Wellbeing and Privacy in an Age of Addictive Technologies: New Legal Challenges in the EU and US
Featuring Dr. Giulia Binato, University of Padova (Italy)
Thursday, April 17
Free and open to the public, with a limited number of lunches for attendees.
Giulia Binato is an Adjunct Professor of Comparative Legal Systems at the University of Padova’s Department of Private Law and Critique of Law. Since completing her Ph.D. in Law in 2019, she has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Padova, where she has taught Privacy and AI Regulation in Context, as well as Private Law and Economics. Her research and teaching interests include family law, media law, digital assets, and data protection. Dr. Binato is the author of the monograph Filiazione e attribuzione della genitorialità. Una prospettiva europea (ESI, 2024), which discusses legal parenthood in Europe. Her most recent works include: chapters on Data transfers and Digital inheritance in the European Union, the United States, and the People’s Republic of China in the handbook Data Protection in Context: Between Privacy and AI (Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2025); an essay on civil liability for propagating harmful digital content (È “solo un like”? Alcune riflessioni comparatistiche in materia di responsabilità civile per la reazione a contenuti controversi pubblicati sui social network, 2024); a comparative analysis of laws regarding children’s accounts on social networks (Account dei minori di età e social network, 2022). She is a member of both the International Society of Family Law (ISFL) and the Italian Association of Comparative Law (AIDC), as well as the Executive Board of Legal Roots – The International Journal of Law, Legal History and Comparative Law. Giulia Binato is licensed to practice law in Italy. She obtained a postgraduate professional specialization in Fashion law from the University of Milan in 2023.