Luc Desaunettes-Barbero
Luc Desaunettes-Barbero is a post-doctoral researcher at CRIDES (UClouvain, Belgium) and a member of CEIPI research department (University of Strasbourg, France). He is also currently a lecturer in IP law at the University of Saint Louis (Belgium) and at the MIPLC (Germany) as well as in competition law at the SciencePo Strasbourg and the University of Strasbourg (France).
His research agenda focuses primarily on IP, touching upon questions related to trade secrets (i.e., PhD on the justifications and optimal shaping of the protection), patent law (i.e., coordination of an international group of scholars on the Unitary Patent Package, publications related the patentability of de-extinct species, proportionally of injunctive relief, SPC, SEP) and copyright law (i.e., Study for the EU Commission on the impact of AI technologies). His work also covers more transversal questions, such as the legal appropriation of / access to data, the effect of the processes of internationalisation (i.e., TRIPS flexibility clauses) and Europeanisation (i.e., harmonisation impact, the role of the ECJ), or the relationship between IP protection and climate change and, more generally, with fundamental rights.
Next to IP law, he also engages with Competition law (i.e., publication of two general monographs on articles 101 and 102 TFEU), and he is extending the scope of his research to legal issues arising in the frame of the platform economy (i.e., legal handling of ratings and review, disinformation).
Link to linkedin, ORCID, accademia
Courses :
USL-B
- HDDR1360 - Intellectual Property Law, Saint Louis Bruxelles
UCLouvain
- LDRHD2203, Droit européen appronfondi
- LEURO1305, Introduction au droit de l'Union européenne
- LEUSL2023, EU internal market law
Other
- Copyright Law in Practice, Munich, MIPLC
- Competition Law, Université de Strasbourg, SciencePo Strasbourg
Jean De Meyere
Jean De Meyere is a PhD student at CRIDES and a researcher at the Centre for IT and IP (CiTiP) at KU Leuven. He is preparing a thesis on the regulation of disinformation on online platforms. His thesis focuses on multi-stakeholder regulation and transparency as key principles to curb online disinformation while preserving fundamental rights. At the CRIDES, he is involved in the REMEDIS ("REgulatory and other solutions to MitigatE online DISinformation") and the LED (“Law, Emotion, Disinformation”) projects.
He graduated from the Law Faculty of UCLouvain in 2019 before working as a transfer pricing consultant with PwC Belgium. In February 2020, he joinded Computer Task Group (CTG) as a data privacy consultant, before joining CRIDES in April 2022.
He focuses on ICT law, platform regulation, privacy and artificial intelligence.
Publications
- Tom Buytaert, Jean De Meyere, Arrêt “Meta Platforms”: violation du RGPD constitutive d’un abus de position dominante, 9(2023) Journal de droit européen, 449.
- Alain Strowel, Jean De Meyere, The Digital Services Act: transparency as an efficient tool to curb the spread of disinformation on online platforms?, 14 (2023) JIPITEC 66 para 1.
Pierre-Yves Thoumsin
Pierre-Yves Thoumsin is a lawyer at the Brussels bar since 2008 and specialised in intellectual property law. After working with a number of international law firms, he founded Prioux Culot + Partners, where he heads the IP practice.
He has a law degree from UCLouvain and an LLM in IP law (KU Leuven). He has been a research associate at CRIDES since 2019. He has also taught intellectual rights as part of practical work at the Université libre de Bruxelles and during the initial training of trainee lawyers at the Brussels Bar.
Pierre-Yves is particularly interested in trademarks, designs and copyright.
His biography and publications can be viewed on his LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pythoumsin/.
Colombe de Callataÿ
Colombe de Callataÿ is a company lawyer and teaching assistant in legal methodology at UCLouvain Saint-louis Brussels.
She obtained a bilingual law degree from Saint-Louis and the HUB, a master's degree at UCL and an LL.M in European law at Maastricht.
After publishing her thesis on the liability of online intermediaries, she joined the intellectual property law department of NautaDutilh, where she worked as a lawyer for 7 years, mainly in litigation cases involving copyright and trademark law.
She currently works as company lawyer in one of the largest Brussels companies active in mobility, STIB, where she advices various teams, among others for questions relating to intellectual property rights and open data regulations.
She works as an assistant at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels since 2018. She helps students in their first exercises of legal research and writing. She also coaches students in moot court exercises in intellectual property rights.
Her biography and publications can be viewed on her page : Linkedin
Courses :
- DROI1130 - Séminaire de méthodologie juridique
Enguerrand Marique
Dr. Enguerrand Marique is a guest lecturer at UCLouvain. He teaches new technology law (Law and Tech Governance on the Brussels campus, and Digital Law and EU Clinics on Digital Rights on the Louvain-la-Neuve campus).
After completing a master's degree in law at UCLouvain and a LLM in international commercial law in California, in 2021 Dr. Enguerrand Marique defended a thesis on digital platform law entitled "Building Trust in Digital Platforms via legal tools: new roles and new responsabilities for public authorities and private entities".
Since 2020, dr. Enguerrand Marique has also been a universitair docent (tenured assistant professor) at Radboud University (NL), where he teaches Digital Single Market Law and Digital Dispute Resolution modules.
A first stream of his current research analyses how conflicts arise on platforms and from interactions on platforms (notably in the framework of the DSA). A second stream of his research examines how the digital ecosystem enables limiting the recourse to judicial systems by facilitating norms enforcement. The third stream of his research builds on these first two pillars. It examines how the process of solving conflicts with the help of algorithms can improve fairness, justice and efficiency.
Dr. Enguerrand Marique is always open to new collaborations, and you can contact him via his corporate e-mail address.
Courses :
USL-B
UCLouvain
- LDREU2202, Politiques européennes
- LDRHD2205, Questions approfondies de droit de l’entreprise
- LDROI2112, Digital Law
- LDROP2041, International Business Agreements
- LDROP2104, Clinic on European Digital Rights, Law, and Design
- LEUSL2113, Digital Europe
Alain Strowel
Alain Strowel is professor at the UCLouvain where he teaches intellectual property, IT and media law. He also gives courses in two advanced masters in intellectual property and IT law at the Munich IP Law Center and the University of Alicante (Magister Lucentinus). In 2020-2021, he was fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (Berlin). In 2023-2024, he was visiting professor at Macquarie University (Sydney).
Alain is also an attorney at the Brussels bar since 1988 and arbiter for the WIPO domain names dispute resolution system. He has been appointed as a trustee of the European Law Academy (ERA, Trier, 2012-2019) and was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2012. Since 2019, he chairs the Intellectual Property working group of All European Academies (ALLEA) to which he contributed since 2012. Alain graduated in law, economics and philosophy at the UCLouvain and the University of Amsterdam. He holds a PhD in Law from UCLouvain. Today his research focuses on data and Artificial Intelligence governance, as well as the regulation of online platforms.
Courses :
USL-B
- BCOMU1314, Droit de l'information et de la communication, ,
- BDROI1261, Droit de la propriété intellectuelle,
- BDROI1272, Questions spéciales de droit économique,
UCLouvain
- LDROI2100, Séminaire d'accompagnement du mémoire en droits intellectuels et du numérique,
- LDROI2112, Digital Law,
- LDROP2102, Droits intellectuels et nouvelles technologies,
- LDROP2104, Clinic on European Digital Rights, Law, and Design
- LEUSL2113, Digital Europe
Link to LinkedIn
Anne-Lise Sibony
Anne-Lise Sibony has been teaching European law at UCLouvain since 2015. Her areas of expertise are the European internal market law, competition law and consumer law. Her research has always been interdisciplinary, from her thesis on the Courts and economic reasoning, in which she examined how competition case law integrates economic reasoning, to her current work on behavioural science and its interplay with the law. Anne-Lise began her academic career after studying law and economics in Paris (where she comes from). She studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) and obtained a Master on Regulation from the London School of Economics. With Alberto Alemanno, she co-directed the first book that analyzes the contributions of behavioral sciences to European law (Nudge and the Law: A European Perspective, Hart, 2015). She publishes regularly contributions on internal market and consumer law. Anne-Lise is also a visiting professor at KULeuven where she teaches the course “Behavioral Sciences and the Law”.
Courses :
UCLouvain
- LDREU2206, EU Internal Market Law
- LDREU2207, Droit européen de la consommation
- LDROI2150, Méthodologie de la recherche en droit
Gaëlle Fruy
Gaëlle Fruy obtained her bachelor’s degree in law at the Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles in 2010 and her master’s degree in law at the Université Catholique de Louvain in 2012. She then enrolled at the Brussels bar where she practiced in the fields of commercial law, consumer protection, intellectual property, as well as new technologies law. She also pursued a complementary master’s degree in new technologies and intellectual property law from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven during this time, which she obtained in 2015. Gaëlle then joined the Private Law Center of the University of Saint-Louis – Brussels as an assistant professor in law of obligations. Her research covers civil and commercial contracts, consumer law as well as civil liability law. In 2020, she was admitted to the doctoral program in legal sciences with the research theme “The relevance and effectiveness of classic consumerist protections in light of the reality of connected and ‘intelligent’ objects” under the supervision of the professors Catherine Delforge and Alain Strowel.
Courses :
USL-B
- MHUB1280N - Verbintenissenrecht
Diana Mocanu
Diana Mocanu is a master’s degree graduate in European Law from „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași, former trainee at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, former Senior Compliance Associate at Amazon Development Centre Iasi, Romania and keen on issues at the intersection of artificial intelligence and law. She is currently pursuing her PhD under the guidance of Prof. Christophe Lazaro, in the framework of the research project titled ‘Beyond persons and things: the legal status of AI’. Her proposal contends that to systematize the arguments in favor and against the three courses of action that the law could take as to AI (namely, granting personhood, reinforcing thinghood or creating a sui generis legal status) and to contribute new ones is what is needed in order to reach the goal of outlining a ‘portrait-robot’ of what the legal status of AI should look like in the EU.
Quentin Fontaine
Quentin Fontaine has been a research associate at CRIDES since 2022. His research focuses on the EU's data strategy. He is also a lawyer at the Brussels bar in Baker McKenzie's IPTech department, where his practice focuses on personal data protection, telecommunications and e-commerce.
He gave some classes within the courses Clinic on European Digital Rights, Law, and Design and Intellectual Property Rights and New Technologies.
François Wéry
Courses :
UCLouvain
- LDROP2101 – Management of Intellectual Property Rights
Vincent Cassiers
Lawyer at Sybarius Avocats in Brussels as well as a lecturer at the University of Louvain. He is specialised in the intellectual property field and is the editing secretary of the intellectual property rights journal (Buylant) since 2012.
He graduated in law from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) and he also has a diploma of specialized studies (LLM) in the law and management of information and communication technologies from the University of Namur (CRID-FUNDP). He holds a PhD in law (thesis on the legal protection of business information).
Vincent Cassiers is lecturer at the Université catholique de Louvain and at the Université catholique de Lille. He is professor of intellectual property for the junior lawyers at the Brussels Bar.
In addition to his scientific activities, Vincent Cassiers is the author of various publications in the field of intellectual property and business law.
Notably, and in collaboration with Bernard Remiche, he has written a reference book on Patent law (Droit des brevets d’invention et du savoir-faire. Créer, protéger et partager les inventions au XXIème siècle, Bruxelles, Larcier, 2010, 740 p.).
Vincent Cassiers is secretary of the editorial board of the review « L’Ingénieur-Conseil / Intellectual Property » published by Larcier and member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Economic Law (AIDE).
Courses :
UCLouvain
- LDROI1306, Droits réels et intellectuels
- LDROP2103, Droit des contrats relatifs à la propriété intellectuelle
- LEPL2214, Droit, régulation, contexte juridique
Charles Helleputte
Charles Helleputte heads the EU cybersecurity, data, and privacy practice at Steptoe. Charles provides practical and pragmatic advice to clients faced with increased accountability requirements towards users, helping organizations testing new responses, such as broader use of standards or certification mechanisms across the data lifecycle in a wide range of industries (regulated and not regulated). He is also experienced in representing clients before national and EU supervisory authorities and courts, including the Working Party No. 29 (now the European Data Protection Board). Charles holds a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) certification. He is the co-chair of the Brussels KnowledgeNet Chapter of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and an appointed Legal Expert at ENISA, the European Union Cybersecurity Agency. He plays an active role in the Digital Economy Committee at AmCham EU, which represents interests of American businesses in Europe.
Clément Maertens
Clément Maertens is a doctoral researcher specializing in media and information law and artificial intelligence law. He is currently working on a thesis addressing disinformation and artificial intelligence issues. He holds a Master’s degree in European Law from UCLouvain, obtained in 2022, and a Specialized Master’s degree in Information and Communication Technology Law (now known as Specialized Master’s degree in Digital Law) obtained in 2023 from UNamur. Clément has also served as a legal advisor in the office of the Minister of Culture and Media of the French Community of Belgium.
He is currently involved in the research project Law, Emotion, Disinformation (LED), co-organized by CRIDES (UCLouvain) and CRIDS (UNamur). This project, funded by a Welchange-FNRS grant, aims to study how legal remedies can curb online disinformation based on AI-enabled recognition and exploitation of the users’ emotions.
Link to Linkedin.