Stefano Rodotà
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Stefano Rodotà (born 30 May 1933 in Cosenza; † 23 June 2017 in Rome) was an Italian lawyer, university lecturer, politician and author of numerous books also of non-legal character.
Rodotà studied law at the University of La Sapienza in Rome, graduating in 1955 under the supervision of the legal philosopher Emilio Betti. At the same university, Rodotà later became a full professor of civil law. As a visiting professor, he has taught at numerous universities in Italy and abroad, including All Souls College Oxford, Stanford School of Law, and the Faculty of Law at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. From 1979 to 1994 he was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, first as an independent candidate for the Italian Communist Party, from 1983 for the Sinistra Indipendente list and subsequently for the PDS. In 1989 he was appointed Minister of Justice in Achille Occhetto's shadow cabinet. From 30 April to 4 June 1992 he served as Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies. From 1997 to 2005, he was the first Chairman of the newly created independent authority for data protection (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali).
In April 2013, the populist MoVimento 5 Stelle and later also the ecological left-wing party SEL (Sinistra Ecologia Libertà) pleaded to vote for Rodotà in the upcoming election of a new Italian president (successor for the supposedly outgoing Giorgio Napolitano).
Stefano Rodotà (2013)
Writings (selection)
- Il problema della responsabilità civile, Giuffrè, Milano 1964
- Il diritto privato nella società moderna, Il Mulino, Bologna 1971
- Elaboratori elettronici e controllo sociale, Il Mulino, Bologna 1973
- Il terribile diritto. Studi sulla proprietà privata, Il Mulino, Bologna 1981
- Repertorio di fine secolo, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1992
- Tecnologie e diritti, Il Mulino, Bologna 1995
- Tecnopolitica: la democrazia e le nuove tecnologie della comunicazione, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1997
- Elogio del moralismo, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2011
- (Ed.): Alle origini della Costituzione, Il Mulino, Bologna 1998
