Cristina Poncibò

Cristina Poncibò is Full Professor of Comparative Private Law at the Law Department of the University of Turin, Italy and Affiliate at the Collegio Carlo Alberto. 

Cristina has been a Fellow of the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum at Stanford Law School during the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 academic years. In the 2022-2023 academic year, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of European and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Additionally, in the 2021-2022 academic year, she was a Faculty Member at the Georgetown Law Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) in London.

Her most recent publications include: Artificial Intelligence of AI and Consumers: Comparative Perspectives (Handbook Series, Cambridge University Press, 2024, with G. Howells, and L. Di Matteo). Artificial Intelligence: Global Perspectives on Law and Ethics (Handbook Series, Cambridge University Press, 2022, with L. Di Matteo and M. Cannarsa, eds); Contracting and Contract Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Hart, 2022, with M. Ebers and M. Zou, eds) and Smart Contracts, Blockchain Technology and Digital Platforms (Handbook Series, Cambridge University Press, 2019, with L. Matteo and M. Cannarsa, eds). 

Cristina is a member of the Italian Association of Comparative Law (SIRD) and Delegate of the Law Department (sponsor institution) to the American Association of Comparative Law. She is also a member of the Digital SIG of the European Law Institute (ELI), the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) and the Society for European Contract Law (SECOLA).  She regularly acts as a legal expert for European institutions EU agencies and IOs. 

Cristina is a graduate of the University of Turin (Bachelor and Master in EU Private Law), Cambridge (Mst in AI Ethics & Society) and Florence (PhD in Comparative Law) and was an associate in a UK law firm and an intern at the Italian Competition Authority. In her career, Cristina has also been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow from the European Commission for the two-years research project “EU Networks” at the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) and a Max Weber Fellow at the Law department of the European University Institute (EUI).

Cristina has been appointed as the Scientific Director of the Master in International Trade Law at the University of Turin, in collaboration with ITC-ILO, UNCITRAL, and UNIDROIT, since the 2024-2025 academic year. She has also served as the Scientific Director for the program during the academic years 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, and 2022-2023.