Faculty associate
Giancarlo Frosio is a Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law in the School of Law and Director of the Global Intellectual Property and Technology (G-IPTech) Centre. The G-IPTech Centre, launched on June 5, 2023, aims to foster collaboration and innovation in addressing legal challenges in the digital age. At the School of Law, Giancarlo also serve as the Programme Lead of the LLM in Intellectual Property Law, which he has personally designed and launched. He is also a Non-Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School and a Faculty Associate of the NEXA Research Center for Internet and Society in Turin. In addition, he is a Visiting Professor at the LL.M. in Intellectual Property law jointly organized by WIPO and the University of Turin (since 2010), where he also served as the Deputy Director from 2010 to 2013, and a Visiting Professor at the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) at Strasbourg University.
Previously, he was an Associate Professor at the CEIPI at Strasbourg University (2016-2021), where I also co-directed the Master 2 (LLM) in International and European IP Law. He also served as the Intermediary Liability fellow with Stanford CIS (2013-2016). At Stanford CIS, Giancarlo launched the Intermediary liability research focus area of the Center and the World Intermediary Liability Map (WILMap). Giancarlo served as a post-doctoral researcher at KU Leuven Center for IT & IP (CiTiP), COMMUNIA Fellow at the NEXA Center and CREATe Fellow at the University of Nottingham. As a COMMUNIA and CREATe fellow, Giancarlo drafted extensive reports on the digital public domain and open access publishing respectively. He is a qualified attorney with a doctoral degree (S.J.D.) in IP law from Duke Law School. Additionally, Giancarlo holds an LL.M. from Duke Law School and an LL.M. in IT and Telecoms law from Strathclyde University. As an attorney, Giancarlo worked with the Intellectual Property & Technology Group of a prominent international law firm.
Giancarlo has also acted as an expert for the World Intellectual Property Organisation, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Intellectual Property Office and other international organisations. Giancarlo has dedicated most of his 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, Giancarlo has focused on five main research clusters: Intellectual Property (IP) and digitization; IP, public interest, and global justice; history and economics of creativity; Information Technology, Internet governance, platform economy, and Fundamental Rights online; Artificial Intelligence and the law. He has 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. He is the author of numerous legal articles and publications, which can be found at SSRN and Google Scholar. His latest book is titled Reconciling Copyright with Cumulative Creativity: the Third Paradigm and was published with Edward Elgar in 2018. Giancarlo is also the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability published by Oxford University Press (2020). He is working on two new monographs, respectively titled “Creativity in the Intelligence Age: Law, Policy and Market Incentives’ and “Digital Intellectual Property Law: Data, Algorithms and Platforms”.