About the Press

The series “Information, Law and Society” was born within the research activities of the Coordinated Research Centre in Information Society Law (“ISLC”) of the University of Milan, founded and coordinated by Giovanni Ziccardi, Professor of Philosophy of Law (Legal Informatics) at the University of Milan, and operating within the Department of Legal Sciences “Cesare Beccaria” of the University of Milan.

The core theme of the series is the relationship between law and technology in all its manifestations. From legal informatics to the law of new technologies, from artificial intelligence to the philosophical, sociological, deontological, ethical and general theory of technology aspects, from computer crimes to online hate crimes, from discrimination in the digital sphere to issues related to the freedom of thought on platforms, digital rights, the protection of vulnerable subjects (especially minors and the elderly), disinformation and conspiracy theories, the centrality of the person, and of the human being, in an increasingly monitored and invasive technological society (“anthropocentric” approach).

The aim of the series is to ensure open access publications, especially (but not exclusively) in English, in three main areas:
1) The preparation of open access textbooks for use in university courses worldwide on the topics of new technology law;
2) the collection of contributions with a truly international scope, from scholars all over the world, in order to overcome an often “local” approach and ensure a broad view of current problems and trends;
3) the publication of monographs, also by young scholars at their first publication, incardinated in the University of Milan or, in any case, employed in the University’s research activities (e.g. international fellows of the centres, or teachers of Masters and Postgraduate courses).

The series committees will carefully evaluate any proposal that comes in, especially if it aims to explore topics that have not yet been well explored in the academic world.