Research output per year
Research output per year
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I supervise doctoral projects dealing with legal aspects of a vast array of Information Technology (IT) and Intellectual Property (IP) subject matters, with special emphasis on IP and digitization; IP/IT, public interest, and global justice; history and economics of creativity; Internet governance, intermediary liability and platform economy; and artificial intelligence. You are more than welcome to reach me to discuss your doctoral proposals.
Research activity per year
My work begins from a central question: how does the law adapt to technological innovation? In this context, interdisciplinary working characterizes my research agenda to the maximum extent, since my primary research interest lies at the intersection of law, technology and the humanities. I have dedicated most of my academic career to studying the interface between technology, innovation, creativity, and intellectual property through the lens of international, European and American law. In doing so, I focused on five main research clusters: Intellectual Property (IP) and digitization; IP, public interest, and global justice; history and economics of creativity; Information Technology (IT), Internet governance, and platform economy; and Artificial Intelligence (AI). I developed expertise in areas of law relevant to technology and other interdisciplinary fields, such as history of art, literature, and creativity, sociological analysis of law, and political theory. My theoretical interests—and research method—extend to the uses of history in legal argumentation. In my most original scholarship, I use history—and research in primary source historical materials—to investigate how social, economic, and legal concepts and categories change over time.
In this context, my research has been covering a vast array of topics, including copyright law, digitization, history of creativity, public domain, open access, Internet and user based creativity, IP rights at large and IP enforcement online, Internet regulation, fundamental rights online, intermediary liability of online service providers, data protection, networked information economy, access to knowledge (A2K), identity politics, and artificial intelligence and the law.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
Giancarlo Frosio (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
Giancarlo Frosio (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
Giancarlo Frosio (Visiting lecturer)
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Research and Teaching at External Organisation
Giancarlo Frosio (Speaker)
Activity: Other activity types › Other
Giancarlo Frosio (Visiting lecturer)
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Research and Teaching at External Organisation