Dr Giulia Gentile

Giulia Gentile is Lecturer in Law at Essex Law School, where she researches and teaches the regulatory challenges stemming from the intersection between law and digital technologies. Giulia is also Research Co-Director on AI at Digital Constitutionalism and Policy (DICOPO) and a member of the Scientific Council of the Centre for AI & Digital Humanism (Digihumanism). She joined Essex Law School in 2023, having previously worked as Fellow at LSE Law School, Teaching Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher at Maastricht University. 

She holds a PhD and an LLM from King’s College London, where she also worked as Visiting Lecturer in Law. Her PhD thesis won the 2021 European Public Law Organization PhD Thesis Prize. 
Giulia has provided expert evidence to the UK Parliament on issues concerning the protection of fundamental rights in the UK and digital regulation, and to the European Commission concerning the political rights of the disabled and e-voting procedures. Her academic work was cited, among others, by the UK Parliament, Advocates General at the Court of Justice, the European Banking Authority, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, and the Slovenian Constitutional Court.

She held positions as visiting scholar at the Unitelma Sapienza University (Rome), European University Institute (Florence), the Centre de droit européen of the University Panthéon-Assas (Paris), and the Max Planck Institute of European Procedural Law (Luxembourg). 

Giulia is a qualified lawyer at the Italian Bar Association and has gained legal experience, among others, at the chambers of Judge Lucia Serena Rossi at the Court of Justice of the European Union, and at the M&A Department of Clifford Chance (Milan).