R. (Riccardo) Vecellio Segate, Dr

RECENT SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

R. Vecellio Segate, «Exposing, Reversing, and Inheriting Crimes as Traumas from the Neurosciences to Epigenetics: Why Criminal Law Cannot Yet Afford A(nother) Biology-induced Overhaul» (2024) 43(2) Criminal Justice Ethics 146–193, https://doi.org/10.1080/0731129X.2024.2376444

R. Vecellio Segate, «Drafting a Cybersecurity Standard for Outer Space Missions: On Critical Infrastructure, China, and the Indispensability of a Global Inclusive Approach» (2024) 11(3) Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs 345–375, https://doi.org/10.1177/23477970241261432

R. Vecellio Segate, «Gaza’s Young Adult Male Noncombatant as a Legitimised Target Under Patriarchal Laws of War: Probing the Routine Killing of Civilian Men Amid Feminist Abstention, Terrorism Ambiguities, and Genocidal Tensions» (2024) 10(2) The Italian Law Journal 387–450.

R. Vecellio Segate, «The “Medical Exception” to Emotion Detection Algorithms within the EU’s Forthcoming AI Act: Regulatory Implications for Therapeutical Smart Cobotics» (2024) IEEE RTSI (Research and Technologies for Society and Industry) Conference at Politecnico di Milano, https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSI61910.2024.10761570

R. Vecellio Segate, «Biometric Technology at the Borders of Citizenship: Identifying Technical Standards for Introducer-Based Remote Onboarding in Global Contexts of Statelessness, Nomadism, Displacement, and Refuge» (2024) 1(2) International Journal of Digital Law and Governance, https://doi.org/10.1515/ijdlg-2024-0010

T.C. Callari, R. Vecellio Segate, E.M. Hubbard, A. Daly, and N. Lohse, «An Ethical Framework for Human-Robot Collaboration for the Future People-Centric Manufacturing: A Collaborative Endeavour with European subject-matter experts in Ethics» (2024) 78 Technology in Society 102680, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2024.102680

R. Vecellio Segate, «Channeled Beneath International Law: Mapping Infrastructure and Regulatory Capture as Israeli–American Hegemonic Reinforcers in Palestine» (2023) 28(4) Communication Law and Policy 332–366, https://doi.org/10.1080/10811680.2024.2334081

R. Vecellio Segate, «Precedential value of judicial decisions in increasingly hybridised civil-law systems: Chinese choreographies at the WTO» (2024) 19(1) Asian Journal of Comparative Law 107–141, https://doi.org/10.1017/asjcl.2023.38

R. Vecellio Segate, «Neuroenhancement Patentability and the Boundaries Conundrum in Psychiatric Disorders: Comparative Regulatory Inquiries from China and the West» (2024) 11(1) European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance 42–103, https://doi.org/10.1163/22134514-bja10065  

R. Vecellio Segate and A. Daly, «Encoding the Enforcement of Safety Standards into Smart Robots to Harness Their Computing Sophistication and Collaborative Potential: A Legal Risk Assessment for European Union Policymakers» (2023) 15(3) European Journal of Risk Regulation 665–704, https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2023.72  

R. Vecellio Segate, «The Dis-Embedded Arbitrator: Releasing Arbitration from Corruption-Shaped Environments in the Wake of the Odebrecht Arbitral Ordeal in Peru» (2023) 12(4) Social Sciences 232, https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12040232

R. Vecellio Segate, «Resisting domestic courts’ universal jurisdiction over international crimes: Comparative notes on China and Italy», in P. K. Grzebyk (ed) International Crimes in National Regulations of Selected States (Wydawnictwo Instytutu Wymiaru Sprawiedliwości 2022) 245–273, https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/96777779/GRZEBYK_ZbrodnieMiedzynarodowe_EN_www_2_3_.pdf

R. Vecellio Segate, «The Distributive Surveillant Contract: Reforming “surveillance capitalism through taxation” into a legal teleology of global economic justice» (2022) Talent Program PhD Thesis in International Law at the Department of Global Legal Studies (Faculty of Law) of the University of Macau, https://library2.um.edu.mo/etheses/991010238079006306_ft.pdf

R. Vecellio Segate, «Horizontalizing insecurity, or securitizing privacy? Two narratives of a rule-of-law misalignment between a Special Administrative Region and its State» (2022) 10(1) The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law 56–89, https://doi.org/10.1093/cjcl/cxac002

R. Vecellio Segate, «Navigating Lawyering in the Age of Neuroscience: Why Lawyers Can No Longer Do Without Emotions (Nor Could They Ever)» (2022) 40(1) Nordic Journal of Human Rights 268–283, https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2022.2042989

R. Vecellio Segate, «Shifting Privacy Rights from the Individual to the Group: A Re-adaptation of Algorithms Regulation to Address the Gestaltian Configuration of Groups» (2022) 8(1) Loyola University Chicago Journal of Regulatory Compliance 55–114, https://www.compliancelawjournal.com/compliancelawjournal/issue_viii/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1793260#articleId1793260

R. Vecellio Segate, «Persecution and Labor Migrations Due to Corporate “Environmental” Exploitation: Waiting for the UNHRC’s Binding Treaty on Transnational Business Activities?» (2022) 18(1) Loyola University Chicago International Law Review 31–74, https://lawecommons.luc.edu/lucilr/vol18/iss1/3/

R. Vecellio Segate, «The first binding treaty on business and human rights: A deconstruction of the EU’s negotiating experience along the lines of institutional incoherence and legal theories» (2022) 26(1) The International Journal of Human Rights 122–159, https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2021.1895767

J. Loreto Ilhão Moreira and R. Vecellio Segate, «The “It” Arbitrator: Why Do Corporations Not Act as Arbitrators?» (2021) 12(4) Journal of International Dispute Settlement 525–557, https://doi.org/10.1093/jnlids/idab022

R. Vecellio Segate, «India’s Tiraṅgā at the confluence of postcolonial nationalism, cosmopolitan aspirations, and chromatic social cognition: “Saffronising” democracy?», in A. Wagner &  S. Marusek (eds) Flags, Color, and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory, Identity, and Critique (Springer 2021) 385–436, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32865-8_19

R. Vecellio Segate, «Cognitive Bias, Privacy Rights, and Digital Evidence in International Criminal Proceedings: Demystifying the Double-Edged AI Revolution» (2021) 21(2) International Criminal Law Review 242–279, https://doi.org/10.1163/15718123-bja10048

R. Vecellio Segate, «Hidden Hunger in Peacetime and Wartime: Retailoring the “Responsibility to Protect” to Food-Power Discourses in Burundi and North Korea, Between International Politics and International Law» (2021) 46(1) North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation 181–234, https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ncilj/vol46/iss1/5/

R. Vecellio Segate, «Protecting cultural heritage by recourse to international environmental law: Chinese stances on faultless state liability» (2021) 27(1) Hastings Environmental Law Journal 153–227, https://repository.uclawsf.edu/hastings_environmental_law_journal/vol27/iss1/5/

R. Vecellio Segate, «Litigating trade secrets in China: An imminent pivot to cybersecurity?» (2020) 15(8) Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 649–659, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpaa092

R. Vecellio Segate, «Securitizing Innovation to Protect Trade Secrets between “the East” and “the West”: A Neo-Schumpeterian Public Legal Reading» (2020) 37(1) UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal 59–126, http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/P8371048804

R. Vecellio Segate, «The Unified Patent Court and the frustrated promise of IP protection: Investors’ claims in (post-)Brexit Britain» (2020) 27(1) Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 75–104, https://doi.org/10.1177/1023263X19896917

R. Vecellio Segate, «Reconceptualising Musical Treasures in Italy, the EU and the World: The Functional Legacy of Performativity» (2019) 24(3) Art Antiquity and Law 199–222, https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/reconceptualising-musical-treasures-in-italy-the-eu-and-the-world

R. Vecellio Segate, «Fragmenting Cybersecurity Norms Through the Language(s) of Subalternity: India in “the East” and the Global Community» (2019) 32(2) Columbia Journal of Asian Law 78–138, https://doi.org/10.7916/cjal.v32i2.3371

KEY CONFERENCES 

Dr VECELLIO SEGATE has been invited to present his academic work at most of the world’s top scholarly conferences in public international law, commercial and investment arbitration, intellectual property law, East Asian comparative law, environmental law, EU law, cultural heritage protection, Middle Eastern geopolitics, artificial intelligence, human rights, human-machine interaction, technical standardisation, law & medicine, outer space law, bioethics, automation, IP law, and law & technology, including most recently {2015-2024: brief selection} at:

•    2nd International Conference on Decision Making in Medicine and Law (DMM&L 2024): “Opportunities and pitfalls of information technologies” at Universidade do Minho in Braga [November 2024]
•    3rd TraCe Annual Conference: “The Excessive Use of Force: Challenges in light of transformations of political violence” at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen [October 2024]
•    “Lawtomation Days: Computing the law, regulating the algorithm – the transformative power of digital ecosystems” at IE University in Madrid [September 2024]
•    IEEE RTSI 2024: “Research and Technologies for Society and Industry” at Politecnico di Milano [September 2024]
•    19th Annual Conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property Association: “Intellectual Property and the Future of the Data Economy” at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna [September 2024]
•    Workshop of the ESIL Interest Group on Migration and Refugee Law during the 19th ESIL Annual Conference on “Technological Change and International Law” at Vilnius University [September 2024]
•    3rd Groningen – Wharton PPE Workshop at the University of Groningen [September 2024]
•    SIRIUS Space Talks: “Sustainability for Space, Sustainability in Space, Sustainability from Space” at Université Toulouse Capitole [June 2024]
•    2nd Conference of Research in Entrepreneurship, Education and Technology (CREET) at University of Cagliari [May 2024]
•    “Comparative Visions in Space Law” Roma Tre Conference [February 2024]
•    “Business. Algorithm. Law.” International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity in Gdańsk [November 2023]
•    Secure documents and biometrics at #IdentityWeekAsia 2023 in Singapore [November 2023]
•    Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure for Identity Systems: The Alan Turing Institute’s “Trustworthy Digital Identity International Conference 2023” in Bangalore [September 2023]
•    8th Biennial Global Conference of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL): “International Economic Law in Times of Geo-Political Confrontation and Geo-Economic Fragmentation” [July 2023]
•    SPRITE+ (The Security, Privacy, Identity and Trust Engagement NetworkPlus) HUB Conference: “Security, Privacy, Identity, Trust in the Digital Economy” [June 2023]
•    2nd Annual Conference of the Scottish Law and Innovation Network (SCOTLIN): “Law and the Future: Managing the Increased Resort to Technology” [March 2023]
•    5th Annual Conference of the Intellectual Property and Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) Network [March 2023]
•    17th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) – Interest Group on International Law and Technology [August 2022]
•    Annual Conference of the American Society of Comparative Law – Younger Comparativists Committee [October 2021]
•    18th Annual Colloquium of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Academy of Environmental Law: “The Future of Environmental Law: Ambition and Reality” [June 2021]
•    “Penalization of International Crimes in National Law” Conference at the Polish Ministry of Justice’s Institute of Justice [June 2021]
•    iCourts Conference: “Transforming Evidence and Proof in International Criminal Trials” at the University of Copenhagen [April 2021]
•    1st Geneva Digital Law Research Colloquium Online [June 2020]
•    2nd Annual Conference of the Intellectual Property and Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) Network [February 2020]
•    4th Annual International Conference of the Asian Yearbook on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: “Law, Culture and Human Rights in Asia and the Middle East” [February 2020]
•    8th Conference of the Asian Privacy Scholars Network (APSN) [December 2019]
•    “Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Algorithms: Regulation, Governance, Markets” Conference [November 2019]
•    10th Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference [October 2019]
•    5th Jean Monnet Doctoral Workshop: “Bilateralism versus Multilateralism” [September 2019]
•    7th Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL): “Rethinking International Law: Finding Common Solutions to Contemporary Civilizational Issues from an Asian Perspective” [August 2019]
•    Asia Regional Convening of the Young Scholars Initiative of the Institute for New Economic Thinking [August 2019]
•    Research Forum of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) – Interest Group on Peace and Security [April 2019]
•    1st Conference of the Intellectual Property and Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) Network [February 2019]
•    3rd All Art and Cultural Heritage Law Conference: “National Treasures: Limits to Private Property and Cross-Border Movements” [November 2018]
•    Italian Society of International Law’s (SIDI-DIEMI) Conference: “Environmentally-induced Migration and Human Rights’ Protection: The point of view of International and European law” [November 2018]
•    Regional Conference of the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL): “International Law in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities” [October 2018]
•    Interdisciplinary Doctoral Symposium on “Democracy, Rule of Law and Human Rights in Europe and the World in Times of Contestation” [September 2018]
•    10th World Youth Forum: “Right to Dialogue: The Dilemma of Internet Governance” [October 2017]
•    11th “èStoria” International Festival of History and International Affairs [May 2015]