Dr. Antonio Davola, LLB with honors (University of Pisa, 2015), LLM (Yale Law School, 2018) PhD with honors in “Law and Technology” (Sant’Anna School of Advanced studies, Pisa, 2019) is Adjunct Professor and Post-Doc Research Fellow at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome (2018-2020) and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Amsterdam.
His main areas of interest involve competition law, consumer protection and the regulation of new technologies. In particular, he devotes significant attention to the application of experimental and empirical analysis to consumer protection, consistently with a research approach strongly focused on Law&Economics.
He conducted, amongst others, research on the regulation of road accident caused by autonomous vehicles, on privacy implications related to the use of civil drones, on algorithmic discrimination and disparate impact arising from the use of behavioral and environmental data for the assessment of consumer credit-scoring, and on the legal fundaments of the interplay between private law and smart contracts.
Within these fields, Antonio authored and co-authored publications in Italian (Il Foro Italiano; Responsabilità Civile e Previdenza, Rivista Italiana di Medicina Legale, Danno e Responsabilità) and foreign reviews (Digest: National Italian American Bar Association Law Journal, Revista de Concorrência & Regulação, Idaho Law Review), and he presented his researches in national and international Conferences (Law and Society Conference, University of Toronto; IGLP Conference, Harvard Law School; European Society of Law and Economics Conference, Lecce).