Paolo Guarda

Assistant Professor  in Comparative Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Trento
Via Verdi, 53 – 38122 Trento – ItalyTelephone: +39 0461 283515E-mail: paolo.guarda@unitn.it
 

 

Main research activities

  • Post-doc in Comparative Private Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Trento – Italy (December 2016 – November 2017); project title: “I dati della ricerca scientifica tra diritti di proprietà intellettuale e disciplina in materia di protezione dei dati personali” [Research data between intellectual property rights and data protection”]
  • Post-doc in Comparative Private Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Trento – Italy (February 2014 – February 2016); project title: “Economic and linguistic barriers to the exercise of intellectual property rights by EU citizens” (Project “Rights reserved? Costrains and contradiction of European citizenship” (bEUcitizens) funded by European Commission under the FP7 co-ordinated, as far as the Trento Unit, by Prof. Elena Ioriatti (2013-2017))
  • Post-doc in Comparative Private Law at the Department of Legal Sciences, University of Trento – Italy (January 2012 – January 2014); project title: “La gestione del software in ambito universitario: proprietà intellettuale, regime di titolarità e valorizzazione sul mercato” [Management of IPRs on software within the academic context]
  • Post-doc in Comparative Private Law at the Department of Legal Sciences, University of Trento – Italy (January 2010 – January 2012); project title: “La valorizzazione sul mercato dei prodotti della ricerca scientifica: un’analisi economica e comparata delle problematiche giuridiche” [Technology transfer issues]
  • Post-doc in Comparative Private Law at the Department of Legal Sciences, University of Trento – Italy (September 2008 – September 2009); project title: “Sicurezza dei dati e tutela della riservatezza nelle architetture informatiche volte ad implementare la cartella clinica digitale” [Electronic Health Records and Data Protection]

Education

  • Ph. D. in Comparative Private Law at the Department of Legal Sciences, University of Trento – Italy (2007); title of the thesis: “Privacy and Security Mesaures in a Comparative Perspective”
  • Doctor in Law (Magna Cum Laude), University of Trento (2002); title of the thesis: “Immissioni e Tort of Nuisance”

Current Position

  • Assistant Professor in Comparative Private Law

Teaching Activities

  • Lecturer on Comparative Legal System at the Faculyt of Law – University of Trento, 2015-20
  • Lecturer on Comparative Information, Communication, and Technology Law at the Faculty of Law – University of Trento, 2014-20
  • Lecturer on Information Technologies Law at the Department of Economics and Management – University of Trento, 2012-15
  • Lecturer on Private Information Technologies Law at the Faculty of Law – University of Trento, 2013-14
  • Lecturer at the XI Edition of the Transatlantic Intellectual Property Summer Academy at the University of Milan – Bocconi University, 6 July 2017 on “Copyright in the Digital Era: From the Origins of Copyright to the Changing Technological Landscape” and on “Software Protection and Exploitation: IPRs, Licenses and Business Models”
  • Lab on “Intellectual Property Rights and licenses” at the Faculty of Law – University of Trento, 2013-14
  • Lecturer at the VII Transatlantic Intellectual Property Summer Academy at the University of Alicante (Spain), 9 – 13 September 2013 on “Rethinking Copyright Protection: a Law and Technology Perspective” and, together with Dr. Matteo Ferrari, “Open Models, Open Seeds: Towards an Open Protection?”
  • Lab on “University, Intellectual Property and Knowledged Transfer”, University of Trento, Faculty of Law, 2011-2012
  • Lecturer on “Privacy and Data Protection” and “Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Transfer” at the CoDe – Joint European Master in Comparative Local Development, University of Trento, 2011-14
  • Lecturer of the refresher course on “Privacy and Data Protection” at Cosbi (Microsoft Research Center – University of Trento), june 8, 2011
  • Lecturer on “Copyright protection of research results in the digital age and the Paradigmatic Case of Doctoral Thes” at the “Crash Course on Intellectual Property and Research Funding”, organized by Research and Technology Transfer Support Division – University of Trento -, May 9, 2011
  • Lab on “ Computer Security and Data Protection”, University of Trento, Faculty of Law, 2007-11
  • Lecturer (Professore a contratto) of “Legal Issues in Computer Science”, Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen, 2009 – 2010
  • Lecturer on “Legal and Funding” at the Master Nano-Micro, promoted by the Faculty of Science, University of Trento and Foundation Bruno Kessler (FBK),  Trento, April 2010
  • Lecturer on “Copyright  and protection of research results in the digital age” at the “Crash Course on Intellectual Property and Research Funding”, organized by Research and Technology Transfer Support Division – University of Trento -, April 8, 2010
  • Lecturer at the Spring Training School “Open Scholarly Communities on the Web: Theory and Practice” at the Faculty of Political Science – University of Pisa (Italy), 24 March 2010: “Creative Commons for Scholars”
  • Lecturer at the Transatlantic Intellectual Property Summer Academy 2009 at the Faculty of Law – University of Trento (Italy), 15 June – 19 June 2009: with prof. Roberto Caso “Copyright and Scientific Publications”; with dr. Matteo Macilotti “The Biobanks and the Patents”
  • Lecturer of the refresher course on “Privacy and Data Protection” at The Microsoft Research – University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology, October-November 2008
  • Lecturer  at the School of specialization for the legal professions, University of Trento and Verona (Italy) on “Basics on Computer Law” – 2007-12
  • Lecturer on “Information Security and Privacy” at the Professional Master “Technologies for E-Government”, Trento, Nov-Dec 2007

International Research Experiences

  • Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Munich (Germany), from January to May and from July to December 2012 (scholarship holder from March 1st to May 15th and from August 1st to December 31st 2012)
  • University of Oxford, January 2009
  • Instituut voor Informatierecht Universiteit van Amsterdam (the Netherlands), December 2006 – January 2007
  • School of Law – University of California, Berkeley, July – August 2005
  • University of Maastricht (the Netherlands), Socrates-Erasmus project, November 2000 – April 2001

Prizes and other academic awards

  • Winner of the prize sponsored by the University of Trento for the best PhD graduates of the Academic Year 2005-2006 for the doctoral thesis “Privacy and technical security measures. Comparative analysis” (Supervisor Professor Giovanni Pascuzzi)