Master in Law, Governance & Technology

Delphine Dogot is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law. She researches and teaches in the areas of law and technology, international law and legal philosophy, in particular in relation to global governance, risk and security.

She is the Director of LeStudio, a collaborative and creative digital/law lab and the Academic Director of the Master in Law, Governance & Technology and Winter & Summer and Graduate Diploma in Law and Digital Technologies.

Before joining the Faculty of Law, Delphine Dogot was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Law Department of HEC Paris, an OXPO Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, a Fellow at Sciences Po Law School and a researcher the Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy at ULB where she is an affiliate researcher.

She is regularly invited to teach at Sciences Po Paris, Université Aix-Marseille, HEC Paris, Université Panthéon Assas, Universidad des Los Andes, Université Libre de Bruxelles et Universidad UNISINOS Porto Alegre.

Trained in law and philosophy, Delphine Dogot holds a Ph.D. in Law from Sciences Po Law School, Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Law from Université Panthéon Sorbonne, an M.A in Sociology and B.A. in Philosophy from Université Paris Sorbonne.

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Mónica Arango Olaya is a DPhil in Law Candidate at the Faculty of Law at Oxford University. Her research focuses on sexual harassment in the workplace and the #MeToo movement. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from Los Andes University in Colombia and an LL.M. from Harvard University. She is a Podcaster for the Oxford Human Rights Hub. She was a Graduate Research Resident at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights between 2020 and 2022 and the Editor of Borderlands section of Frontiers of Social Legal Studies blog 2021- 2022.
Before going to Oxford she was Deputy Justice at the Colombian Constitutional Court and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Mónica has taught as a Lecturer Public Interest Law Procedure at the Faculty of Law at Los Andes University in Colombia as well as Access to Justice for Women and International Law at FLACSO Argentina. She has also tutored Public International Law, Human Rights and Law and Society at Oxford University.

Alejandra Azuero-Quijano is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Swarthmore. She works at the intersection of law and anthropology. Her research examines the role of legal knowledge in political transition. Her first book manuscript, Redesigning Crime, investigates the relation between design, criminal liability, and forensics. Her current book project, Forensics of Finance, examines the role of financial forensic expertise in shaping Colombia’s most recent political transition. Azuero-Quijano holds an SJD from Harvard Law School and a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Her academic writing is published in Grey Room and PoLAR. Her essays and poetry have appeared in AlJazeera and New American Writing, among others.

Othmane Benlafkih is an associate at Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes, specializing in commercial and investment arbitration. He previously served as Counsel (Team Supervisor) at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC).

He completed an LL.M. at Harvard Law School, earning distinction as a Dean’s Scholar, and an LL.B. at the University of Hong Kong as a Lee Shau Kee Scholar. Othmane has been contributing his expertise as a teacher and expert for the Commercial Law Development Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce since 2019. He is qualified in New York.

Ignacio Cofone is the Canada Research Chair in AI Law & Data Governance at McGill University Faculty of Law, where he teaches Privacy Law and AI Regulation, and an Affiliated Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project. His research explores how law should adapt to AI-driven social and economic change with a focus on data harms and algorithmic decision-making. He is the author of “The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy” (Cambridge University Press 2023).

Samuel Dahan is an associate professor of law at Queen’s University and an Adjunct Professor at Cornell Law School. He is the Director of the Conflict Analytics Lab, a consortium for AI research on law and conflict resolution. He is the Chief of Policy at Deel and the Chair of the Deel Lab for Global Employment, a policy institute on global work. Dahan served as a Cabinet Minister (Referendaire) at the Court of Justice of the European Union and Policy Advisor at the EU Commission.
Dahan is leading the development of MyOpenCourt and OpenJustice, two AI legal systems. He is the recipient of both the 2021 Stanley M. Corbett Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the 2020 INFORMS UPS Prize for best program in analytics and AI.
Dahan’s research has been published in such journals as the International Journal of Economic Law; McGill Law Journal; European Labour Law Journal; Industrial Law Journal; Journal of Law and AI; AAAI; and ICML. His work has been featured in Business Insider, Global News, Bloomberg, Semafore, Børsen and HR.com.
Dahan clerked for the French Administrative Supreme Court (Conseil d’Etat), as well as serving as a Cabinet Member at the Court of Justice of the European Union and as a policy advisor at the EU Commission. During the financial crisis of 2008, he acted as an advisor to the financial assistance program in Latvia. Dahan has also been an affiliate faculty member at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.
Dahan holds a doctorate from the University of Cambridge. He has studied law and dispute resolution at Harvard Law School; the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS-Ulm); the Sorbonne; Leuven University in Belgium; and the University of Nice. He was a bronze medalist at the French and UK championships in kickboxing and Taekwondo.

Alexandre DUMERY is an Associate Professor of Private Law – HDR from Aix-Marseille University after having defended a thesis in 2007 on the victim’s fault in civil liability law. He has been a permanent lecturer at the faculty since 2009, director since 2014 of the Master 1 in business law in work-study program and of the Master 2 in business law and corporate risk management in a work-study program (BLCRM) in the Issy-les-Moulineaux Campus and member of C3RD. He teaches civil law (law of obligations) and commercial law (law of companies in difficulty). His areas of research are mainly civil liability law, in particular compensation for damage caused by new forms of mobility and the law of companies in difficulty. At the same time, he is preparing his HDR within the LARJ (EA 3603) of the Littoral-Côte d´Opale University.

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Mail: alexandre.dumery@univ-catholille.fr

Arthur Dyevre is a professor at KU Leuven, where he leads the Centre for Empirical Jurisprudence. He pursues a multidisciplinary research program on judicial institutions, legal integration in Europe, and automated analysis of legal texts. His work has been published in notable journals, including the American Journal of Comparative Law, Artificial Intelligence and Law, European Journal of Law & Economics, European Union Politics, International Review of Law & Economics, Journal of European Public Policy, The Review of International Organizations, and Leiden Journal of International Law.
He has taught judicial decision analysis, legal AI, legal theory, and empirical legal methods at the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Toulouse-Capitole, the Brussels School of Competition, Venice International University, and the Catholic University of Lille. He is the author of “The Future of Legal Theory and the Law School of the Future” (Intersentia, 2015) and “Constitutional Reasoning in Comparative Perspective” (with András Jakab and Giulio Itzkovich, Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Arthur Dyevre has organized the first two CELS-Europe conferences (2016 and 2018) and is a pioneer of empirical legal research in Europe. He led the ERC EUTHORITY project (www.euthority.eu) and is currently working on the cognitive style of judges in comparative law (COMPASS Project).

Charlotte Emin specialises in European competition law and is a member of the Paris and New York bars.
After studying at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), she obtained her law degrees from the Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris II Panthéon-Assas Universities, as well as an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.
She began her career in one of the biggest US business law firm in Brussels, where she defended cases at the European Commission and represented Google in several jurisdictions.
Since 2016, she has been a legal secretary at the General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg, where she deals with competition and state aid cases.
She has published several articles in specialist journals and magazines on European competition law, including on interim measures in the antitrust field.

Dr Katherine Fallah is a barrister and legal scholar based in Australia. At the Sydney bar, she maintains a mixed practice with a focus on human rights, discrimination, international law, inquests and appellate crime. As a legal scholar she specialises in public international law and criminal law. Her research is principally concerned with the global regulation and administration of violence, and she has particular expertise in the law relating to mercenaries and private military contractors. In addition to her appointment as a visiting professor at l’Université catholique de Lille, she lectures in international humanitarian law and international criminal law at the Australian National University.

Katherine holds a PhD in international law from the University of Sydney, and before her call to the bar was a member of Faculty at Sydney Law School and UTS. She has held visiting fellowships and doctoral research positions at Harvard Law School, the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, the Paris Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, and the European University Institute, Florence. Her earlier professional appointments include Prosecution Officer at the NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and Research Associate to the Judges of the Federal Court of Australia.

Katherine is the recipient of several international prizes including the Prix Jean-Pictet for International Humanitarian Law and the Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on Gender for Human Rights, and in 2019 she was the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow with the ARC Laureate Program in International Law at Melbourne Law School.

Nathan Genicot is a researcher at the Perelman Center for Legal Philosophy (Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB). His research focuses on the transformations that law and regulatory techniques are undergoing as a result of the digitization and globalization of our societies. In particular, he studies profiling and rating systems and their history. In addition to being a Visiting Professor at the Université Catholique de Lille, he teaches at the ULB, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas.

Mehdi Ghassemi is a teacher-researcher at the Institut des stratégies et techniques de communication (ISTC) and a researcher at ETHICS EA 7446 (Université catholique de Lille) – CEThicS. He studies the link between the gaze and power within contemporary visual cultures, in particular the ways in which the ‘surveillance gaze’ is normalised, interrogated or resisted in various products of popular culture, but also in artistic experiments that deal with surveillance as an object of representation (surveillance art).

Mireille Hildebrandt is a Research Professor on ‘Interfacing Law and Technology’ at Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), appointed by the VUB Research Council. She has been co-Director of the Research Group on Law Science Technology and Society studies (LSTS) at the Faculty of Law and Criminology from 2019-2024.
She also holds the part-time Chair of Smart Environments, Data Protection and the Rule of Law at the Science Faculty, at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS) at Radboud University Nijmegen.
Her research interests concern the implications of automated decisions, machine learning and mindless artificial agency for law and the rule of law in constitutional democracies.
Hildebrandt has published 5 scientific monographs, 23 edited volumes or special issues, and over 120 chapters and articles in scientific journals and volumes.
She received an ERC Advanced Grant for her project on ‘Counting as a Human Being in the era of Computational Law’ (20,19-2024) for COHUBICOL. In that context, she is co-founder of the international peer reviewed Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Research in Computational Law, together with Laurence Diver (co-Editor in Chief is Frank Pasquale).

Iga Kurowska holds a PhD in law from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is the Head of Innovation at the Karnov Group (Southern Region), Europe’s leading provider of legal information and software. Former founder of a legaltech start-up, she regularly lectures students and professionals on how innovation can improve the practice of law.

Zacharie Laïk is a member of the New York Bar and holds a « Certificat d’Aptitude à la Profession d’Avocat » (CAPA). He has been a lecturer at the Université Catholique de Lille since 2022. He also holds an LL.M. from the Northwestern University and a Master’s degree in Business Law from the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. His keen interest in the development of new technologies in the legal field has led him to devote himself to integrating artificial intelligence into the teaching of law. Founder of goodlegal.fr, he is developing a platform that facilitates access to AI-assisted legal information, benefiting a growing community of over 20,000 law professionals and students. His work, between law and technology, aims to experiment the use of artificial intelligence to modernise legal working methods.

Sonia Le Gouriellec holds a PhD in Political Science (International Relations) and is a lecturer at the Catholic University of Lille (Faculty of Law). She was previously a researcher at the Strategic Research Institute of the Military Academy (IRSEM) of the French Ministry of Defence, in charge of sub-Saharan Africa.  She teaches at Sciences Po Paris (Reims campus, Eurafrique programme) and is also an associate researcher at the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d’étude du politique Hannah Arendt (LIPHA) – Université Paris-Est. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for War and Strategy Studies and co-leader of the “Comparative Extra-Western Approaches” group.

In 2017, she coordinated a book “Is our world more dangerous?” (Armand Colin) gathering about twenty contributions. A specialist in security studies, her work focuses on peace and security issues in Africa, particularly in the Horn of Africa, foreign policies and strategies of small states. In March 2020, she published the book “Djibouti: la diplomatie de géant d’un petit Etat” (Presses universitaires du Septentrion). She has published in International Affairs, International Studies, Contemporary Africa, etc.

She runs the blog “https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjfrJm–_brAhVDJBoKHTcrB_0QFjAAegQIARAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgoodmorningafrika.blogspot.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw2iksinTDC1KRLuyZXHIr7B”>Good Morning Afrika” and hosts the @MorningAfrika page on Twitter.

David Liang is the Program Manager at the Conflict Analytics Lab and the Operations Manager at the Deel Lab for Global Employment. He earned a J.D. from Queen’s Law, where he contributed as a student director at the Conflict Analytics Lab. Before rejoining the Conflict Analytics Lab in 2022, David gained experience articling at a tax law firm in Toronto.

His academic achievements include receiving the Global Law Scholarship and the Torkin Manes LLP Award for his academic performance and commitment to community service. David’s research, focusing on the intersection of law and technology, has been published in respected journals and presented at conferences such as the Queen’s Law Journal and the International Conference on Machine Learning. He has also been invited as a speaker on the future of legal technology at the Washington State Bar Association and the New York Statewide Civil Legal Aid Technology Conference.

David has significantly contributed to the development of MyOpenCourt, particularly in the legal research that supports its predictive legal tools, including a worker classification algorithm now part of Deel’s compliance hub. He also manages the operations of the OpenJustice project, coordinating research efforts with legal clinics and universities worldwide, demonstrating his dedication to improving legal processes and outcomes through technology.

Camila Pérez Lagos is a teacher & researcher at the Institut des stratégies et techniques de communication (ISTC) and a researcher at ETHICS EA 7446 (Université Catholique de Lille) – CEThicS. After studying the digital communication of state-funded theatres in France and Chile (doctoral research 2012-2016), since 2017 she has been interested in surveillance in the digital regime, understood as a public problem. Her latest work focuses on the Cambridge Analytica scandal and its consequences on the way public opinion deals with issues related to personal data and privacy online.

Lawyer of the Paris Bar and a partner at Squair, Eric Seassaud specialises in ethics and compliance, international arbitration, international contracts, major industrial and construction projects (financing, construction contracts, operation and maintenance contracts, joint ventures, consortium contracts, sureties and guarantees, export financing, etc.) and contract and claims management.
Prior to joining Squair, Eric held a number of legal director positions in listed groups, including Director of Legal and Contracts at VINCI Construction Grands Projets and ethics coordinator for the entities in VINCI Construction’s Major Projects Division (2018-2021), Director of Legal Ethics and Compliance at the Engie Group (2011-18), Director of Contract Management and Arbitration at SUEZ (formerly Degrémont – 2009-2011), and Deputy Legal Director for Major Projects at SUEZ (formerly Degrémont – 2003-2009).

Eric is also heavily involved in a number of professional associations: Vice-President and co-founder of the French Contract Management Association (AFCM), Chairman of the AFNOR French Technical Committee on “Compliance and Governance of Organisations – ISO TC 309” and French Foreign Trade Advisor.
Eric holds a doctorate in law, a specialised master’s degree in international business law and management from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP), a postgraduate diploma in public business law and a diploma from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence.

o Robert Spear is a data professional with experience in data science and analysis. He has worked as a data analyst at Bell Canada (a large telecommunications company) and Workleap (a software development company). He works on data-driven insights to inform strategic decisions by leveraging data science models that help better understand customer behaviour. Before joining Workleap, Robertcompleted a BComm in Finance and Information Systems from McGill University.

Pauline Trouillard is a researcher in Media Law in the European Union and American law.
She holds a PhD in Comparative Public Law from Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas. Her thesis focused on public service broadcasting in the Member States of the European Union.
She was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and Researcher in Residence at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
Her current research focuses on the moderation of content on social networks in American and European law, and on the business model of platforms.

Dr. François Delerue is an Assistant Professor of International Law at IE University and a member of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for Law and Automation (Lawtomation). He is also an Associate Fellow of The Hague Program on International Cyber Security and the GEODE Center (Paris 8 University). Dr. Delerue conducts research focusing predominantly on the application of international law to cyberspace. More broadly, he is interested in how new technologies and activities (space activities, cyber, robotics and artificial intelligence) challenge international law and international relations. His book ‘Cyber Operations and International Law’ was published by Cambridge University Press in 2020 and was awarded the 2021 Book Prize of the European Society for International Law.

Prior to joining IE University, Dr. Delerue worked as a Senior Researcher in Cybersecurity Governance at Leiden University and as a Research Fellow in Cyberdefense and International Law at the Institute for Strategic Research (Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’École Militaire – IRSEM, Paris, France) of the French Ministry of Defense.

He holds a Master of Laws from the Sorbonne Law School (Paris 1 University), an LL.M. in Comparative, European and International Laws from the European University Institute (EUI, Florence, Italy) and a Ph.D. in Law from the EUI.

Yann is seasoned expert on intellectual property having worked for large corporations such as Orange, Intel and today Atos, and also some public R&D organizations, an international open source consortium and a sovereign patent investment fund (France Brevets). In Atos Yann and his team are managing all intellectual property at Atos, patents, software, trade secrets and trademarks and are getting more and more involved in new form of intellectual property and legal issues around data and AI. He is also an international expert for GPAI (Global Partnership on AI) on IP related matters.