Tutor: Prof.ssa Valeria Caredda

Keywords: artificial intelligence, contract, civil law, tort liability

Short bio:

He obtained a Master’s degree in Law in 2020 from the Faculty of Economic, Legal and Political Sciences at the University of Cagliari. Since 2021, he has been a teaching assistant (cultore della materia) in Civil Law at the same university, where he also served as a teaching tutor for the course in Private Law within the Bachelor's degree in Business and Management for the academic years 2024 and 2025. In 2023, he qualified to practice law, and in 2025 he completed a postgraduate specialization in Civil Law at the University of Camerino. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Legal Sciences at the University of Cagliari, conducting research in Civil Law with a project entitled "The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Contractual Activity", focusing in particular on contract law and tort liability.

Thesis abstract:

Artificial Intelligence is an issue of the greatest interest for human development, both for economic and social potentialities, giving rise to what has been called the "Fourth Industrial Revolution". In the context of the wide attention (also) given by scholars to the socio-economic changes triggered by AI, the research project aims at assessing the impact of this new technology on legal acts, with particular regard to the moment of will and the role of private autonomy. The object of specific interest, therefore, is represented by the reconstruction of the negotiating will, focusing on its formation, its imputation and the vices that may affect it, to which corresponds the analysis of legal effects and remedial discipline. To this end, the traditional institutions are screened, especially in contractual matters, to verify their compatibility with the implications generated by the use of IA. The contribution of the intentional and functional perspective, which examines and interprets the outputs of autonomous software in analogy with human behaviors, is fundamental, since it allows continuity in the application of legal rules and rationes already existing in the system, while at the same time not ignoring the differences between man and machine.