Speakers
Frank Pasquale
Frank Pasquale is Professor of Law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. Pasquale’s 2015 book, The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information (Harvard University Press), develops a social theory of reputation, search, and finance, while promoting pragmatic reforms to improve the information economy. Pasquale’s New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI (Harvard University Press, 2020) analyzes the law and policy influencing the adoption of AI in varied fields, and was a finalist for the PROSE Award.
Pasquale’s work on algorithmic accountability has helped bring the insights of social scientists and philosophers to AI law and policy. In media and communication law, he has developed a comprehensive legal analysis of barriers to, and opportunities for, regulation of Internet platforms. In privacy law and surveillance, his work is among the leading legal research on regulation of algorithmic ranking, scoring, and sorting systems, including credit scoring and threat scoring. In health law, he has written a series of articles addressing both technological and financial challenges to U.S. healthcare institutions, focusing on how regulators can help providers improve outcomes.
Péter Paczolay
Péter Paczolay graduated from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest in 1980. After working as a legal adviser, he lectured at the Department of the Philosophy of Law from 1983 to 1990 and from 1990 to 2005 at the Department of Political Sciences at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Since 1992 he has been Head of Department of Political Sciences at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of József Attila University of Szeged (at present University of Szeged). Between 1994 and 1998 he was Vice-Dean of the Faculty. He is full professor since 2000. On 1 January 1990 he became chief counsellor to the Constitutional Court and from November 1996 he worked as Secretary General of the Court. From August 2000 he was Deputy Head, from August 2005 Head of the Office of the President of the Republic of Hungary.He was elected Judge of the Constitutional Court in February 2006 and he was Vice-President of the Court from March 2007 to July 2008. The plenary session of the Constitutional Court elected him President on 4 July 2008 for three years. On 4 July 2011 the Hungarian Parliament – for the period of his mandate as Constitutional Judge, until February 2015 – elected him as President of the Court. In 2002 he was elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Salzburg).
Between 2010 and 2015 he was member of the panel provided for by article 255 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, mandated to give an opinion on the suitability of candidates to perform the duties of judge or advocate general of the Court of Justice or the General Court. In 2016-2017 he served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Italy, Malta and San Marino.He is judge of the European Court of Human Rights since 24 April 2017.
Gilad Abiri
Gilad Abiri is an Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Program on Law and Innovation at Peking University School of Transnational Law, an Affiliated Faculty Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, and a Senior Research Affiliate at Singapore Management University’s Digital Law Centre. His research examines the intersection of law and technology, with particular focus on AI regulation, platform governance, and the legitimacy of digital information systems. His recent scholarship on artificial intelligence and digital platforms has appeared in leading journals including the California Law Review Online, German Law Journal, Georgia Law Review, BYU Law Review, Yale Journal of Law and Technology, Stanford Technology Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Michigan Technology Law Review, and Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.
Enrique Armijo
Enrique Armijo is a Professor at Elon University School of Law and a Faculty Affiliate at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and UNC’s Center for Information, Technology and Public Life. He writes and teaches in law, technology, and disinformation, as well as Torts, Constitutional Law, and First Amendment law.
Joan Barata
Joan Barata works on freedom of expression, media regulation, and platform regulation issues. He is a Visiting professor at Faculdade de Direito – Católica no Porto and member of the Center for Law, Democracy and Society at Queen Mary University in London. He has been Senior Legal Fellow at The Future Free Speech project at Vanderbilt University and well as Fellow of the Program on Platform Regulation at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center. He has published a large number of articles and books on these subjects, both in academic and popular press. His work has taken him in most regions of the world, and he is regularly involved in projects with international organizations such as UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the Organization of American States or the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, where he was the principal advisor to the Representative on Media Freedom. Joan Barata also has experience as a regulator, as he held the position of Secretary General of the Audiovisual Council of Catalonia in Spain and was member of the Permanent Secretariat of the Mediterranean Network of Regulatory Authorities.
Ian Drake
Ian J. Drake teaches in the Political Science and Law Department at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, United States. He obtained his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Maryland and his law degree from the University of Richmond. His teaching interests include the American judiciary and legal system, the U.S. Supreme Court and constitutional history, the history and contemporary study of law and society, broadly construed, and political theory.
Mariette Jones
Dr Mariette Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Middlesex University London. Her teaching and research interests include freedom of expression, media law, defamation, privacy, and the regulation of online speech. She is the author of a recent monograph on defamation law and has published widely on issues relating to free speech, reputation, and digital governance. Her current research examines the evolving balance between freedom of expression and regulatory intervention in the United Kingdom.
Irini Katsirea
Irini Katsirea is Reader in International Media Law at the University of Sheffield. She is a member of the UK Government’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) College of Experts, and an Expert Fellow of the SPRITE+ (Security, Privacy, Identity and Trust in the Digital Economy) Engagement Network. Her research interests are in the area of International and Comparative Media Law and Policy. She is the author of Press Freedom and Regulation in a Digital Era: A Comparative Study (OUP, 2024), Public Broadcasting and European Law. A Comparative Examination of Public Service Obligations in Six Member States (Kluwer, 2008) and of Cultural Diversity and European Integration in Conflict and in Harmony (Athens, Ant. N. Sakkoulas, 2001). She studied at the Free University of Berlin, at the University of Leicester and at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Her forthcoming collaborative research project is ‘Polinoculate: Inoculating and coaching policymakers to resist disinformation’ (Horizon, 2026-29). Her previous research projects include ‘Unreliable science: Unravelling the impact of mainstream media misrepresentation’ (2024-26), funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation European Media and Information Fund, and ‘Fact-checked – Understanding the Factors Behind Direct Fact-Check Rejection’, funded by SPRITE+ (EPSRC) (2024-25).
Christopher Marsden
Christopher Marsden is Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Technology and the Law, and Director of the Digital Law Group at Monash. He serves on the ARC College of Experts 2024-26. He was appointed a Fellow of Columbia CITI in 2024, Research Associate at GLOCOM (Tokyo) since 2008, Fellow of the Open Forum Europe since 2017. He has been since 2020 a research affiliate of the PILOT Lab at Penn State University. He served as Associate Director, Global Governance, 2023-4 of the Monash Data Futures Institute (MDFI). He served as Area Chair of ACM FAccT, and is on the editorial board of several major international journals and conferences (including NeurIPS ML).
Chris researches regulation by code – whether legal, software or social code. He has authored 5 research monographs (Cambridge UP, Routledge, MIT Press, Bloomsbury, Manchester UP), 2 edited collections that pioneered interdisciplinary examination of Internet law (Routledge, Hart), over 60 refereed articles and scholarly book chapters, 11 monograph length refereed reports commissioned by international organisations, and over 100 other articles and research reports. He frequently advises governments and IGOs on digital human rights, telecoms and broadcast regulatory law, and AI law and policy, and has done so for over 25 years.He has been a Research Fellow in the USA (Harvard, USC), Japan (GLOCOM, Keio), Australia (UniMelb, UNSW), Brazil (FGV) and UK (Cambridge, Oxford CSLS).
Zsolt Ződi
Zsolt Ződi is a research professor at the Institute of the Information Society, Ludovika University of Public Service. He graduated as a lawyer, and worked as a publishing professional in different positions in legal publishing and IT companies until 2011. In 2012 he earned a PhD in legal informatics. Since then, he was associate professor in University of Miskolc, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, and Corvinus University Budapest teaching legal theory and infocommunication law. At this period he led computational legal lingusitics, and other legal text-mining projects, and wrote several articles on the role of precedents in the Hungarian courts. Since his appointment to the Institute, his main research field is the regulation of information society, including internet platforms and AI, and use of LegalTech. His book entitled Platform law was published in 2023. Zsolt is the author of three books, and more than 100 articles.
