Giovanni Sartor

Giovanni Sartor is professor of Legal informatics and Legal Theory at the European University Institute of Florence and at the University of Bologna. He  obtained a PhD at the European University Institute (Florence), worked at the Court of Justice of the European Union (Luxembourg), was a researcher at the Italian National Council of Research (ITTIG, Florence), held the chair in Jurisprudence at Queen’s University of Belfast (where he now is honorary professor), and was Marie-Curie professor at the European University of Florence. He is President of the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law. He has published widely in legal philosophy, computational logic, legislation technique, and computer law. Among his publications is:  Corso di informatica giuridica:  (Giappichelli, 2008), Legal Reasoning: A Cognitive Approach to the law (Springer: 2005),  The Law of Electronic Agents (Oslo: Unipubskriftserier, 2003),  Judicial Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1998), Logical Models of Legal Argumentation (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996), and Artificial Intelligence in Law (Oslo: Tano, 1993).