Rules - Research Unit on Law and Economic Studies
Unit Directors: Filippo Annunziata & Oreste Pollicino
The Research Unit on Law and Economic Studies - Rules aims at redefining on original foundations the relationship between law, digital technology and economics in the field of legal science.
This relationship must rather be seen as an equal dialogue between different research methods, conceptual and cultural traditions that keep their diversity, but that can complement each other.
Cybersecurity and AI Focus Group
Building on the research conducted within DigCon (Digital Constitutionalism: Rights, Remedies, and Policy in the Algorithmic Society), funded by the Italian Science Fund (FIS21), of which Prof. Oreste Pollicino is Principal Investigator, the Rules has established a Cybersecurity and AI Focus Group.
The founding members of the focus group are Oreste Pollicino (Bocconi University), Federica Paolucci (Bocconi University), Francesco Carioti (ACN, Italian National Cybersecurity Agency), Marco Bacini (Lum University of Bari), Luigi Martino (Florence University) and Alessandro Manfredini (chairman of the board of directors of AIPSA – Associazione Italiana Professionisti della Security Aziendale)
The focus team is held in collaboration with the Italian National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN), a key actor in implementing NIS2 and shaping regulatory responses to systemic vulnerabilities.
The main areas of the focus group are:
- Security Governance and Regulation (NIS2 & AI Act)
- Public-private coordination and enforcement mechanisms
- Risk management and resilience frameworks
- AI, Cybersecurity and Systemic Risks
- Security and accountability in high-risk AI applications
- AI-driven threat detection and cybersecurity-by-design models
- Digital Constitutionalism and Regulation
- AI governance and the balance of power between states, corporations and individuals
- The role of cybersecurity in shaping digital sovereignty
- Fundamental rights protection in AI governance