Guido Noto La Diega

Biography

Dr Guido Noto La Diega is a Lecturer in Law (Intellectual Property, European & English Legal Systems, EU Law, Legal Research) at the Northumbria University, where he is also a subject specialist for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, as well as Ph.D. supervisor. Member of the multidisciplinary team on “Digital Living”, of the signature area “Law & Sexuality” and of the Research Interest Groups “Information Rights”, “Gender & Sexuality Law”, and “International law”, Guido collaborates with the University of Glasgow within the “Copyright Evidence” project, as well as with the Nexa Center for Internet & Society of Turin within the “Law of service robots” project. He has been appointed "cultore della materia" of Private Law and Intellectual Property by the University of Palermo. After a visiting scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law (Munich) and an Erasmus IP at the University of Lucerne, Guido has been awarded a Ph.D. degree in private law (dissertation in intellectual property and cyberlaw) by the International Doctoral School in Law & Economics “Tullio Ascarelli” and he has been called to the Bar of Italy in 2013, where he has practiced in one of the main law firms specialised in commercial, company, bank, and bankruptcy law. He has completed a postdoc in cloud computing law at Queen Mary University of London. Prior to the current appointment, he has worked as an Assistant Professor of International Intellectual Property Law (Robert Kennedy College), Associate Lecturer (Module Leader) in intellectual property at the Buckinghamshire New University and as a researcher of the Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Centre.

Research Interest

Author of a book and many essays mainly concerning Intellectual Property, Information and Communications Technologies Law, Internet Law, Robot Law, Property Law, Privacy and Data Protection, Commercial Law and Administrative Law, Dr. Guido Noto La Diega is the UK editor of the journal "Diritto Mercato Tecnologia"​ (Law Market Technology), referee of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, scientific board member of "Semina Scientiarum"​ (cross-disciplinary Polish journal on philosophy of science) and editorial board member of the International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law and of “GenIUS” (the Gender & Sexuality Law journal of Italy).