IT/AI LAW SCHOOL

Axel Voss (CDU) - born in 1963 - studied law at the Universities of Trier, Freiburg and Munich. Since 1994, he is working as a lawyer. From 1994 to 2000, he was a civil advisor at the EU Commission's representation in Germany. Afterwards, he worked for nine years as lecturer for European Affairs at the RheinAhrCampus of the College of Koblenz.

He became a Member of the European Parliament in 2009, where he represents the Mittelrhein area, which includes the cities of Cologne, Bonn and Leverkusen and the districts Rhein-Sieg and Rhein-Erft. Axel Voss is EPP-coordinator for the Committee on Legal Affairs as well as deputy member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and from 2020 to 2022 member and rapporteur in the special Committee on Artificial Intelligence. Besides questions of European Law, his main area of expertise is the digitization of our daily life. For the European People’s Party group, he was among others (shadow-)rapporteur for the new Copyright Directive, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Passenger Name Record Directive (PNR) as well as for the updated Eurojust Regulation. At the moment, he is (shadow-)rapporteur for the AI Act and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.

Axel Voss is also CDU chair of the regional section Mittelrhein, regional chair of the Europe Union Bonn/Rhein-Sieg and Vice President of the Mérite Européen Friendship and Assistance Association, Germany. 

More information: www.axel-voss-europa.de

Martin Ebers is Associate Professor of IT Law at the University of Tartu (Estonia) and permanent research fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He is co-founder and president of the Robotics & AI Law Society (RAILS). In 2020, he published the books „Algorithms and Law“ at Cambridge University Press, "Rechtshandbuch Künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik" at C.H. Beck Publishing and "Algorithmic Governance and Governance of Algorithms" at Springer.

Professor of Commercial Law, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Currently, Academic Visitor at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 2022
Sir Roy Goode Scholar at UNIDROIT, 2021-2022
Arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration of Madrid and of Spain. 

Member of the EU Expert Group on Liability/Technologies formation that elaborated the Report Liability for AI and other emerging technologies 
Member of the Expert Group to the EU Observatory on Platform Economy assisting the EU Commission on Platform rules
Member of the Expert Group on B2B Data Sharing and Cloud Computing assisting the Commission on the elaboration of Model Contract Terms and Standard Contracts. 
Expert at UNIDROIT and UNCITRAL in Working Groups on Enforcement (Technology), Warehouse Receipts and Digital Economy (AI for international trade, Data transactions, Online Platforms). Spanish Delegate before UNCITRAL WG VI on Security Interests and WG IV on E-Commerce (Projects on AI in international data and Data transactions), and before UNIDROIT for MAC protocol. 
Member of the Inclusive Global Legal Innovation Platform (IGLIP) on Online Dispute Resolution (Department of Justice, Hong Kong – UNCITRAL). 

European Law Institute (ELI):
- Member of ELI Council since 2019 and of ELI Executive Committee since 2021. 
- Author of the ELI Innovation paper: Guiding Principles on ADM in Europe, 2022
- Co-Rapporter to the ELI Project on Algorithmic Contracts 
- Member of the ELI Project on Model Rules for Online Platforms 
- Assessor to ELI Project on Smart Contracts and Blockchain 

Member of the Advertising Tribunal, of Autocontrol, Spanish Advertising Self-Regulation Organization (2014-2018).
Member of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law
Member of the Artificial Intelligence Ethics Committee, Spanish Bar Association 
Member of the Advisory Committee to Open Internet Governance Institute 
European Central Bank Legal Research Programme 2018 fellow with a project on Fintech and Stanford Law School TTLF fellow with a comparative analysis of US-EU regulations on Crowdfunding platforms. 

James J. Coleman Sr. Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Tulane Law School, Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester College in Oxford University, Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre of European Law and Politics (ZERP) of University of Bremen (Germany), Chair of Excellence at Oxford University (Harris Manchester College). Other visiting teaching or research positions at a number of universities and research centers such as Columbia Law School (2014, 2015/16, 2021), Université de Toulouse 1 Capitole as a Professeur invité, University of Washington, University of Tokyo (Japan), and University College of London (UK). Main research interests focus on digital law, international business transactions and secured transactions and corporate finance.

Claudia Sandei is Associate Professor of Technology Law and Corporate Law at the University of Padova, Director of Innovation and Technology Law Lab (ITLL), Co-founder and Managing Director of the Digital Law Network (DNL). Qualified Lawyer since 2008, after graduating in Law in Padova in 2003, Prof. Sandei got a Ph. D. at the University of Ferrara in 2009. Besides IT Law, her areas of legal expertise include Corporate Law and IP Law. Author of two books on the impact of Technology on Corporate Governance in listed companies and author of many papers, Lecturer in many foreign Universities (Budapest, Leeds, Nottingham, Barcelona, etc.), Member of the Faculty of the PhD Programme in Corporate Law and Professor of EU Company Law at UACS (Skopie, MK). Member of the editorial board of some of the most important Law Journals in Italy, Prof. Sandei has been in the Panel of the 2018 ELI Conference (Digital Law SIG) as one of the most renowned experts of IT Law in Italy. TEDx Speaker.

Estelle Derclaye is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Nottingham. She is the author and editor of several books and over 100 articles in the field of IP law and has done expert work for the UK Intellectual Property Office, the European Commission (including in 2018 the study in support of the review of the database directive) and national and foreign law firms. She was a senior visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley in 2010 and at Melbourne Law School in 2013 and a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore in 2015. Her main areas of research are copyright and designs, database protection, intellectual property overlaps, intellectual property and climate change, and intellectual property and well-being.  She is a president of the European Copyright Society, a group of academics aiming to influence policy-making. A full biography and the list of her publications can be found at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/law/people/estelle.derclaye.

Péter Mezei is a professor of law at the University of Szeged. He was awarded an honorary adjunct professorship (dosentti) at the Faculty of Law, University of Turku (Finland) in December 2014. He is a professor invité of the Université Jean Moulin Lyon III (France). He coordinates the joint intellectual property LLM program of the Technical University of Dresden and University of Szeged on the Szeged side. His courses and research focus on comparative law, as well as comparative, digital, International and European copyright law. He is a member of the European Copyright Society and the Hungarian Copyright Expert Board.

Prof. Zheng (Sophia) Tang is a Professor at Wuhan University's Institute of International Law in China, the Associate Dean at Wuhan University Academy of International Law and Governance in China, and a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Additionally, she is a barrister, arbitrator, and mediator. She specializes in private international law, internet law and law and technology. Professor Tang obtained her BA in International Law from Wuhan University, an LLM in International Law from Manchester University, and a PhD in International Law from Birmingham University. She formerly held the positions of a Full Professor at Newcastle University, an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, a Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, a senior visiting scholar at the Duke University and the Max Planck Institute of Comparative and International Private Law.

Michał Baumert is a partner in Honigman LLP. Michał practices at the intersection of innovation, technology, law and commerce and advises on technology-driven transactions, cloud computing, intellectual property, and data privacy and security. Michał has also developed a focus on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, machine learning, and other artificial intelligence-related concepts. Prior to becoming an attorney, he worked as a software engineer designing and developing business intelligence, warehousing, and customer relationship management software.

Before joining Barnes & Thornburg, Michał was a technology transactions associate at an international law firms Mayer Brown and Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, D.C. and Chicago. He also served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Deborah A. Robinson, magistrate judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. 

Michal has graduated from the George Washington University Law School and Roosevelt University. Michał has also earned a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) certification offered by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). 

Michał, a native of Poland, was born and grew up in Gdańsk.

Attorney-at-law and patent attorney practicing with Maruta Wachta Law Firm registered partnership. Head of AI Desk at Maruta Wachta.
He has been gaining expertise over the last 15 years in the law of new technologies in its broadest sense. He deals with contract negotiations in the IT sector and advises on data protection and electronic commerce.
Roman Bieda sat on a panel of experts of the Digitalisation Council created by the Minister for Digitalistion during its second term. As part of his duties, he advised on the amendment of national law regarding personal data protection with a view to implementing the GDPR requirements into the national law. He was head of the subgroup for legal aspects of AI on the panel of experts with the Minister for Digitalization regarding the drafting of the assumptions for AI strategy for Poland. He is also a member of the Digital Chair of Ethics and Law.
Roman Bieda combines his professional duties with lecturing. He lectures on intellectual property law and new technologies law at the Warsaw School of Economics, Kozminsky University and Katowice School of Economics.
He supervises academic research work and lectures at the postgraduate studies of The Law of New Technologies and Business.AI, Technology, Law, Application, all offered by Kozminsky University. Previously he lectured at MBA programmes. He has authored papers concerning IT law and data protection law.

Law studies in Constance and Hamburg (Germany) and Montpellier (France)

Doctorate (Dr. iur.) at the University of Constance ("Market Entry Barriers due to Lean Supplier Structures and Art. 85 EC Treaty")

Master "Droit du Marché" at the University of Montpellier (Competition and Antitrust Law, European Law)

Attorney-at-law since 1997 
- from 1997 to 2002 attorney at law with Bartsch und Partner, Karlsruhe
- from 2002 to 2011 lawyer and in-house counsel at IBM Deutschland GmbH, transaction consulting, head of the legal department Global Technology Services and head of Legal Germany

2011 Full professor at the University of Applied Sciences, Constance, Germany

prof. of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, attorney-at-law, consultant to the Council of Europe on electronic evidence and the digitalisation of the judiciary, Chairman of the Artificial Intelligence Law team at the Virtual Chair of Law and Ethics. Recently, Marek Świerczyński prepared Council of Europe guidelines regarding electronic evidence adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 2019 and the next guidelines on digitalisation of courts are to be adopted on 2021. He is also co-author of the AI strategy of the Ministry of Digitalization and the strategy of health care for the Ministry of Health 2018/2019
('Together for Health' debate). Marek Świerczyński is author or co-editor of many pioneer scientific publications, including first Polish legal manual on artificial intelligence law (C.H. Beck 2020). He is also a long-time advisor to international legal law firms, such as Baker & McKenzie or KRK Legal.

Antonio Venditti is an associate in Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the global Intellectual Property and Technology group.

Antonio’s focus is on domestic and international legal advice, where he has been supporting primarily national and international groups, especially those active in financial services, health, transport, digital marketing and consumer industries.

He has advised on several projects in connection with achieving companies’ compliance with privacy and cybersecurity regulations, mainly those introduced by the GDPR and NISD. He has also served on DPO teams in leading companies and supported DPOs, privacy specialists and working groups appointed by clients by offering tailored advice as well as legal opinions, and provided legal assistance in preliminary proceedings instructed by the Italian data protection authority.

He gave his contribution and collaborated to assess and design smart solutions related to, inter alia, innovative mobility device, remote biometric identification solutions for regulatory purposes, geolocalization value-added services.

Antonio also possesses a strong civil and commercial background, having managed legal proceedings on corporate matters and contract law (outsourcing, logistics, software developing and licensing). He has further supported clients on IP law issues, including all aspects relevant to creation, registration, use, exploitation and protection of copyrights, patents, designs and trademarks.

He regularly contributes as panelist in data protection events and authored handbooks and privacy related articles for major editors and Dentons blogs and newsletters.

Cecilia Canova is an associate in Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the global Intellectual Property and Technology practice. 

Cecilia has experience in GDPR compliance and assists clients in the retail, food and beverage, media and new technology sectors with compliance plans and the drafting of privacy documentation. Alongside her compliance work, she frequently works on multijurisdictional projects relating to the management of personal data breaches and requests by data subjects to exercise their rights, including providing legal assistance in preliminary proceedings instituted by the Italian Data Protection Authority. In addition, she has experience in contract law (especially in consumer matters) and also advises on recent developments in connection with artificial intelligence and cybersecurity matters.

She regularly contributes articles to Dentons TMT Bites newsletter.

Expert of the AI LAW TECH Foundation, member of the Warsaw Bar Association of Attorneys-at-Law and member of the Working Group for Artificial Intelligence (GRAI) operating at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. She specializes in contract law, intellectual property law, telecommunications law and issues related to the law of new technologies. She also enjoys conducting court cases in civil and administrative proceedings. She gained professional experience working in international law firms, and currently works as an in-house lawyer in one of the largest company from the telecommunications industry. Laureate of numerous competitions, including, among others, the 2nd edition of the National Competition for trainee advocates and attorneys-at-law: "Construction disputes in the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court" organized by the JDP Law Firm and the 1st edition of the Arbitration Tournament organized by The National Bar Council of Attorneys-at-Law. She combines her professional work with the practice of a lecturer. She teaches subjects related to the law of new technologies at the Kozminski University.

Ms. Clotilde Biron achieved her master’s degree in business law at the University of Sorbonne. Her natural interest in creative innovation, new technology and art has led her to pursue her legal studies in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Poitiers. Clotilde Biron graduated with a Master degree in Intellectual Property and, the following year, with a Master degree in International Litigation Law.
 
Having graduated from the French bar, Clotilde Biron has worked for several well-known law firms in France and in the USA, before creating it’s own law firm in 2019, then Ally Avocats in 2023, with Mr. Jérôme Sujkowski.

Mr. Jérôme Sujkowski achieved his Master degree in Business Law at the University of Sorbonne. His natural interest in creative innovation, new technology and art has led him to pursue his legal studies in Intellectual Property Law at the Center for international Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) at the University of Strasbourg.

Having graduated from the French bar, Jérôme Sujkowski has worked for a french well-known law firm before creating it’s own law firm, Ally Avocats, in 2023, with Mrs. Clotilde Biron.