The European Journal of Privacy Law & Technologies (EJPLT) is a Scientific Journal awarded Class A status by ANVUR. It is in Open Access Diamond and indexed in Scopus and others international database. The Journal focuses on the relationship between law and new technologies and, specifically, on that between privacy law and technology’s development. It is the scientific Journal of the Research Centre in European Private Law (ReCEPL), that become, from 1s January 2026, the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence ReCEPL4STAI (2026-2028) – ‘ReCEPL for Stustainable & Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence’ (Call: ERASMUS-JMO-2025-HEI-TCH-RSCH – Proposal n. 101240752) Indeed, ReCEPL4STAI has strengthened the journal’s focus on sustainable and trustworthy artificial intelligence and. aims to contribute to the European AI strategy in the development of an AI that respects EU values and human rights, with particular regard to AI applications in legal and judicial systems, AI-driven automation and AI applications in brain research and cognitive technologies.

It aims to gather relevant contributions on the possible regulation of new technologies in a human-centered perspective, thus becoming an enabler for the dissemination of scientific information and research activities throughout the European Union.

The Journal topics range from data protection and the new legal challenges raised by the development of Artificial Intelligence technologies, embedded or non-embedded in Robotics, to the Information and communication technologies domain (e.g. Internet of things, technologies for data storage, social media). Furthermore, the Journal deal with the topics of blockchain, automated negotiation and computable contracts (smart contras), including all the applications of legal design as a topic of increasing relevance by legal scholars. Moreover, key attention is given to all issues related to the protection of human beings in digital environments (e-commerce and web economy), as well as technological applications that use biological systems, living organisms or their derivatives, to create or modify products or processes (biotechnologies applications). From 2022, the Journal welcomes contributions on topics related to the concept of Sustainability, primarily from the perspective of European studies. Individual contributions on these topics are identified with a leaf symbol.