Attilio L.M. Toscano | Administrative and Supreme Court lawyer

Background

Courtroom and academia

Administrative lawyer admitted to practise before the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation and the higher courts, and adjunct professor of constitutional and public law. He has always combined legal practice with academic research and teaching.

An expert in Italian and EU public law, constitutional law, administrative law and administrative and accounting procedure, he brings to each case both the method of academic research and the pragmatism of daily litigation.

Education and admissions

Law degree, University of Catania (1995)
PhD in Forensic sciences (XII cycle), University of Catania (2001)
Member of the Catania Bar since 1998
Admitted before the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation since 2010
Adjunct professor of constitutional and public law, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania
Working languages: Italian and English

Expertise

Areas of practice

Research and publications

Scholarly work

His most recent research addresses the relationship between artificial intelligence and public power, and the constitutional guarantees of administrative procedure and judicial process, with essays in preparation on the duty of human review of algorithmic decisions, on the self-government of the judiciary after the 2026 referendum, and on the missing guarantees of constitutional adjudication. Principal publications include:

Toscano A.L.M., Oltre il rischio e la sorveglianza dell'AI Act: per un «costituzionalismo algoritmico sostanziale», in Bilancio Comunità Persona (Italian class A journal, Area 12), Quaderno n. 3/2026, Intelligenza artificiale e interazione umana: una prospettiva interdisciplinare, edited by G. Scaccia, pp. 46-79.
Toscano A.L.M., Magnifica humanitas e costituzionalismo della dignità relazionale umana, in E. Lanza (ed.), Responsabilità e tecnologie, Pisa, Pacini, 2026, pp. 177-208.
Toscano A.L.M., Oltre il risk-based approach, verso un “costituzionalismo algoritmico sostanziale” nell’era dell’intelligenza artificiale, in E. Lanza (ed.), Complessità e scienze sociali, Pisa, Pacini, 2026, pp. 101-135, ISBN 9788833799889.
Toscano A.L.M., Oltre il risk-based approach, verso un «costituzionalismo algoritmico sostanziale» nell'era dell'intelligenza artificiale, in AmbienteDiritto.it (Italian class A journal, Area 12), Anno XXV, fasc. 3/2025, pp. 193-227.
Toscano A.L.M., L'«isolazionismo» della giustizia amministrativa in Sicilia, in AmbienteDiritto.it (Italian class A journal, Area 12), Anno XXIV, fasc. 3/2024, pp. 56-66.
Toscano A.L.M., La «specialissima» autonomia della giustizia amministrativa in Sicilia, in AmbienteDiritto.it (Italian class A journal, Area 12), Anno XXIV, fasc. 2/2024, pp. 156-205.
Toscano A.L.M., Il controllo sui magistrati. Vigilanza ministeriale, C.S.M., procedimento disciplinare e garanzie costituzionali, Napoli, E.S.I., 2020, pp. XVI-208.

Recent conference papers:

Tutela del consumatore e regolazione del mercato nella prospettiva costituzionale ed eurounionale (Consumer protection and market regulation from a constitutional and EU perspective), paper at the conference «Le modifiche al Codice del Consumo tra sostenibilità, greenwashing e nuove tutele», organised by the Centro per i Diritti del Cittadino (CODICI consumer association) under the patronage of the Sicilian Regional Assembly, accredited by the Catania Bar Association, Catania, Hotel Nettuno, 15 May 2026 · video of the paper (in Italian).
Oltre il rischio e la sorveglianza dell'AI Act: per un «costituzionalismo algoritmico sostanziale» (Beyond the AI Act's risk and oversight: towards a “substantive algorithmic constitutionalism”), paper in the panel «Intelligenza artificiale e interazione umana», ICON·S Italy, 6th Annual Conference «Lo Stato vis à vis i poteri economici e privati nell'era digitale», University of Cagliari, 3-4 October 2025.

Learned societies and editorial boards. Regular member of the International Society of Public Law (ICON·S). Member of the editorial board of the six-monthly online journal KorEuropa.

The full list of publications, academic career and areas of practice appears in the downloadable curriculum (in Italian); citations are on his Google Scholar profile.

Curriculum vitae (PDF) The matters handled