Barbara Giovanna Bello

An expert in legal philosophy, intersectionality, discrimination, and gender-based violence, she focuses on online hate speech and mobbing.

Role

Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Law, Department of Legal, Social, and Pedagogical Sciences (DIKE), University of Tuscia, qualified to hold full and associate professorships. Since 2024, she has been the department's coordinator for internationalization. Since 2026, she has been vice-coordinator of the PhD program in "Welfare, Diversity, and Gender Studies."

Bio

After graduating in Law and qualifying to practice law (2008), Barbara Giovanna Bello obtained the Renato Treves international research doctorate in Law and Society in 2012 at the University of Milan, where she subsequently became a research fellow and subsequently a contract lecturer until 2021.

She is currently a researcher in philosophy of law at the University of Tuscia, where she teaches Philosophy of Law, Digital Justice, and Cybersecurity and Data Protection, and is the director of the E-Lab "Equality in Theory and Action." Her research focuses on intersectionality , human rights protection, discrimination and gender-based violence , mobbing and online hate speech, with a focus on conflict management and mediation.

He has been a member of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law since 2013 and its Board since 2025, a correspondent at the CRID of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and a fellow at the ISLC of the University of Milan (2023-2025). A DAAD and Marie Curie fellow, he has conducted research visits in Bochum, Berlin, Heidelberg, and Freiburg im Breisgau.