Antonio Aloisi

Antonio Aloisi is an Assistant professor of European and Comparative Labour Law at IE University Law School, Madrid, where he is a member of the Lawtomation Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. His research focuses on the impacts of innovation on labour regulation and social institutions.

In 2020, he was awarded an EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship. The Boss Ex Machina project aims to map practices of automated decision-making and assess the adequacy of EU and national legal frameworks for enabling worker-centred workplaces.

Before joining IE University, Antonio was a Max Weber postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, and a visiting researcher at Saint Louis University, USA. He holds a PhD in Business and Social Law (2018) from Bocconi University, Milan.

Antonio regularly publishes research papers in major academic journals. He has co-authored Your Boss is an Algorithm. Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour (Hart Publishing 2022, with Valerio De Stefano), which provides a compass to navigate the era of radical advancements. His research has been cited by policy documents, case law and media reports.

He is currently involved in various projects on the sociolegal implications of algorithmic management, platform work, non-standard employment, remote work, and collective rights, commissioned by international institutions, national governments and research centres.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor, IE University – Madrid, Spain, 2019 – Present

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow, IE University – Madrid, Spain, 2020 – 2022

• Postdoctoral fellow, European University Institute – Florence, Italy, 2018 – 2019

• Teaching fellow, Bocconi University – Milan, Italy, 2017 – 2019

• Visiting researcher, Saint Louis University, Law School – St. Louis, MO, USA, 2016

• Member of the Cabinet Office, Ministry of Education – Rome, Italy, 2014 – 2016

• Trainee, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP – Milan, 2013 – 2014

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• PhD in Business and Social Law, Bocconi University – Milan, Italy, 2018

• Combined Bachelor and Master of Science in Law, Bocconi University – Milan, Italy, 2013

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Aloisi A. (2024), “Regulating algorithmic management at work in the EU: data protection, non-discrimination and collective rights”, International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 40(1)

• Aloisi A., De Stefano V. (2022), “Essential jobs, remote work and digital surveillance. Addressing the Covid19 pandemic panopticon”, International Labour Review, 161(2), 289 – 314

• Potocka-Sionek N., Aloisi A. (2021), “Festina Lente: the ILO and EU agendas on the digital transformation of work”, International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 37(1), 35 – 64

• Aloisi A., De Stefano V. (2020), “Regulation and the future of work. The employment relationship as an ‘innovation facilitator’”, International Labour Review, 159(1), 47 – 69

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