The De Gruyter Handbook on Law and Digital Technologies

The De Gruyter Handbook on Law and Digital Technologies provides a comprehensive, accessible and thought-provoking guide to the current and future regulation of digital technologies. It addresses key legal challenges such as reconceptualizing crucial, deep-rooted notions, including those of person, autonomy, democracy, the rule of law, sovereignty, constitutionalism and governance.
The handbook proposes critical explorations of the potential impact of digital technologies on new and traditional forms of governance and regulation across different and competitive normative perspectives such as law, economy, social norms and legal design. In this framework, it addresses the societal transformations brought about by digital technologies, the legal means for regulating the field, and the impact of governance in areas such as fintech, sustainability, outer space, or healthcare.

About the author

Massimo Durante is Full Professor in Philosophy of Law and Legal Informatics at the Department of Law, University of Turin. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Law, Department of Law, University of Turin, and a Ph.D. in Moral Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Paris IV Sorbonne. He is Vice-director of the Joint International Doctoral (Phd) degree in "Law, Science, and Technology" and the Doctoral Program "Right of Internet of Everything". He is Faculty Fellow of the Nexa Center for Internet and Society at the Politecnico of Turin.
Ugo Pagallo is a former lawyer and current professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Turin (Italy). He is author of fourteen monographs, a hundred essays in scholarly journals and book chapters, and an active participant in international conferences and research groups, including the high-level expert groups of the European Commission and the World Health Organization, shaping the global conversation on the legal and ethical dimensions of AI and further emerging technologies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Massimo Durante (Editor), Pagallo (Editor), Ugo Pagallo (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2025
• EAN: 9783111346564
• ISBN: 978-3-11-134656-4
• No. of pages: 450
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 35 mm x 245 mm
• Weight: 1014 g
• Illustrations: 10 b/w and 3 col. ill., 6 b/w tbl.
• Series: De Gruyter Handbooks of Digital Transformation
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Verwaltung, Governance, Sozialer Wandel, Design, digitale Technologie, Regulation, Digital lifestyle, Digital Technologies, POL000000 POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, social transformation, SOC000000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Computer networking & communications, SOC026000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOC052000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Law Design