Biography

Erik Longo is a Full Professor of Constitutional and Public Law at the University of Florence, Italy, where he teaches Public Law, Data Protection Law, Rights and Rules for Artificial Intelligence, and Information and Pluralism in the Digital Era.

He previously served as Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Macerata. His research focuses on Italian and European constitutional law, with particular attention to the constitutional and regulatory challenges raised by digital technologies, artificial intelligence, data protection, cybersecurity, media pluralism, disinformation, freedom of expression, and platform governance.

Erik Longo has extensive experience in European and international research projects, particularly in digital regulation, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, data protection, and media literacy. He is the founder of the Florence School of Digital Constitutionalism and lectures at the Oxford AI and Media Policy Summer Institute. He has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame, in 2012; the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, in 2014; and Queen’s University Belfast in 2018.