Tommaso Fia

Postdoctoral Researcher

Tommaso Fia is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Law and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Tübingen. His research areas encompass (EU) data governance, private law, the commons, and property theory. He is particularly interested in normative approaches and theories of justice applied to data governance, and the political economy of data. He has published several papers in top-tier law journals on, amongst other things, commons-based data governance, trade secrecy in the data economy, and the impact of commodification on EU law. He is also a teaching assistant for the modules ‘Private Law in Digital Markets’ and ‘Consumer Law’ of the University of Turin.

Prior to joining Tübingen, he obtained his PhD from the European University Institute (EUI), where he coordinated the Information Society (InfoSoc) Working Group. During the course of his doctoral studies, he conducted research exchanges at the Centre for Information and Innovation Law (CIIR) of the University of Copenhagen and at the Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law (ACT) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). His doctoral thesis investigates the governance of non-personal data in the EU. He also worked as a trainee lawyer in an international law firm in Milan, advising clients on data protection matters.

Publications

Journal Articles

Gijs van Maanen, Charlotte Ducuing and Tommaso Fia, ‘Data Commons’ (2024) 13 Internet Policy Review 1.
Tommaso Fia, ‘Governance of Urban Data Commons as a Matter of Value Redistribution in the Smart City’ (2024) Sens Public.
Tommaso Fia and Ian J Murray, ‘Commodification and EU Law: A Genealogy’ (2023) 2 European Law Open 372.
Tommaso Fia, ‘Resisting IP Overexpansion: The Case of Trade Secret Protection of Non-personal Data’ (2022) IIC – International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law.
Tommaso Fia, ‘An Alternative to Data Ownership: Managing Access to Non-Personal Data through the Commons’ (2021) 21 Global Jurist 181.
Jan Pohle and others, ‘Data Privacy Legislation in the EU Member States – Part Two of the Practical Overview (Italy)’ (2018) 5 Computer Law Review International 133.
Tommaso Fia, ‘La tutela dei dati non personali: accesso, proprietà e regolamentazione’ (2019) 1 Nuovo Notiziario Giuridico 60.

Book chapters

Tommaso Fia, ‘Trasparenza del Trattamento e Legal Design: Verso un Approccio Comportamentale e Democratico’ in Barbara Pasa and Gianni Sinni (eds), Transparency by Design: Incontro Interdisciplinare sul Principio di Trasparenza dei Dati Personali. Venezia, 19 dicembre 2022 (Bembo Officina Editoriale 2024).
Tommaso Fia, ‘Data Governance to Tackle Covid-19: Some Lessons to Be Learnt from the Pandemic’ in Francisco De Abreu Duarte and Francesca Palmiotto (eds), Sovereignty, Technology and Governance after COVID: Legal Challenges in a Post-Pandemic Europe (Hart 2022).
Roberto Valenti and Tommaso Fia, ‘Creazioni dell’intelligenza artificiale e profili di tutela autorale’ in Giulio Coraggio and others, Come preparare la propria azienda alla digital revolution. Opportunità, obblighi e rischi dell'intelligenza artificiale (Wolters Kluwer 2019).