
Michela Leggio is a legal scholar specialising in Administrative and Public Law, with an interdisciplinary focus on the digital transformation of the public sector. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Milano-Bicocca, where she earned her PhD in 2023. In recent years, she has been a visiting researcher at Columbia University (2022) and Maastricht University – Maastricht Center for European Law (2025).
Her research focuses on the role of artificial intelligence in the exercise of public power, particularly in the fields of environmental and migration governance, for which she was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Seal of Excellence in 2024. More recently, her work has expanded to explore academic governance and the effects of artificial intelligence on research and, more specifically, higher education institutions.
Michela is the author of several publications examining the relationship between digital technologies and public authority. She is also co-author of Governance e regolazione del settore agroalimentare verso il paradigma One Health (2024), where she explored the role of the One Health approach in the regulation and enforcement of food safety.
Her list of publications is available at: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7376-6010
Contact: ml10239@nyu.edu