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Marco Giacalone

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Marco Giacalone

Research Professor

  • Private and Economic Law
  • Digitalisation and access to justice
  • postdoctoral researcher , Private and Economic Law

Pleinlaan 2

1050 Brussels

  • 18 Citations Source: Scopus
  • 2 h-index Calculated based on number of publications stored in Pure and citations from Scopus

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Marco is a Research Professor at the Private and Economic Law Department (PREC) and Co-Director of the Research Group on Digitalisation and Access to Justice (DIKE ) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He has been involved in several collaborative research projects (co-) funded by the European Union. His work analyses the transformations of law in the field of Access to Justice with a particular focus on the fields of Private International Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), EU regulations and the application of economic principles into the field of law. His research combines approaches from legal theory, empirical legal studies, and science and technology studies. He earned a PhD in law ( Doctor Europaeus , 2016) from VUB and Naples' University Federico II with a thesis on Dispute Resolution and New IT Realities.

External positions

Adjunct Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

26 Aug 2019 → 31 Dec 2019

21 Aug 2018 → 31 Dec 2018

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  • Dispute resolution Social Sciences 100%
  • European Union Engineering & Materials Science 95%
  • Belgium Social Sciences 63%
  • Italy Social Sciences 52%
  • Deep learning Engineering & Materials Science 51%
  • digitalization Social Sciences 48%
  • civil disputes Social Sciences 46%
  • Commercial Disputes Social Sciences 46%

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Projects per year

OZR4193: Bilateral cooperation within the framework of a joint doctoral project: benchfee for joint PhD VUB - UNIPARTHENOPE (Italy); ARNONE Gioia

Giacalone, M.

1/10/23 → 30/09/27

Project : Fundamental

EU644: Conflict Resolution with Equitative Algorithms 2

Alofs, E. , Giacalone, M. & Salehi, S. S.

1/06/21 → 31/05/24

  • Negotiating 100%
  • Artificial intelligence 72%
  • Costs and Cost Analysis 51%
  • Blockchain 32%
  • User interfaces 24%

EU676: Digitalising European Uncontested Claims Enforcement

1/04/24 → 31/03/26

  • Enforcement 100%
  • Roadmap 20%
  • Consortium 14%
  • Private Law 11%
  • Needs Assessment 9%

BRGCON36: IPSU 2022: Digital Ius Knowledge Empowerment

Van Der Borght, K. , Giacalone, M. & Salehi, S. S.

1/09/22 → 1/11/22

Project : Policy Based

  • Power (Psychology) 100%
  • Predictive analytics 23%
  • Text mining 20%
  • Transparency 18%
  • Decision support systems 18%

EU643: Small Claims Analysis Net II

1/03/22 → 29/02/24

  • Insurance Claim Review 100%
  • Enforcement 78%
  • Occupational Groups 50%
  • Costs and Cost Analysis 43%
  • Roadmap 17%

Research output

  • 18 Citations
  • 3 Commissioned report
  • 1 Conference paper
  • 1 Other scientific journal contribution

Research output per year

An Intelligent Conversational Agent for the Legal Domain

Research output : Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Information retrieval systems 100%
  • Intelligent agents 96%
  • European Union 93%
  • Websites 71%
  • Semantics 56%

An Intelligent Interface for Human-Computer Interaction in Legal Domain

Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Human computer interaction 100%
  • Marketing 48%
  • Artificial intelligence 43%

Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms in Family (Patrimonial) Law

Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Specialist › peer-review

Small Claims, Digitalisation, and EU Market

Research output : Book/Report › Book › Research

  • digitalization 100%
  • Regulatory framework 65%
  • Dispute resolution 50%

An Empirical Study on Mediation in Civil and Commercial Disputes in Europe: The Mediation Service Providers Perspective

  • civil disputes 100%
  • Commercial Disputes 99%
  • service provider 56%
  • mediation 51%
  • future perspective 19%

Best paper award

Giacalone, Marco (Recipient), 2019

Prize : Prize (including medals and awards)

  • Grid computing 100%
  • Parallel processing systems 87%
  • Cloud computing 75%
  • Internet 58%

H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie, Individual Fellowship 2019

Giacalone, Marco (Recipient), 4 Feb 2020

Prize : Fellowship awarded competitively

  • 10 Talk or presentation at a conference
  • 6 Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
  • 4 Participating in or organizing a public lecture/debate
  • 4 Participating in or organizing an event at an external academic organisation
  • 2 Participation in workshop, seminar
  • 2 Written proposal
  • 2 Talk at a public lecture/debate
  • 1 Participation in conference
  • 1 Participating in or organizing a school event
  • 1 Membership of external research organisation
  • 1 Talk at an external academic organisation

Activities per year

Final conference SCAN2 project

Marco Giacalone (Chair), Kim Van Der Borght (Organiser) & Jachin Van Doninck (Organiser)

Activity : Participating in or organising an event › Participating in or organizing an event at an external academic organisation

CREA2: Generative AI as a digital journey

Marco Giacalone (Speaker)

Activity : Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference

il diritto dell'innovazione tecnologica. International Jam session among legal experts

Digitizing justice and empowering legal excellence.

Marco Giacalone (Chair) & Paola Giacalone (Advisor)

Activity : Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar

Marco Giacalone (Advisor) & Paola Giacalone (Advisor)

Activity : Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference

Dispute Resolution and New IT Realities

Supervisor: Gonzalez Fuster, G. (Jury), Winkler, M. (External person) (Jury), Moretti, S. (External person) (Jury) & Gambino, F. (External person) (Jury)

Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis

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  1. Regulations

    An overview of all regulations at VUB: The teaching and examination regulations, each faculty's additions, regulations for PhD, student life, campus life, etc. ... PhD regulations and forms. For PhD students there are also central regulations with additions from each individual faculty.

  2. PDF Teaching and Examination Regulations 2016-2017

    For doctoral programmes and the attainment of a PhD, specific regulations, approved by the Academic Council, apply. For inter-university programmes, provisions other than those set out in these regulations may apply, provided they do not violate the relevant decrees. Chapter II. - Abbreviations and definitions Article 2 (Abbreviations)

  3. PDF Teaching and Examination Regulations 2019-2020

    For doctoral programmes and the attainment of a PhD, specific regulations, approved by the Academic Council, apply. For inter-university programmes, provisions other than those set out in these regulations may apply, provided they do not violate the relevant decrees. Chapter II. - Abbreviations and definitions Article 2 (Abbreviations)

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  5. Forms and regulations

    Forms and Procedures. Form Graduation after 1st semester. Information for VUB-students VUB in interuniversity programme UGent. Application form for exemptions. Procedure. File exemption appplication. Declaration of Travel Costs. Request exceptional circumstances study progress.

  6. Register for your PhD: doctoral application

    Study fee. • Doctoral students pay € 545,80 in the first year of enrolment and in the year of defence. • Doctoral students with an agreement for a joint PhD with a non-Flemish institution only pay tuition fees in the year of defence. • Doctoral students with an agreement for a joint PhD with a Flemish university only pay tuition fees at ...

  7. DOCX Description of the PhD

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  9. Extension of the PhD trajectory due to Covid-19 (OZR Budget)

    In consultation with all Flemish universities, a uniform approach and uniform assessment criteria were agreed to allow an exceptional compensation extension. to accommodate PhD students who, as a result of the. COVID-19 crisis are unable to complete their research in the foreseen time schedule. This means that the same criteria apply to all VUB ...

  10. Marco Giacalone

    Marco is a Research Professor at the Private and Economic Law Department (PREC) and Co-Director of the Research Group on Digitalisation and Access to Justice (DIKE) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He has been involved in several collaborative research projects (co-) funded by the European Union. His work analyses the transformations of ...

  11. Veterans Upward Bound Program

    The Veterans Upward Bound (VUB) program was initiated in the 1970s as part of the Upward Bound program, with the special mission of helping U.S. military veterans make the transition to postsecondary education. All projects must provide instruction in mathematics, laboratory science, composition, literature and foreign languages.

  12. PDF Master thesis guidelines 2019

    Professors or researchers with a PhD degree from the Biology department or, if relevant, from another VUB department (e.g. Bio-engineering) or even another Belgian institute (e.g. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Royal Institute of Natural History, National Botanical Garden,…). • Date of submission 2) Abstract

  13. PDF Partnership agreement governing the joint supervision and awarding of a

    regarding the Conferring of PhD degrees at the VUB, nor with the supplementary faculty regulations in place at the VUB faculty where the PhD project takes shape. The stipulations of this agreement may not conflict with [insert partner institution's regulations] . In the event of conflicting stipulations VUB regulations shall take precedence.

  14. PhD Regulations

    The PhD Regulations defines the requirements and steps leading to the completion of a PhD programme at ULB. The following faculties apply the general regulations with specific provisions: Additional provisions (on top of faculty-specific provisions) are included for the PhD in the Art and the Science of Art:

  15. PDF VU Doctorate Regulations

    to admit the prospective PhD candidate to the PhD programme. The College of Deansalso decides on the appointment of the supervisor and the co-supervisor; in doing so, it observes the provisions in Section 3 of these Regulations. The prospective PhD candidate, the supervisor andthe co-supervisor (where applicable) are notified of the decision.