Edoardo Raffiotta is a Professor of Law at the University of Milan Bicocca. He is also a Fellow at the Public Law and Policy Program of the University of California at Berkeley and Legal Advisor to the Italian Data Protection Authority. He holds a J.D., Summa cum Laude, from the University of Catania (2004) and a Ph.D. in Constitutional Law from the University of Bologna. He was a Professor of Law at the University of Bologna (from 2011 to 2021).

He is Co-Founder of AIRIA (Associazione Regolazione Intelligenza Artificiale), an Italian association dedicated to advancing the regulatory, ethical, and legal framework for artificial intelligence.

His main areas of interest are constitutional law, administrative law, and comparative law. He has published numerous articles and books: on the exercise of executive powers during a state of emergency comparing European and US constitutional systems; on economic governance and the role of public powers during financial crises; on fundamental rights protection; and on legal and administrative regulation in the tech field. 

His main books are AI Anthology: Legal, Economic, and Social Profiles of Artificial Intelligence (a forthcoming publication by il Mulino); The Emergency Ordinance as Legal Rules (Bononia University Press, 2019); and The Multilevel Government of the Economy: A Study on the Transformations of the Constitutional State in Europe (Bononia University Press, 2013).