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Prof. dr Pierre de Gioia-Carabellese
ORCID: 0000-0003-2952-0627

Professor of Business Law at Kozminski University (Poland). He is a solicitor and notary public in Edinburgh, a Cilex Legal Executive Litigator (civil and criminal) in England and Wales, and an Italian barrister, admitted to the higher courts. He holds a JD summa cum laude (Bari), a Ph.D. in banking and corporate law with distinction (Siena), an LLM by research with viva (Aberdeen), an LLM in European and International Trade Law (Glasgow Caledonian University), a PGCAP (Heriot Watt University), a Master in Leadership (Huddersfield University). He has been full professor of law in the UK since 2017 (Huddersfield, 2017) and he has been a visiting scientist/scholar professor at several institutions such as Cagliari, Complutense, Leiden, Padova. His teaching and research specialisation is business law.

 
DOI: 10.33226/0137-5490.2026.10.1
JEL: K24, K20

The term “drone” has become one of the most cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary terms in contemporary law discourses. Traditionally, “drone” is used to identify aerial unmanned vehicles; nevertheless, as it will be demonstrated in this research paper, the same word is helpful to describe some phenomena encompassed by business law too. Navigation and space law, company law, and employment law seem to adopt the concept of drone in order to refer to experiences characterised by three elements: opaqueness, remoteness, and technology. In essence, this contribution aims to demonstrate why and how IT law requires an interdisciplinary analysis of legal notions. From space law to business law through company and employment law, “drones of a feather flock together”.

Keywords: drones; business law; DAOs; securitisations; digital regulation