Bello, Barbara

Barbara Giovanna Bello is a (Tenure Track) Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Law and Legal Informatics at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, where she teaches the courses “Philosophy of Law”, “Digital Justice/Legal Informatics”, “Data Protection and Cybersecurity”, as well as a module within the course
“Citizenship: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives”.
She coordinates the E-Lab ‘Equality in Theory and Action: Towards a Legal Clinic’ at the University of Tuscia, as part of the International Comparative Equality Course coordinated by the University of California, Berkeley. She is also co-coordinator of the Legal Writing Lab within the Law degree programme.
She has served as the Departmental Coordinator for Internationalisation, and since 2026, she has held the position of Deputy Coordinator of the PhD Programme in ‘Welfare, Diversity and Gender Studies’ at the University of Tuscia.
In 2026, she was selected for inclusion in the 100esperte.it database by its Scientific Committee and is listed as an Italian expert contributing to the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law project.
She has held DAAD, Max Planck and Marie Curie fellowships, among others, undertaking research stays in Bochum, Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau. She has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences.
Since 2012, she has coordinated the RCSL/ISA Working Group on Gender, Law and Society and has been a member of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law. Since March 2026, she has also served as Coordinator of the Research Line on Gender and Intersectionality at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati, Spain.
She has been a member of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law (University of California, Berkeley School of Law) since 2013 and has served on its Board since 2025.
Since 2018, she has served as a correspondent for the Interdepartmental Research Centre on Discrimination and Vulnerability at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and as an ISLC Fellow at the Information Law and Society Centre at the University of Milan.
She is also a member of the Law and Society Association (LSA).
As part of her public engagement activities, she is a founding member of the National Network for Countering Hate Speech and Hate-Related Phenomena and the Italian Equality Network, where she coordinates the Advocacy Group, and has been a member of the Italian Equality Network (IEN) since its
inception in 2021. Since October 2026, she has served as Vice-President of the European Women Lawyers Association (EWLA).
She has collaborated with Save the Children on projects promoting access to STEM education and digital literacy among children experiencing educational disadvantage, as well as projects aimed at developing employability, green and digital skills among disadvantaged young people. Her work has supported the integration of gender and intersectional perspectives into these initiatives.