Irene Sigismondi

Irene Sigismondi is a Teaching Assistant at the Sapienza University of Rome in the field of Public/Constitutional Law, Legal Theory and Online Dispute Resolution (ODR).  After getting her degree in law (LUISS, Rome 1995), she became a practicing attorney.  Irene then gained her Ph.D. in Information Technology (ITC) and Law (Sapienza University of Rome, 2003). She served as a visiting fellow (2001-2008) at the Yale Center for Internet Studies, with the late Professor Robert Dunne, and a researcher in the National Council of Research (IRSIG/CNR, Bologna, Italy 2003-2007).  She has also been a visiting scholar at Paris I-Sorbonne (Centre de Recherche de Droit Public Comparé).  Her studies focus on the problems of interpretation and evaluation of innovations, both from the legal domain (such as normative reforms) and technological (such as legal issues arising from technologies in social and economic life). At the LUISS School of Managment she has been the primary administrator of a EU grant since 2009 where she is working to optimize the use of technologies for the administration of justice in several Italian Courts.

She has participated as an invited speaker at several international congresses on ITC and Law and ODR (Graduate Webshop on Internet and Society University of Maryland 2002 and 2003, and with the assistance of NSF grants, Orlando Florida, 2004); Seminars on legal issues on ADR/ODR (Bruxelles and Barcelona 2009, Buenos Aires 2010 and Chennai 2011) presenting the regulatory panorama of ADR/ODR in Italy and prospects elsewhere.   She has co-organized international symposia at Sapienza University of Rome on Legal Theory and Information Technology and Law.  Among her publications is a textbook on Good Administration and Politics (Il principio del buon andamento tra politica e amministrazione, 2011).