A former lawyer and current professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Turin (Italy), Ugo Pagallo is Vice-President of the Italian Association of Legal Informatics. Author of thirteen monographs, a hundred essays in scholarly journals and book chapters, he has been a member of many international projects and research, collaborating with such institutions as the European Commission, the World Health Organization, and the Japanese government. His main interests are Artificial Intelligence (AI) & law, network theory, governance, human-robot interaction, and information technology law.