DrSergio Sulmicelli

Lecturer, Colin Phegan Lectureship

Sydney Law School

BIO

Sergio is the Colin Phegan Lecturer (teaching and research) at the Sydney Law School, University of Sydney. His research lies at the intersection of comparative constitutional law, technology regulation, and equality law.

Before joining the University of Sydney, Sergio was an Academic Fellow in Comparative Public Law and Adjunct Professor of Gender law at Bocconi University in Milan and a Research Fellow at the University of Trento (Italy), where he completed his PhD in Comparative and European Legal Studies (cum laude).

He has held visiting research appointments at the New York University, the University of New South Wales, the Universidad de Castilla–La Mancha. He received the Bocconi University Teaching Award for Innovation in Teaching for his contribution to innovative legal education (a.y. 2023/2024) and and was recognized as the Best PhD graduate (a.y. 2024/2025) by the Faculty of Law at the University of Trento. His first monograph, Queering Law and Artificial Intelligence: Embedding Equality in an Algorithmic Age (Routledge), is forthcoming.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY APPOINTMENTS

  • Lecturer
    The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia29 Jun 2026 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Adjunct Professor
    Bocconi University, School of Law, Milan, Italy1 Sep 2024 - 29 Jun 2026
  • Academic Fellow
    Bocconi University, School of Law, Milan, Italy1 Sep 2022 - 29 Jun 2026
  • Research Fellow
    University of Trento, Faculty of Law, Trento, Italy1 Nov 2024 - 1 Jun 2026

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Legal Clerk
    Public Attorney Office, Siracusa, Italy15 Jun 2020 - 15 Jan 2022

LANGUAGES

  • Italian
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

SCHOOL

  • Sydney Law School

AVAILABILITY

  • Research collaboration
  • Conference as a panellist or speaker

UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 10 Reduced Inequalities
  • 5 Gender Equality
  • 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)