Prof Oreste Pollicino

Prof Oreste Pollicino is the founder of Oreste Pollicino AIdvisory and Full Professor of Constitutional Law and AI Regulation at Bocconi University in Milan. A leading voice on digital rights, data protection and the regulation of artificial intelligence, he has been recognised with the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2026 — Data Protection Law Firm of the Year in Italy.

An academic authority on digital rights

At Bocconi University, Oreste Pollicino serves as Full Professor of Constitutional Law and AI Regulation and directs the LL.M Master in Law of Technology and Automated Systems, which he has led since 2020. He is also co-director of the research unit on Law and Economic Studies (RULES). He is among Europe's most-cited constitutional scholars on questions of fundamental rights online, digital technologies, AI governance and disinformation, and he is noted as the only jurist in Italy to have received, in 2014, simultaneous national qualifications for full professor across three disciplines: constitutional law, comparative law and EU law.

This scholarly foundation is matched by extensive institutional engagement. Prof Pollicino has served in advisory roles connected to the Italian Prime Minister's Office, the National Cybersecurity Agency and the communications regulator AGCOM, and he has contributed at European level, including work touching the European Commission's efforts on disinformation and AI governance and engagement with the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. His publications span monographs, edited volumes, journal articles and policy work on constitutional law, digital rights and AI.

Oreste Pollicino AIdvisory

Through his advisory practice, Prof Pollicino brings this constitutional and regulatory expertise to public and private organisations grappling with the legal challenges of the digital age. The advisory work is described as encompassing compliance and governance of artificial intelligence, data protection and the safeguarding of fundamental rights, fundamental-rights impact assessments for public and private entities, alignment with recent European legislation including the AI Act and sustainability rules, and European and constitutional litigation.

The name “AIdvisory” captures the practice's distinctive orientation: advice at the meeting point of artificial intelligence, data protection and constitutional principle. As organisations deploy AI systems and process personal data at scale, they increasingly need counsel that can connect technical compliance obligations with the deeper questions of fundamental rights that European law places at the centre of the digital order.

Data protection law in Italy and Europe

Italy's data-protection regime operates within the framework of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, supervised at national level by the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali. Organisations must address lawful bases for processing, transparency, data-subject rights, security and accountability, and increasingly the interaction between the GDPR and the emerging body of European digital regulation, including the AI Act. For businesses and public bodies alike, navigating this landscape calls for advisers who understand both the letter of the regulation and its constitutional underpinnings.

• AI compliance and governance
• Data protection and fundamental-rights safeguards
• Fundamental-rights impact assessments
• Alignment with EU legislation, including the AI Act
• European and constitutional litigation

Advising in an era of digital regulation

The past few years have seen an unprecedented expansion of European rules governing data, platforms and artificial intelligence, from the General Data Protection Regulation to the more recent AI Act and related digital legislation. For organisations, this fast-moving environment creates both obligations and uncertainty: they must comply with detailed technical requirements while also respecting the fundamental-rights principles that underpin the whole framework. Prof Pollicino's distinctive contribution is to connect these two levels — the operational and the constitutional — drawing on his scholarship, his institutional roles and his advisory practice. This is precisely the kind of expertise that boards, public bodies and data-protection officers increasingly seek as they design AI governance structures, conduct impact assessments and prepare for a regulatory landscape that continues to evolve at speed across the European Union and Italy in particular.

Prof Oreste Pollicino's combination of academic authority, institutional experience and advisory practice places him at the forefront of data protection and AI regulation in Italy. The Corporate INTL Global Awards 2026 — Data Protection Law Firm of the Year in Italy recognises the depth of expertise that Oreste Pollicino AIdvisory brings to one of the most consequential and fast-moving areas of contemporary law.