Riccardo Vecellio Segate

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Groningen

COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF ASIAN LAW ************* The global cybersecurity discourse has never proven more fragmented than in the aftermath of the failure of the last United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security. This discourse stands trapped in l...

Tensions between the EU’s legal order and the international investment law regime are not exclusive to the Brexit era, but they certainly gained momentum in the aftermath of this referendum. By incautiously declaring that the UK will remain a party to the Unified Patent System regardless of Brexit, the British government arguably shaped (il)legitim...

The international arbitrators’ service market is diverse, with arbitrators operating out of different structures, varying from multinational law firms to small arbitral boutiques. Yet, despite this heterogeneity, this market is dominated by individuals in the sense that legal persons are rarely, if ever, selected to act as arbitrators directly. Alb...

Until robots and humans mostly worked in fast-paced and yet separate environments, occupational health and safety (OHS) rules could address workers' safety largely independently from robotic conduct. This is no longer the case: collaborative robots (cobots) working alongside humans warrant the design of policies ensuring the safety of both humans a...

Pursuant to Article 63 of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), a state may require other treaty parties to disclose their intellectual property case law ‘of general application’. While most domestic judgments in common law are indeed of general application, civil law systems theoretically employ judgments...

This White Paper—intended for policymakers, regulators, and other key stakeholders, such as employers, trade unions—outlines key regulatory, governance, and ethics considerations surrounding smart robotic systems aimed at the manufacturing sector. Drawing on the interdisciplinary research conducted within the UKRI Made Smarter Innovation-Research C...

Unlike torture or slavery, war was never outlawed by international lawmakers. International humanitarian law, and the laws of war generally, have merely instituted minimal protection requirements for civilians, aligned with longstanding customs. Contemporary 'humanising' developments, fostered inter alia by feminist advocacy, have deepened the inte...

Despite limited progress within international institutions, the need for articulating a regulatory framework for cyber operations in outer space is becoming a pressing concern. One precondition for regulation is to share cybersecurity and outer-space common terminology that can inform the negotiation of standards, policies and laws. While the UN In...

Envisioning humans and (smart) robots collaboratively working on the manufacturing shop floor, sharing spaces, tasks and objectives, reflects the ambitious goal that the ideal factory of the future aspires to attain. However, ensuring the effective implementation of this novel form of labour organisation remains an ongoing area of research. Key asp...

In criminal proceedings, offenders are sentenced based on doctrines of culpability and punishment that theorize why they are guilty and why they should be punished. Throughout human history, these doctrines have largely been grounded in legal-policy constructions around retribution, safety, deterrence, and closure, mostly derived from folk psycholo...

All throughout the so-called “Global South”, hundreds of millions of individuals from entire communities in the rural, poorer, or most peripheral areas are not officially recorded by the States they are citizens of or they habitually reside in. This is why several of such States are resorting to extensive and purportedly “universal” digital remote...

The United States is the most influential actor in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; its intelligence agencies cooperate with Israel on most "counterterrorism" dossiers impacting Palestinians' life, with a significant number thereof pertaining to Internet policing in Gaza and the West Bank. Meanwhile, Israel controls some of the key Internet servic...

Patent offices worldwide deny patentability to innovations which stand against the ordre public: does enhancement represent a value-laden societal threat? Patent offices also reject applications for therapeutical methods: when is enhancement also a therapeutical method? One specific class of enhancers, i.e. pharmaceutical neuroenhancers, is particu...

Despite local instances of single arbitrators' corruption not having proven completely absent from arbitration chronicles over the last decades, one may safely argue that until very recently, no scandal had ever been severe enough to shake the foundations of arbitration communities on a regional, let alone global, level. However, this eventually oc...

The prosecution of international crimes by specialised non-domestic courts and tribunals raises several concerns, not least in evidentiary assessments; thus, the future of international criminal justice shall be relocated to domestic trials by reliance on universal jurisdiction (“UJ”). While a few “Western” jurisdictions have recently started to em...

Algorithms may seriously impair the right to privacy held by groups of individuals (and thus, more subtly, individuals themselves, but relationally). Indeed, a functional equivalence exists between the way personal data is gathered and aggregated, and the patterns of data analysis about groups of individuals, with the difference that whilst the fir...

BOOK REVIEW ------- Research Handbook on Law and Emotion, edited by Susan A. Bandes, Jody Lyneé Madeira, Kathryn D. Temple, and Emily Kidd White, Edward Elgar, 2021, 640 pp, £48.00 (e-book), £225.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-78811-907-8; The Emotional Brain and the Guilty Mind: Novel Paradigms of Culpability and Punishment, by Federica Coppola, Hart,...

Policy debates on the rights and international status of climate refugees, environmental migrants, or environmentally displaced persons have unleashed detailed scholarly commentaries over the last decade, and virtually all standpoints have been scrutinized in literature already. Nevertheless, one aspect of this debate has gone somewhat off the rada...

Data protection is generally surmised as antithetical to State surveillance and regulatory intrusiveness into the measures that businesses adopt to ensure the security of personal data. This originates in an ancient, West-rooted understanding of the ‘rule of law’ as the ultimate shield of ‘the private’ sphere against ‘the public’ sovereign power. T...

V. Cuzzocrea, B. G. Bello, & Y. Kazepov (eds.) (2020). Italian Youth in International Context: Belonging, Constraints and Opportunities. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge. xiii + 244 pp., £120 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-138-48857-1.

The tricoloured flag India adopted in 1947 to mark its independence from Britain, the Tiraṅgā, results in fact from the combination of four elements whose official and popular semiotics has traversed several waves of negotiations during the decades preceding the foundation of contemporary India. Three of these elements are its equally sized, horizo...

International criminal tribunals (ICTs) have found, almost consistently, that unlawfully and/or secretly obtained evidence is admissible. De facto, defendants in international criminal law (ICL) enjoy no privacy-related procedural safeguards under either the applicable domestic law or international human rights law (IHRL). Privacy violations are no...

When the UN Human Rights Council initiated negotiations towards the first international legally binding instrument for the accountability of transnational business activities, EU Member States opposed it, and EU institutions themselves endeavoured to obstruct it by making it conditional upon the widening of its scope, as to cover all domestic compa...

The framework known as 'Responsibility to Protect' ("R2P") has afforded legal endorsement and codification to the doctrine that States hold responsibility under public international law for the protection of their own citizens and of those who reside within their prescriptive jurisdiction. This holds true in peacetime and wartime alike, and it is s...

Several international policy documents define the environment as made of “natural heritage” and “cultural heritage” together, along the lines of concepts such as “biosphere” or “ecosystem” which have been introduced relatively recently to define the complexity of human-environment interactions. Nevertheless, distinguishing natural heritage from the...

I. Introduction The globalization of supply chains and digitization of corporate processes have resulted in both advantages and disadvantages for trade secrets management. Most trade secrets today are stored in digital environments, readily transferable through the cyberspace, and accessed remotely (including possibly overseas) by the relevant empl...

The first target of today’s global commercial and military espionage, trade secrets, are the only form of intellectual property protection to be based on the necessity of nondisclosure and secrecy rather than on the paradigm of publicity and exploitability, with the obvious consequence that where confidentiality ends, no trade secret factually exis...

Musical instruments occupy a unique place in the cultural heritage constellation, and yet, neither scholarly literature nor legislative texts take account of this unique status. In particular, movable instruments are considered as a- stand-alone category for export purposes, whereas a fairer approach would call into consideration their performative...

The ultimate aim of this article is to analyse the role of the rising and already-existent regional courts in adjudicating terrorism as it appears in the Public International Law against the wider framework of global counter-terrorism struggle, with a special focus on the emerging category of cybercrimes/cyberterrorism, all exceptionally challengin...

The ultimate aim of this article is to analyse the role of the rising and already-existent regional courts in adjudicating terrorism as it appears in the Public International Law against the wider framework of global counter-terrorism struggle, with a special focus on the emerging category of cybercrimes/cyberterrorism, all exceptionally challengin...

This paper is aimed at providing a concise historically-informed as well as theoretically-updated account of the “state of the art” regarding the European Court of Human Rights’ understanding of torture, drawing on both the preventive measures adopted by the Council of Europe and the judgemental criteria established via the massive jurisprudence of...

This paper discusses the effect of the constitutionalisation of the EU’s legal framework on European integration. The first section deals with the evolution of the Treaties as a pathway towards increasing legal integration. The second section discusses the EU’s evolving constitutional doctrine. The remaining sections provide supportive evidence to...

This article aims to critically examine the International Criminal Court, established in 2002 to complement domestic jurisdiction in prosecuting the gravest crimes (was crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and – most recently – crimes of aggression), in a multidimensional manner, assessing its place in relation to public international law, in...