Edoardo Celeste
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.
Edoardo is the Programme Chair of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Law, Data and Artificial Intelligence (EMILDAI), the Deputy-Director of the DCU Law Research Centre, the coordinator of the DCU Law and Tech Research Cluster, and a founding member of the Digital Constitutionalism Network.
Edoardo has been involved in numerous competitively-won research projects securing funding both by public and private institutions. He was the principal investigator of the project 'Cross-Border Data Protection Network' funded by the Irish Research Council and the UK Economic and Social Research Council, and of the project 'Digital Constitutionalism: In Search of a Content Governance Standard' funded by Facebook Research.
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 is a member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Law and Technology (EJLT) and of the Executive Committee of the British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association (BILETA). He is currently affiliated with the ADAPT Centre and the UCD Centre for Human Rights, and he is a member of the Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee of the Royal Irish Academy.
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.
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PhD supervision: Edoardo welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students wishing to pursue research in the field of digital rights (including but not limited to privacy and data protection), digital sovereignty, online platforms regulation and digital sustainability.
Book
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2023 | Edoardo Celeste; Nicola Palladino; Dennis Redeker; Kinfe Yilma (2023) The Content Governance Dilemma: Digital Constitutionalism, Social Media and the Search for a Global Standard. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Celeste, E. (2022) Digital constitutionalism: The role of internet bills of rights. [Link] [DOI] |
Edited Book
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2023 | Edoardo Celeste, Roisin Costello, Edina Harbinja, Napoleon Xanthoulis (Ed.). (2023) Data Protection and Digital Sovereignty Post-Brexit. Oxford: Hart, [Link] | |
| 2022 | Edoardo Celeste, Amélie Heldt and Clara Iglesias Keller (Ed.). (2022) Constitutionalising Social Media. Oxford: Hart, [Link] | |
| 2021 | Federico Fabbrini, Edoardo Celeste and John Quinn (Ed.). (2021) Data Protection Beyond Borders: Transatlantic Perspectives on Extraterritoriality and Sovereignty. Oxford: Hart, [Link] |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2024 | Edoardo Celeste, Dennis Redeker and Mauro Santaniello (2024) 'Anchoring Digital Rights: Digital Constitutionalism in Hard Times' In: Global Communication Governance at the Crossroads. Cham : Springer. [Link] | |
| 2023 | Edoardo Celeste (2023) 'Brexit and the Risks of Digital Sovereignism' In: Data Protection and Digital Sovereignty Post-Brexit. Oxford : Hart. [Link] | |
| 2023 | Edoardo Celeste, Róisín Á Costello, Edina Harbinja, Napoleon Xanthoulis (2023) 'Data Protection and Digital Sovereignty Post-Brexit: An Introduction' In: Data Protection and Digital Sovereignty Post-Brexit. Oxford : Hart. [Link] | |
| 2023 | Edoardo Celeste (2023) 'Digital Constitutionalism: How Fundamental Rights Are Turning Digital' In: A Inteligência Artificial a (De)serviço do Estado de Direito. Belo Horizonte : RTM. [Link] | |
| 2022 | Edoardo Celeste (2022) 'Constitution, Liberté et Numérique: Irlande' In: Annuaire International de Justice Constitutionnelle, XXXVII-2021. Paris-Aix en Provence : Economica-Presses universitaires d'Aix-Marseille. [Link] | |
| 2022 | Edoardo Celeste, Amélie Heldt and Clara Iglesias Keller (2022) 'Introduction' In: Constitutionalising Social Media. Oxford : Hart. [Link] | |
| 2022 | Edoardo Celeste (2022) 'The Constitutionalisation of the Digital Ecosystem: Lessons from International Law' In: International Law and the Internet. Baden-Baden : Nomos. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Edoardo Celeste, Nicola Palladino, Dennis Redeker, Kinfe Yilma (2022) 'Digital Constitutionalism: In Search of a Content Governance Standard' In: Constitutionalising Social Media. Oxford : Hart. [Link] | |
| 2021 | Edoardo Celeste (2021) 'Data Protection' In: The Law & Politics of Brexit: Volume III: The Framework of New EU-UK Relations. Oxford : Oxford University Press. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Edoardo Celeste (2021) 'Digital Sovereignty in the EU: Challenges and Future Perspectives' In: Data Protection Beyond Borders: Transatlantic Perspectives on Extraterritoriality and Sovereignty. Oxford : Hart Publishing. [Link] | |
| 2021 | Federico Fabbrini and Edoardo Celeste (2021) 'EU Data Protection Law between Sovereignty and Extraterritoriality' In: Data Protection Beyond Borders: Transatlantic Perspectives and Extraterritoriality and Sovereignty. Oxford : Hart Publishing. [Link] | |
| 2021 | Federico Fabbrini, Edoardo Celeste & John Quinn (2021) 'Introduction' In: Data Protection Beyond Borders: Transatlantic Perspectives on Extraterritoriality and Sovereignty. Oxford : Hart Publishing. [Link] | |
| 2020 | Edoardo Celeste and Federico Fabbrini (2020) 'Competing Jurisdictions: Data Privacy Across the Borders' In: Grace Fox, Theo Lynn and Lisa van der Werff (eds), Data Privacy and Trust in Cloud Computing. London : Palgrave. [Link] | |
| 2020 | Edoardo Celeste and Federico Fabbrini (2020) 'Targeted Surveillance: Can Privacy and Surveillance Be Reconciled?' In: 20 years anniversary of the Tampere Programme: Europeanisation dynamics of the EU area of freedom, security and justice. Florence : European University Institute. [Link] [DOI] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2024 | Edoardo Celeste and Giulia Formici (2024) 'Constitutionalizing Mass Surveillance in the EU: Civil Society Demands, Judicial Activism and Legislative Inertia'. German Law Journal, 25 (3). [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2023 | Edoardo Celeste and Abhilash Nair (2023) 'Protecting the Vulnerable: from E-Administration to AI Liability'. European Journal of Law and Technology, 14 (3). [Link] | |
| 2023 | Edoardo Celeste; Giovanni De Gregorio (2023) 'Towards a Right to Digital Education? Constitutional Challenges of Edtech'. JIPITEC – Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and E-Commerce Law, 14 (2). [Link] | |
| 2022 | Petra Bago; Sheila Castilho; Edoardo Celeste; Jane Dunne; Federico Gaspari; Níels Rúnar Gíslason; Andre Kåsen; Filip Klubička; Gauti Kristmannsson; Helen McHugh; Róisín Moran; Órla Ní Loinsigh; Jon Arild Olsen; Carla Parra Escartín; Akshai Ramesh; Natalia Resende; Páraic Sheridan; Andy Way (2022) 'Sharing high-quality language resources in the legal domain to develop neural machine translation for under-resourced European languages'. Revista de Llengua i Dret (Journal of Language and Law), 78 :9-34. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Edoardo Celeste; Sorcha Montgomery; Arthit Suriyawongkul (2022) 'Digital technology and privacy attitudes in times of COVID-19: formal legality versus legal reality in Ireland'. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 73 (2):283-309. [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Edoardo Celeste (2022) 'Costituzionalismo digitale e piattaforme: verso una costituzionalizzazione della lex digitalis'. ComunicazionePuntoDoc, 25 :105-118. [Link] | |
| 2022 | Edoardo Celeste and Giovanni De Gregorio (2022) 'Digital Humanism: The Constitutional Message of the GDPR'. Global Privacy Law Review, 33 (1):4-18. [Link] | |
| 2022 | Edoardo Celeste (2022) 'Book Review: Judicial Protection of Fundamental Rights on the Internet: A Road Towards Digital Constitutionalism?, by Oreste Pollicino'. European Law Review, 47 :141-144. [Link] | |
| 2021 | Edoardo Celeste and Paulo Rená da Silva Santarém (tr) (2021) 'Constitucionalismo Digital. Mapeando a resposta constitucional aos desafios da tecnologia digital'. Revista Brasileira De Direitos Fundamentais & Justiça, 15 (45):63-91. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Edoardo Celeste (2021) 'Digital punishment: social media exclusion and the constitutionalising role of national courts'. International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, 35 (2):162-184. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Trestian, Ramona; Xie, Guodong; Lohar, Pintu; Celeste, Edoardo; Bendechache, Malika; Brennan, Rob; Jayasekera, Evgeniia; Connolly, Regina; Tal, Irina (2021) 'Privacy in a Time of COVID-19: How Concerned Are You?'. IEEE SECURITY & PRIVACY, 19 (5). [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Bendechache, Malika; Lohar, Pintu; Xie, Guodong; Brennan, Rob; Trestian, Ramona; Celeste, Edoardo; Kapanova, Kristina; Jayasekera, Evgeniia; Tal, Irina (2021) 'Public attitudes towards privacy in COVID-19 times in the Republic of Ireland: A pilot study'. Information Security Journal, 30 (5). [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Edoardo Celeste and Nina Shengelia (2021) 'Editorial - Regulating Online Disinformation: Comparative Perspectives'. International Journal of Social Science, 15 (1). [Link] | |
| 2020 | Edoardo Celeste (2020) 'Social media and politics: the legal value of a tweet'. MediaLaws, (1):188-193. [Link] | |
| 2020 | Edoardo Celeste and Stefano Rossa (2020) 'A colpi di tweet: social network, pubblica amministrazione e politica'. Istituzioni del Federalismo, XLI (1):121-154. [Link] | |
| 2020 | Fabbrini, F.; Celeste, E. (2020) 'The Right to Be Forgotten in the Digital Age: The Challenges of Data Protection Beyond Borders'. German Law Journal, 21 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Edoardo Celeste (2020) 'Book Review: Digital Lifeline: ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons, edited by Carleen Maitland'. European Data Protection Law Review, 28 (1):85-92. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Celeste E. (2019) 'Digital constitutionalism: a new systematic theorisation'. International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, 33 (1):76-99. [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Celeste E. (2019) 'The court of justice and the ban on bulk data retention: Expansive potential and future scenarios'. European Constitutional Law Review, 15 (1):134-157. [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Celeste E. (2018) 'Terms of service and bills of rights: new mechanisms of constitutionalisation in the social media environment?'. International Review of Law, Computers and Technology, 33 (2):122-138. [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Edoardo Celeste (2018) 'Book review: The Governance of EU Fundamental Rights, by Mark Dawson'. European Data Protection Law Review, 4 (4):409-411. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Edoardo Celeste (2018) 'Book Review: Human Rights Futures, edited by Stephen Hopgood, Jack Snyder, and Leslie Vinjamur'. European Data Protection Law Review, 4 (1):135-139. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Edoardo Celeste (2017) 'Wi-fi gratuito e responsabilità degli intermediari. Ancora alla ricerca di un ‘‘giusto equilibrio’’'. La Nuova Giurisprudenza Civile Commentata, XXIII (17):1595-1603. [Link] |
Other Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2020 | Edoardo Celeste (2020) 'Contemporary Challenges of Social Media and Digital Constitutionalism (Interview by Nina Shengelia)' . [Link] |
Conference Publication
Blog
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2023 | Edoardo Celeste (2023) Covid-19 and Digital Technology: Transatlantic Perspectives on Constitutionalism and Federalism. BLOG [Link] | |
| 2023 | Edoardo Celeste (2023) Targeted ads and Meta’s fine: lessons for consent and data protection literacy. BLOG [Link] | |
| 2023 | Sorcha Montgomery; Edoardo Celeste (2023) COVID-19 and Digital Technology Risks: A Legal Analysis of Irish Privacy Attitudes. BLOG [Link] | |
| 2022 | Edoardo Celeste (2022) Towards a Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework. BLOG [Link] | |
| 2022 | Edoardo Celeste (2022) Towards a European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles: Guidelines for the Digital Decade. BLOG [Link] | |
| 2021 | Edoardo Celeste (2021) Are mandatory Covid vaccinations a breach of human rights?. BLOG [Link] | |
| 2021 | Edoardo Celeste (2021) From the UK adequacy decision to Big Brother Watch: Increasingly divergent approaches to mass surveillance in Europe. BLOG [Link] | |
| 2021 | Edoardo Celeste (2021) Commission v. Spain and H. K. v. Prokuratuur: Taking the Plank out of EU’s Own Eye. BLOG [Link] | |
| 2021 | Edoardo Celeste (2021) Social media bans: what platforms can learn from national courts. BLOG [Link] | |
| 2021 | Edoardo Celeste (2021) Trump's social media ban: Reviewing the constitutionality of capital digital punishment. Hamburg: BLOG [Link] | |
| 2021 | Edoardo Celeste (2021) Cross-Border Data Protection After Brexit. BLOG [Link] | |
| 2021 | Edoardo Celeste (2021) Digital Constitutionalism: How Fundamental Rights are Turning Digital. BLOG [Link] |
Working Paper
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Edoardo Celeste (2021) The Constitutionalisation of the Digital Ecosystem: Lessons from International Law. WP [Link] | |
| 2021 | Edoardo Celeste (2021) Cross-Border Data Protection After Brexit. WP [Link] | |
| 2018 | Edoardo Celeste (2018) Digital Constitutionalism: Mapping the Constitutional Response to Digital Technology's Challenges. WP [Link] http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3219905 |
Podcast
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Edoardo Celeste (2021) Digital Constitutionalism: Understanding a Contemporary (R)evolution. PODCAST [Link] |
Translation
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Edoardo Celeste, Claudia Padovani, Mauro Santaniello (2021) Carta dei diritti umani e dei principi per Internet. TR [Link] |
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