SIF 3rd Cohort Fellows - Marta Giuca, CY Cergy Paris University

Curriculum Vitae

  • Education

October 2022: PhD in Law, University of Catania, Italy. Dissertation title: Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Liability

March 2015: Diploma IUSS - Scuola Universitaria Superiore, Pavia, Italy. Dissertation title: Abusivismo edilizio. Obbligatorietà dell'azione penale e potere sanzionatorio dell'amministrazione.

October 2014: Master Degree in Law, University of Pavia, Italy. Dissertation title: The powers of the criminal judge in administrative actions.

  • Experience 


Current position: Post-doctoral Fellow, EUTOPIA-SIF (Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions Cofund), CY Cergy Paris Université, Faculté de Droit, LEJEP Laboratory

June - October 2021: Visiting Ph. D. Student Researcher, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Ecole Doctorale de Droit Comparé, France 

May – June 2021: Visiting Ph. D. Student Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 

Since November 2017: Italian Lawyer

January 2015 – July 2016: Internship at the Court of Milan, Italy

July – August 2014: Visiting Student, University of Cambridge, Squire Law Library, United Kingdom
 

  • Publications/Research achievements
- AI and Criminal Liability. Algorithmic Error and Human Negligence in the Context of the European Regulation, Diritto Penale Contemporaneo, Rivista Trimestrale, 1/2023, 46-69 
- Disciplinare l’Intelligenza Artificiale. La riforma francese sulla responsabilità penale da uso di auto a guida autonoma, Archivio Penale, 2/2022, 1-54 
- Responsabilità penale e auto a guida autonoma: brevi riflessioni sulla recente riforma del code de la route francese, in C. Camardi (ed.) “La via europea per l'Intelligenza artificiale”, Conference proceedings, Collana del Centro Studi Giuridici del Dipartimento di Economia, Ca' Foscari University, Wolters Kluwer Italia, 2023, 185-195
- Criptovalute e diritto penale nella prevenzione e repressione del riciclaggio, Diritto Penale Contemporaneo, Rivista Trimestrale, 1/2021, 150-190

Research Project

Artificial Negligence and Human Criminal Liability (CRIM-AI)

AI systems bring fundamental changes to our environments, some of which have an impact on criminal liability, due to the shift from the classic notion of “product”. Existing criminal liability rules may not always protect the legal goods, which may lead to a “responsibility gap”.

The research project aims to answer the fundamental question concerning the relationship between law and technological progress in order to guarantee the safeguarding of fundamental rights and values under criminal law in the light of the European principles for a trustworthy AI.

The field of investigation is the negligence of AI systems’ manufacturer and user in case of an algorithmic error, defined as “artificial negligence”. In such a context, the project seeks to identify areas of legislative intervention, balancing the need for the safeguards of legal goods, on the one hand, and the respect of the principles of individual responsibility and legality under criminal law, on the other hand. These reflections are then tailored into two specific contexts of the use of AI systems: that of automated vehicles and AI in healthcare.