Caterina Sganga

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Caterina Sganga is Full Professor of Comparative Private Law at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna since August 2024. Caterina's key research area is international and comparative intellectual property law, with a focus on European copyright law, IP and new technologies (especially artificial intelligence and data science), the balance between IP and fundamental/human rights, and the law and economics of cultural and creative industries (CCIs). Her recent research works cover also the regulation of data ownership and governance, with a focus on non-personal data, and Open Science law and policies. She is the current President of the European Policy for Intellectual Property Association (EPIP) – the leading association of European IP scholars in the fields of law, economics and management - and member of its Board since 2022. In May 2021 she was also elected as the Italian member of the European Copyright Society (ECS), one of the most prestigious independent academic associations in the field of copyright. Alongside these roles, Caterina is also a fellow of the European Law Institute (ELI), and a member of ATRIP (the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property) and ALPS (Association for Law, Property and Society).