unit of research of AlmaAI – Alma Mater Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence), with also the cooperation of NTTDATA. Nowadays, the Scientific Committee of the lab counts several professors and researchers of the CIRSFID-AI, the Department of Legal Studies, the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the University of Bolognaand of University of Urbino. The multidisciplinary approach of the lab is focused on using Legal Informatics methodologies, technologies and theories to bridge the gap between Web 3.0 technologies and Legal, Deliberative and Democratic traditions of countries around the world. We perform prototypes in the legal domain.
Legal
Our research group has more than twenty years of academic experience in Legal Informatics technologies. We have proposed worldwide used XML standards for digitalizing legal resources and other already well-known frameworks and methodologies for handling legal resources
Blockchain
We are researching ways to improve Web 3.0 technologies by applying our Legal Informatics experience on technologies like blockchains and the distributed web
Lab
Our lab is involved in several activities, such as proposing research projects focused on Web 3.0 technologies, and organizing summer schools and seminaries focused on Web 3.0 technologies
Scientific Committee
Monica Palmirani is a professor in Computer Science and Law and Legal Informatics at University of Bologna, School of Law. Her research fields include XML standards and techniques for modelling legal documents, legal knowledge, legal ontologies, legal rules, legal drafting techniques. She has been leaded more than 50 international, European and national research projects in the domain. She has published more than 80 papers and she has been co-chair of LegalDocML (Akoma Ntoso) and LegalRuleML TCs in OASIS. She is also Director of OASIS Board
Fabio is full professor in Computer Science at the University of Bologna. He has been a member of W3C and the initial proponent of the Akoma Ntoso vocabulary. Nowadays he is the co-chair of the LegalDocML Technical Committee in OASIS. Fabio is also interested in Web Technologies, Digital Publishing technologies, Digital Humanities and Semantic Web. He has authored more than 150 papers on his research topics.
Stefano is associate professor in Computer Science at the University of Bologna since 2014, his research interests are in the fields od distributed systems, comunication networks, wireless and mobile systems, complex networks, multimedia systems.
Members
Chantal Bomprezzi is a Research Fellow in Legal Informatics at the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna. Her research interests focus on blockchain technology and related legal implications, with various publications, articles, and participation in workshops, seminars, and conferences (both national and international). She holds a Ph.D. in Law Science and Technology at the University of Bologna (in co-tutorship with the Université du Luxembourg), with a research thesis on blockchain-based smart contracts and contract law.
Nadia is a doctoral researcher at UAB, KUL and UNIBO within the Law, Science and Technology Joint Doctorate – Rights of Internet of Everything, funded by MSCA. She is a European and Transnational Law graduate (University of Trento, 2016), with a special interest in EU company law. Her PhD research focuses on Distributed Ledger Technologies between anonymity and publicity in the Internet of Money landscape, notably from an AML/CFT perspective.
Mirko is a doctoral researcher in the Law, Science and Technology Joint Doctorate - Rights of Internet of Everything, funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
His research focuses on location privacy and inference in online social networks and on the use of distributed ledger technologies and smart contracts for the protection and distribution of individuals’ personal data.
Emilia Richiello is a doctoral researcher in the Law, Science and Technology Joint Doctorate – Rights of Internet of Everything. Her research interests range from Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts to the IoT financial application perspectives. Her PhD research focuses on Decentralized Finance new challenges in EU markets.
Ali Mert Gurkan graduated from Ankara University Law Faculty in 2017. He worked 2 years in the National Parliament of Turkey as a researcher during his bachelor’s studies. In 2021, he completed Leiden University’s Law and Digital Technologies Advanced Master program. Before starting to the Last-JD program, he was a lawyer and working as a researcher for a Decentralized Autonomous Organization. His doctoral research focuses on Distributed ledger technologies beyond financial applications: eDemocracy and new forms of Governance.
Ludovico Papalia is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Bologna, focusing on Blockchain technology. His research interests are centered on the intersection of law and technology, particularly how blockchain technology can innovate legal frameworks and practices. His academic journey includes an L.L.M. in Legal Informatics and IT Law from Sapienza University of Rome, where he graduated cum laude, and a Master's degree in Law from the University of Milan-Bicocca with a thesis on online hate speech. Ludovico's academic experience extends to participating in the Erasmus program at the University of Lapland, further supplemented by numerous postgraduate courses across Europe in areas like public, commercial, and private law, coding, informatics, digital crime, corporate tax governance, and legal informatics.
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