Information Society Law CenterSvitlana Lebedenko is a researcher at the European University Institute. Her Ph.D. thesis entitled “Revolution and Decline: Russian Innovation and Intellectual Property 1917–2020”.
Svitlana Lebedenko is a legal scholar working in the field of socio-legal studies with a focus on global intellectual property law, innovation, and technology markets.
Svitlana holds Master’s degrees from the College of Europe and the Higher School of Economics.
Maria is a doctor in Commercial Law and responsible for the area of commercial law at the University of Castilla la Mancha.
For several years she has been working in the field of Blockchain, in particular, in the applications that this technology has in the field of governance.
Main research areas: data protection and data governance. In particular, her field of study focuses on how blockchain enables new governance models. Thus, DAOs – decentralized autonomous organizations- are one of Maria’s study objects. In this area, the European data protection system, and the need to make users owners and responsible for their data, while finding ways to monetize it, makes her analysis seek the link between these ideas and decentralized companies.
Maria believes that in this field of distributed ledger technologies, it is necessary for jurists to be brave and propose solutions that provide legal certainty to the enormous possibilities that exist to create, as she said, models of governance – corporate, public, political… more sustainable and more democratic.
Alessandro is attending a second-level master’s course in Cybersecurity at the University of Milan.
Alessandro has a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in cybersecurity and a specialization in cybercrime and digital investigations from the University of Milan.
He consults daily on cybersecurity, privacy, and IP compliance. He is also a computer-forensic consultant in civil litigation. In addition, he audits, optimizes and digitizes business processes. His areas of research are: cybersecurity, cybersecurity law, compliance, personal data protection and intellectual property protection.
Dr Kim Barker is a Senior Lecturer in law at the Open University Law School, specialising in internet law including online violence against women, online misogyny, online hate speech, regulation of online content (especially via social media platforms and online games), and intellectual property law (copyright, and digital content).
She holds a PhD in Intellectual Property Law, Internet Regulation and Contract Law from Aberystwyth University.
Dr Barker’s research interests focus on regulation of online multi-user environments, particularly social media and online games.
Her areas of expertise include social media regulation, online harms & online safety, online abuse, particularly online misogyny and online violence against women, online violence, online hate speech, intellectual property law (copyright, digital copyright & online content creation), and aspects of online contractual regulation.
Kim’s interests lie in control of content and regulation of multi-user online environments including online gaming, and social media in particular.
Dr. Natalie Alkiviadou is a senior research fellow at Justitia.
Her research interests lie in the freedom of expression, the far-right, hate speech, hate crime and non-discrimination.
She holds a PhD (Law) from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her LLM from the University of Utrecht and her LLB from the University of Warwick.
She has published three monographs, namely ‘The Far-Right in International and European Law’ (Routledge 2019), ‘Legal Challenges to the Far-right: Lessons from England and Wales’ (Routledge 2019) and ‘The Far-Right in Greece and the Law’ (Routledge 2022). She has published on hate speech, free speech and the far-right in a wide range of peer reviewed journals, has been reviewer for journals such as the International Journal of Human Rights, The Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights and guest editor for the International Journal of Semiotics and the Law.
Natalie has over ten years experience in working with civil society, educators and public servants on human rights education and has participated in European actions such as the High-Level Group on Combatting Racism, Xenophobia and Other Forms of Intolerance. Natalie has been the country researcher for the 2019 European Network against Racism report on Hate Crime and the 2022 report on structural racism. She has drafted handbooks, strategy papers and shadow reports for projects funded by the Anna Lindh Foundation, the European Commission and the European Youth Foundation, on themes such as hate speech.
Zoi Krokida is a Lecturer in AI, Innovation and Law Intellectual Property Law and European Law at the Brunel University London, UK. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has published in the field of ISP liability in peer- review journals.
She is a qualified lawyer and member of the Athens Bar Association since 2012, having working experience in the legal and policy sector in Athens and Brussels, respectively. Zoi has a Law degree from Greece, an LLM in European Commercial Law from the University of Freiburg, and a PhD in Intellectual property law from the University of Reading with a thesis called A critical evaluation of the regulatory framework of hosting information society service providers; liability for copyright and trademark infringements: criticisms, challenges and recommendations. She was a Lecturer in the Law School at De Montfort University. and at the Stirling University.
Dr Asta Zokaityte is a Law Lecturer at the Kent Law School.
She has a PhD in the area of consumer protection law. She obtained her undergraduate law degree from the University of Vilnius. In 2009, Asta was awarded an LLM degree in International Commercial Law by the University of Kent.
Previously, Dr Zokaityte practiced as an associate attorney at law in one of the largest international law firms in Lithuania. She advised corporate clients across different fields of practice, including but not limited to: international private law, corporate credit, capital markets and securities law, corporate restructuring and insolvency, mergers and acquisitions, commercial real estate, and financial services.
Dr Zokaityte’s research interests lie in Financial Services Regulation, Corporate Governance and Consumer Protection, Digital Marketplace with a focus on socio-legal, interdisciplinary approaches to law. Her research explores the ways in which novel edu-regulatory techniques are deployed by financial regulators to govern consumer behaviour in financial markets. Specifically, Dr Zokaityte has examined these new edu-regulatory sites in her recent articles on financial illiteracy and consumer numeracy. Her book Financial Literacy Education: Edu-regulating Our Saving and Spending Habits that problematises conventional literature on consumer financial education has been published by Palgrave in 2017.
Dr Zokaityte currently works on a new project on the regulation and governance of FemTech and seeks to explore gender dynamics within the FemTech market.
Dr. Juan Arismendi Zambrano is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of the UCD College of Business.
He has been appointed for a Visiting Research position in the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and he holds an affiliation as a Visiting Research Fellow of the ICMA Centre, University of Reading. In the past, he had positions as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of the Department of Economics, Accounting and Finance, and the School of Business of the Maynooth University, National University of Ireland, Assistant Professor and Head of the Economics, Accountancy, and Finance Department at the Business School of the University of Monterrey (UDEM), Senior Visiting Professor of the Technological Institute of Monterrey (ITESM) – Leon Campus, Assistant Professor of the Economics Department at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil. He served as Research Fellow of the University of Brasilia (UnB) under the supervision of Prof. Herbert Kimura.
He holds a DPhil (PhD) in Finance (Quantitative Finance) from the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School (AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS) in the University of Reading, UK. He is certified as PRM (Professional Risk Manager – PRMIA), FRM (Financial Risk Manager-GARP), CQF (Certificate in Quantitative Finance – 7city – Wilmott), Series 65 Investment Advisor Law Examination, and as Investment Advisor by the Certificate of Investment Management from the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment (Unit 6 FSA Principles of Financial Regulation + Unit 5 Investment Management) from the United Kingdom.
Ammar Younas is currently pursuing his PhD in Philosophy at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He studied Chinese Law as Chinese Government Scholar at Tsinghua University School of Law in Beijing, China.
He also holds degrees in Medicine, Jurisprudence, Finance, Political Marketing, International and Comparative Politics and Human Rights from Kyrgyzstan, Italy, and Lebanon. Ammar is interested in Legal Philosophy, Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Tech Law, and Artificial Intelligence.
He is the founder of Central Asia Tech Law.
Georgios is an Associate Professor for IT Law and Legal Informatics at the Law School, University of Athens. With a grat academic background and a blend of legal and technical expertise, he is a leading figure in the field of IT Law in Greece.
He earned his LLB from the University of Athens and went on to complete his Ph.D. from the University of London.
Georgios also holds professional qualifications in computer programming and system analysis, making him uniquely qualified to explore the intersection of law and technology.
Since 2015, he has been directing the Laboratory of Law and Informatics at the University of Athens.
Georgios is the author of four books and has contributed to over 40 articles and collective works. His teaching portfolio is equally impressive, covering subjects like Legal Informatics, Privacy and Information Technology Law.
His main research areas span a wide range of topics, including Internet Law and Regulation, Protection of Personal Data, Legal Information Systems, Technology, Cybersecurity, and Electronic Signatures.
Georgios serves as a vital link between the academic and professional worlds, contributing significantly to the discourse on IT Law both in Greece and internationally.
As a qualified lawyer, he is registered with the Athens Bar Association and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos).