Francesco Celentano is an Italian lawyer. For more than a decade, he held contract teaching appointments in Legal Informatics, Computer Science and IT Skills on degree programmes in Law, Business Administration and Business Legal Services at Università degli Studi Giustino Fortunato.
In 1999, he founded StudioCelentano.it, an online daily publication on law, the internet and new technologies. He was the first president of CINFOR – Centre for Legal Informatics and Innovation at the Foggia Bar Association.
He served as IT representative for the regional union of the Bar Councils of Bari, Brindisi, Foggia, Lecce, Lucera, Taranto and Trani; for the Foggia Bar Council at the Italian Foundation for Legal Innovation; and for the Foggia and Lucera Bar Councils’ professional training school. He was also a member of the IT committees of the Fédération des Barreaux d’Europe and the Court of Foggia.