Nicola Lucchi is a lecturer in legal informatics at the Law Faculty of the University of Ferrara - Italy [www.unife.it/igm]. He obtained his law degree from the University of Ferrara. He was visiting scholar in law at the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, and at the University of Texas at Austin. His awards include the European Commission’s, Kaléidoscope Programme scholarship and the Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship to the University of Texas at Austin. From June 2001 to May 2005 he worked as Honorary Judge at the Court of Ferrara. Before joining the academia, Nicola was public relations assistant to one of Italy’s foremost classical music conductors Claudio Abbado and also to the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
In 2006-07 he will be Global and Engelberg Center Research Fellow, at the NYU School of Law.
Nicola’s research focuses on intellectual property issues and rights in digital media, their connection with consumer protection, and the limits on freedom of contracts imposed by technological power. In particular, it analyzes, from a EU/US comparative perspective, the complex issues concerning legal protection, technological measures and new business models associated with the use, distribution, and control of digital media.