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Thesis title
'Regulating the environmental impact of the European Cloud'
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Research interests/areas
International Environmental Law, European Environmental Law, Corporate Law, Corporate Social Responsibility, Law and Technology, Artificial Intelligence Ethics, AI and Law, Geoengineering, Law and Society, Circular Economy, Infrastructure Studies, Critical Data Studies
Arianna Crosera is a Ph.D. researcher at the European University Institute, where she is supervised by Professor Emeritus Peter Drahos, and a visiting researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where her advisor is Professor Veerle Heyvaert.
Her research focuses on the intersection between the digital and the green transitions, and explores how the European Union regulates Cloud computing, and more specifically, data-centres from an environmental perspective. The research aims at a better understanding of what challenges derive from regulating data-centres in environmental law, and how the current regulatory framework for data-centres in EU environmental law is structured. For her thesis, she has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Netherlands, Ireland and Brussels, interviewing civil society, regulators and businesses involved in data-centre regulation.
Arianna holds an LLB from the University of Trento (Italy) in Comparative, European and International Legal Studies, and a Joint LLM in Environmental Law from the University of Uppsala, the University of Eastern Finland, and the Arctic University of Norway (NOMPEL Programme).
Affiliations / Memberships
Visiting Researcher at LSE
PhD Researcher at European University Institute
Coordinator of the Information Society Working Group at European University Institute
Awards / Scholarships
Italian Department of Foreign Affairs EUI Grant (2022-2026)
Early Stage Researcher EUI Grant (2023)