Ph.D. students
Dirpolis Institute
Federica Fedorczyk
Bio
- Research Fellow (Assegnista di Ricerca) at EURA Center of Excellence on the Regulation of Robotics and AI where I work on AI regulation and the ethical-legal assessment of advanced technologies in light of the EU AI Act (April 2024 - ongoing)
- Ph.D. Candidate in Criminal Law (October 2020 - ongoing)
- Ph.D. Thesis: "Artificially Intelligent Criminal Justice? A policy oriented critical plea"
In my PhD thesis I aim to demonstrate that the use of AI in the criminal justice system could provoke a change in the traditional categories of liberal criminal law and to inquire what kind of changes could be performed. I particularly focus on the shift towards a securitatian criminal law, digital authoritarianism and the use of mass surveillance for purposes unrelated to national security.
Experiences abroad and external activities
- Post-Doctoral Emile Noël Fellow at Jean Monnet Center of NYU School of Law, New York City (forthcoming September 2024-May 2025): https://jeanmonnetprogram.org/fellows/fellow-year/
- Doctoral Fellow with Scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg (January 2024 - April 2024)
- Ph.D. Visiting Research Fellow at Fordham Law School in New York City (September 2022 - April 2023)
Other
- Lawyer (National Qualification for Practicing Law)
- Law Master’s Degree cum laude (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
Research
My research interests include:
- intersection between AI and criminal justice;
- AI and democracy;
- human rights;
- existential risks related to AI;
- smart prisons;
- gender-based crimes and discrimination.