Edoardo Celeste, Prof. Dr.

Edoardo Celeste is an Associate Professor of Law, Technology and Innovation at the School of Law and Government of Dublin City University. He specialises in EU and comparative digital law, focusing in particular on digital rights and constitutionalism, privacy and data protection, social media governance, and digital sustainability.

In 2018, he joined Alexander von Humboldt Institut for Internet and Society as a Fellow in the research area Global Constitutionalism and the Internet. Edoardo is now the Programme Chair of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Law, Data and Artificial Intelligence (EMILDAI) and the coordinator of the DCU Law and Tech Research Cluster.

Edoardo is the author of the monographs “Digital Constitutionalism: The Role of Internet Bills of Rights” (Routledge 2022) and “The Content Governance Dilemma” (Palgrave 2023). He published his works in leading legal journals and edited the books “Data Protection Beyond Borders” (Hart 2021), “Constitutionalising Social Media” (Hart 2022) and “Data Protection and Digital Sovereignty Post-Brexit” (Hart 2023).

Edoardo holds a PhD from University College Dublin and previously studied law at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, at the University of Paris II “Panthéon-Assas”, and at King’s College London. Edoardo won the Irish Research Council Early Career Researcher of Year Award 2022.