Project team

Cristina Poncibò is Full Professor of Comparative Private Law at the Law Department of the University of Turin, Italy, and a Fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto.

Cristina has been a Fellow of the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum at Stanford Law School during the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 academic years. In the 2022-2023 academic year, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of European and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Additionally, in the 2021-2022 academic year, she was a Faculty Member at the Georgetown Law Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) in London.

Her most recent publications include: Generative AI and the Law (Handbook Series, Cambridge University Press, 2025, with M. Ebers, M. Zou and R. Calo), AI and Consumers: Comparative Perspectives (Handbook Series, Cambridge University Press, 2024, with G. Howells, and L. Di Matteo). Artificial Intelligence: Global Perspectives on Law and Ethics (Handbook Series, Cambridge University Press, 2022, with L. Di Matteo and M. Cannarsa, eds); Contracting and Contract Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Hart, 2022, with M. Ebers and M. Zou, eds) and Smart Contracts, Blockchain Technology and Digital Platforms (Handbook Series, Cambridge University Press, 2019, with L. Matteo and M. Cannarsa, eds). Currently, Cristina is co-editing a Routledge book on Product Liability for AI, IoTs and Platforms (2026).

Cristina is a delegate of the Law Department (sponsor institution) to the American Association of Comparative Law, and a member of the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF).  She is also a member of the Council of the European Law Institute (and member of ELI Digital SIG), the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA), the Society for European Contract Law (SECOLA), the Italian Association of Comparative Law (SIRD) and the Italian Society for the Social Studies of Science and Technology (STS Italia).

She regularly serves as a legal expert for European institutions, EU agencies, and international organizations. She has also led, as Principal Investigator, or participated as a member of the research team in numerous studies and research projects commissioned by these institutions, addressing topics such as consumer protection in digital markets, collective redress, damages actions for breaches of competition law, and legal issues related to AI systems and the Internet of Things.

Cristina is a graduate of the University of Turin (Bachelor and Master in EU Private Law), Cambridge (Mst in AI Ethics & Society) and Florence (PhD in Comparative Law) and was an associate in a UK law firm and an intern at the Italian Competition Authority. In her career, Cristina has also been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow from the European Commission for the two-years research project “EU Networks” at the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) and a Max Weber Fellow at the Law department of the European University Institute (EUI).

Cristina has been appointed as the Scientific Director of the Master in International Trade Law at the University of Turin, in partnership with ITC-ILO, and in cooperation with UNCITRAL and UNIDROIT, since the 2024-2025 academic year. She has also served as the Scientific Director for the program during the academic years 2015-2018, and 2022-2023.

Valentina Cavanna is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turin and a lawyer in environmental, health and safety and sustainability law. 

She holds a PhD in Law and Institutions from the University of Turin with a thesis concerning consideration of health in environmental proceedings and Health Impact Assessment.

She is co-chair of the “Health Section” and the “AI and Emerging Technology” of the International Association for Impact Assessment.

She authored several publications about environmental matters. 

Eleonora Bechis is a research fellow at the Department of Law of the University of Turin, within the project The Right to Clean Air. She holds a degree in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology from the University of Turin. Her research focuses on the social effects of industrial contamination, anthropogenic pollution, and environmental litigation, topics she has explored through the projects "A 25 anni dalla Convenzione di Aarhus: informazione, consultazione e partecipazione di comunità in materia di ambiente e salute" and "Fare scienza di comunità in materia di ambiente, lavoro, salute", both based at the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society of the University of Turin. She is a member of the Contaminazioni laboratory at the same department.