Carlotta Fossà attained a Law Degree at the University of Ferrara in 2012 with a thesis entitled Responsibility of the Doctor for Lack of Informed Consent: a Swing between ‘Scalpel’ and ‘Knife’ of the Aggressor (supervisor prof. Costanza Bernasconi, correlators prof. Ciro Grandi and prof. Orsetta Giolo), with mark 110/110 with honours.

After spending 18 months in forensic (lawyer Paolo Meneghel) and notary (notar Lorenzo Todeschini Premuda) practice in Padua, Italy and simultaneously attending forensic and notary schools, and 6 months in forensic practice in Munich, Germany (Rechtsanwalt Timm Leisenberg), she obtained the qualification required in order to practice the legal profession at the Court of Appeal of Venice.

Since September 2016 Carlotta has been a PhD candidate at Ca’ Foscari (Venice) in “Law, Market and Person” with a thesis entitled Private Profiles of the Digital Single Market: the Potential of a “Protected Freedom” in the Framework of a Utopian Holistic European Harmonization (supervisor prof. Gianluca Sicchiero), focused on the two proposals of the directive of 9th December 2015, respectively on online sales and the supply of digital content.

She is a specialist tutor and an expert on the subjects of Private Law and IT Law at Ca’ Foscari University, and she is editor of the column monographs of the legal journal Jus Civile.