Chiara Toscano is a first-year Ph.D. candidate in Private Autonomy Business, Labour and Protection of Rights In European and International Perspective at the Department of Legal Studies, Sapienza University of Rome (41st cycle).
Her research interests focus on comparative labour law, the impact of artificial intelligence in employment contexts, contract certification, occupational health and safety, gender equality and inclusion policies, as well as the intersections between law, technology, and corporate social responsibility.
She earned her Master’s Degree in Law from Bocconi University in Milan on December 15, 2022, defending a thesis in Comparative Private Law entitled The Right to Exploit the Image of Celebrities, supervised by Professor Pietro Sirena. In 2022 she attended the international course Responsible AI, Law, Ethics & Society, jointly organised by Bocconi University, Boston University, the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and Tel Aviv University.
She graduated with honours from the Classical High School “Maria Ausiliatrice” in Rome, completing her studies in four years due to academic merit.
In July 2025, she completed a research assignment at the Department of Economics of Roma Tre University on the topic Labour in Procurement and Supply Chains: The Function of Contract Certification, where she explored the legal and organisational dimensions of compliance in complex production systems. She also collaborated with the Interuniversity Centre LabChain on Blockchain, Innovation and Labour Policies, focusing on the potential of digital technologies in certifying working conditions.
Her publications include The Prohibition on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems for the Inference of Emotional States in Workplaces in Light of the European Commission Guidelines on the AI Act, published in Federalismi.it (2025), dedicated to the analysis of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689. She is the author of the case note Company Practice of Non-Absorbability of Wage Supplements and Its Termination Procedures, published in IUS Lavoro (Giuffrè, 2025), and of the commentary Beyond Formal Compliance: The Supreme Court on the Employer’s Preventive Liability in Cassazione Penale (2025). She has also written research papers for the Istituto per la Competitività (I-Com) on sustainable finance and European regulations on the green economy.
She has carried out teaching activities at Roma Tre University as a Teaching Assistant for the courses Labour Law and Digitalisation of the Labour Market, Labour Law and Human Resource Development, and Labour Law and Welfare. She has also lectured at the IUL Online University on occupational health and safety, welfare and bilateralism, and the commercial employment contract, and has taught trade union law at the ELIS Training Centre within the European project THAMM+ (Towards a Holistic Approach to Labour Migration Governance and Labour Mobility).
She has participated in research projects carried out in partnership with the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policies on monitoring and analysing temporary agency work, contributing to the drafting of annual and quarterly reports produced by the Roma Tre University research group. She has collaborated with several observatories promoted by LabChain, including the Tourism Labour Market Observatory and the Ebitemp Observatory on agency work, and has contributed to the design of a Women’s Labour Observatory aimed at promoting pay transparency and gender equality in employment.
She has been part of the organising committees of academic conferences held at Roma Tre University, including Due Diligence and Occupational Safety in the Supply Chain, The Transformation of Work: Discontinuities and Interdependencies, ESG, Business and Human Rights, and EU Regulation 2024/1689: Artificial Intelligence and Labour Law. She took part in the 2025 AIDLaSS National Congress in Ancona, in the Macerata Seminars on Labour and Social Security Law, and in the international conference The Due Diligence Directive and Human Rights at Work after the Omnibus Proposal held at the University of Salamanca.
In 2025, she received the “Donna Amelia Cortese Ardias” Award, granted by the Luigi Einaudi Study Centre under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, for her essay In Praise of Entropy in a Universe of Organicisms. Her paper Freedom and Its Dilemmas: The Intrinsic Limit of Unlimited Liberty was shortlisted for the Gerald Gaus Prize of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society. She is listed in the National Register of Excellence and among Italian graduates with full marks and honours.
She is fluent in English (C1 level, IELTS 8.0).