Institutional appointments: Caterina Sganga, full professor of Comparative Private Law, is the new director of the Dirpolis Institute (Law, Politics, Development) at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa
Caterina Sganga is the new director of the Dirpolis Institute (Law, Politics, Development) at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa. She succeeds Professor Gaetana Morgante and will remain in office for three years, from July 28, 2025, to July 27, 2028.
Caterina Sganga has received best wishes and congratulations from the entire academic community of the School.
"I am honored by the trust that our community has placed in me. After years of growth and consolidation, the Dirpolis Institute—one of the largest at the School and characterized by a strong interdisciplinary approach—faces important challenges and a strong need for renewal capable of unleashing all the energy, scientific resources, and social commitment that we can and must make available to the country and the international community. My time, commitment, and expertise will be dedicated to making this process possible, with everyone's contribution, over the next three years," said Caterina Sganga.
Caterina Sganga has been full professor of comparative private law since 2024. She entered the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies as a honour student, obtaining a bachelor's degree (2004) and a master's degree (2006) in law from the University of Pisa. After a Master of Laws (LLM) at Yale Law School in 2009, she obtained her PhD in Law at the Sant'Anna School in 2011, before beginning her academic career at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest/Vienna, where she was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Law from 2012 to 2018.
Her main area of research is comparative intellectual property (IP) law, with a focus on European copyright law, the relationship between IP and new technologies, the balance between IP and fundamental rights, and the law and economics of cultural and creative industries. Recently, her work has focused on issues of data ownership and governance, particularly non-personal data, and the law and policies of Open Science.
Sganga is President of the European Policy for Intellectual Property Association (EPIP), the leading scientific society of IP scholars in the fields of law, economics, and management, and a member of its Board of Directors since 2022. In May 2021, she was elected as the Italian representative to the European Copyright Society (ECS), one of the most prestigious academic associations in the field of copyright law. She is also a fellow of the European Law Institute (ELI), as well as a member of ATRIP (International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property) and ALPS (Association for Law, Property and Society).
