Dr. Carlotta Rigotti

Carlotta Rigotti holds a master’s degree in law (110/110 cum laude) from the Università degli Studi di Torino (IT). She wrote her final dissertation on prostitution and fundamental rights through comparative and constitutional lenses. After  completing an 18-months internship at a criminal law firm in Torino, Carlotta joined the Fundamental Rights Research Centre of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2018. Since then, she has been involved in the draft and implementation of numerous EU funded projects ranging over divergent topics, including human trafficking for sexual exploitation, child sexual abuse, and gender-based violence occurring online. Since 2019, Carlotta has simultaneously worked on her PhD research addressing the possible criminalisation of sexually abusing woman-like sex robots, while building on how prostitution and pornography laws have already played out in practice. She has published and presented her work on several occasions (e.g., New Journal of European Criminal Law, Women’s International Forum, International Philosophy Human-Technology Relations Conference). Last but not least, Carlotta has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (Freiburg, DE – November 2021 – March 2022) and at the Durham Law School (Durham, UK – April 2022 – July 2023).