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Alexandros Kazimirov,
Amedeo Rizzo, Irene Kamara,
Marie-Andrée Weiss,
Zihao Li

Editor-in-chief: Juha Vesala

Antitrust

United States

Athletes, Ivies and the NCAA

United States v. Google: Predictions Before the Showdown

Franchise Agreements: The Case for Limited Non-Compete Clauses

FTC & DOJ Review of Merger Guidelines 2023

Law School Boycotts and the Sherman Act

Intellectual Property

United States

AI, Face Swapping, and Right of Publicity

Other Developments

United States

SEC’s First Enforcement Case under Regulation Best Interest

European Union

Cyberstalking and Online Platforms’ Due Diligence in the EU Digital Services Act

EU Adoption of DAC 8 – Mandatory Exchange of Information between Tax Authorities on Crypto Assets

Large Language Models and the EU AI Act: the Risks from Stochastic Parrots and Hallucination

About the contributors

Alexandros Kazimirov is an attorney admitted to practice in California. He studied civil law in Cyprus and Athens (Greece), has received an LL.M. from Berkeley Law School with a concentration in Securities Regulation and a Certificate in Regulatory & Antitrust Law from Cornell Law School. During his studies, he clerked at the Court of Justice of the European Union. He serves on the Intellectual Property Committee of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association and the Securities Litigation Section of the San Francisco Bar Association. His research examines the approach taken by the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate digital asset markets compared to the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation. He has been a TTLF Fellow since September 2023.

Amedeo Rizzo is a D.Phil. in Law and Academic Tutor at the University of Oxford, UK, where he conducts research in taxation, innovation, and development. He is an Academic Fellow of Taxation at Bocconi University, Italy, and SDA Fellow of Tax and Accounting at SDA Bocconi School of Management, where he coordinates the Accounting & Tax Policy Observatory and the Transfer Pricing Forum. He is the director of the Innovation Policy Network and a member of the Group of Experts on anti-corruption for Transparency International Italy. As a TTLF Fellow, his research focuses on the analysis of different types of tax incentives to enhance innovation through intellectual property and research and development activities. Previously, he worked for the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) of the European Commission as an external advisor on budget and tax policy, and for the International Tax and Transfer Pricing Team of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Milan. He also collaborated with the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, India, on financial transparency issues in Asia-Pacific countries. Prior to his D.Phil. in Law at the University of Oxford, Amedeo obtained an M.Sc. in Taxation from the University of Oxford (distinction), an M.Sc. in Business Administration and Law (summa cum laude) and a B.Sc. in Business Administration, both from Bocconi University.

Irene Kamara (Dr.) is Assistant Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society in The Netherlands. Her research focuses on the protection of human rights in the digital environment, and substantive and procedural aspects of cybercrime. Irene is teaching cybercrime and cybersecurity law, legal aspects of technical standardization, and international personal data flows at master and bachelor programs. Irene has previously worked as legal researcher at the Law and Criminology Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and as attorney-at-law in law firms in Athens, Greece. She has conducted research as principal investigator for the European Cybersecurity Agency ENISA, the European Commission, the National Cyber Security Agency (NCSC) and the National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) in The Netherlands. She holds a joint PhD in law from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the University of Tilburg (2021), a LL.M. in Law and Technology from the University of Tilburg (2014), a MSc in International and European Studies from the University of Piraeus in Greece (2013), and a Bachelor of Laws from the Demokritus University of Thrace in Greece. In 2021, CEN and CENELEC honoured Irene with the prestigious Standards + Innovation award for the category Individual Researcher Innovator, the first legal scholar to receive this award. Irene has been a TTLF Fellow since 2022.

Marie-Andrée Weiss is an attorney admitted in New York and in Strasbourg, France. Before becoming an attorney, she worked for several years in the fashion and cosmetics industry in New York as a buyer and a director of sales and marketing. She graduated from the University of Strasbourg in France with an M.A. in Art History, a J.D. in Business Law, an LL.M. in Criminal Law, and an LL.M. in Multimedia Law. Marie-Andrée also graduated from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City with an LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law. She is an attorney in New York and her solo practice focuses on intellectual property, privacy, data protection, and social media law.Zihao Li is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law and Technology at CREATe Centre, School of Law, University of Glasgow, UK. He has been a TTLF Fellow at Stanford Law School since 2023. Meanwhile, he has been invited as a Guest Lecturer to Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Zihao is qualified in both Computer Science and Law. With his interdisciplinary background, his research interests concentrate on the intersection of law, data and information technology. Recently, his research mainly includes data protection law, AI and regulation, algorithmic pricing, Internet and intellectual property, and blockchain and law. Zihao’s research has been published in top-tier interdisciplinary academic journals, conference proceedings and books, including Nature Machine Intelligence, Computer Law and Security Review, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE International Conference on Communications, and European Data Protection Law Review. His research has been cited around the world. He has also spoken at several prestigious universities, including the University of Cambridge, UK, and King’s College London (KCL), UK. Zihao has been awarded the Modern Law Review (MLR) Scholarship operated by the LSE. Additionally, Zihao is a co-founder of the Scottish Law and Innovation Network (SCOTLIN), and the founding president of the Intellectual Property Society at the University of Glasgow. At Stanford Law School, Zihao principally investigates data privacy issues in algorithmic pricing within the EU and US.

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