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L’«ALGO-LIBERTÀ»: I PRODROMI DEL «DIRITTO ALL’INNOVAZIONE»

In: V. 30 N. 2 speciale (2026): Diritto Pubblico Europeo Rassegna Online, L. Chieffi, A. Lucarelli, A. Patroni Griffi

Sommario.1. Lunghezza e profondità delle innovazioni sulla relazione potere-libertà. –2. L’«algo-libertà»come espansione della sfera dei diritti. –3. Ripensare la forma di Stato attraverso il «diritto all’innovazione».

Alessandro Sterpa · pp. 1–7 · 2026
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Cognitive Warfare and National Security – Legal and Institutional Aspects

The dimension of hybrid threats forces institutions and individuals to operate in unprecedented scenarios for national security. Cognitive warfare, in particular, tends to subject the legal systems of liberal democracies to a completely new threat, engaging law and social sciences in identifying action tools and rules of intervention that are adequate to the novelties, yet always anchore...

Sgalla R., Alessandro Sterpa, Claudia Capasso, Michele Empler, Victor Maximilian Hartl, Andrea Gatti, Silvia Sassi · 2026
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The Defense of Democracy Against Hybrid Threats

The “cognitive warfare” being waged against European liberal democracies is a reality. Illiberal political systems, although organized in different ways, are attempting to destabilize established democracies by undermining citizens’ trust in their institutions through what can be described as a genuine **“lukewarm war”**: not hot enough to trigger armed conflicts, yet not cold enough to...

Alessandro Sterpa · 2025

Research Areas

Four integrated pillars for a coherent and systematized multidisciplinary approach.

Right to Innovation

Technologies as an extension of social rights: balancing innovation, accessibility, and fundamental safeguards in the digital age.

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Disinformation and Democracy

Computational and constitutional analysis of digital disinformation phenomena and protection of the democratic quality of public space.

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Cyber-Warfare and Information Warfare

Convergence between cyber and information domains: cognitive security, hybrid strategies, and psychological operations.

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Innovation and Digital Freedom

Algorithmic governance, AI accountability, and pro-innovation regulatory models geared toward public and constitutionally compatible goals.

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