Of Counsel

Salvatore Orlando

Salvatore is a full professor of private law at the Department of Law and Economics of Productive Activities of the Faculty of Economics at La Sapienza University in Rome. He is an expert in litigation and arbitration, commercial contracts and new digital technologies. He is qualified to practice before the Supreme Court of Cassation and the High Courts

After graduating in law from Luiss Guido Carli University, he received a doctorate in private law from the University Federico II of Naples. Subsequently, he was a researcher in private law at the Faculty of Economics, La Sapienza University. He was a recipient of a European Commission scholarship for university researchers, at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin.

Salvatore has specific expertise in legal issues related to new digital technologies.

He is director of the Legal Observatory on Digital Innovation (OGID) at the Department of Law and Economics of Productive Activities at La Sapienza University of Rome (Faculty of Economics).

His publications focus mainly on contract law and new technology law. For more than 10 years he has been a regular contributor to the Italian section of the European National News column of the Computer Law and Security Review, which specializes in the legal issues of new technologies, and he is the editor of the Law and New Technologies column of the Italian journal Persona e Mercato.

Prior to joining Ughi and Nunziante, Salvatore was a partner at a leading Italian law, firm for several years.