CEL Annual Lecture - EU Law and New Technologies

Centre of European Law

Annual Lecture - EU law and New Technologies by Advocate General Maciej Szpunar, ECJ

Edmond Safra Lecture Theatre

Centre of European Law The Dickson Poon School of Law Annual Lecture EU Law and New Technologies by Advocate General Maciej Szpunar, European Court of JusticeProfessor Sir Francis Jacobs QC, KCMG in the ChairThis lecture will look specific and important issues around this subject including the operating of internet platforms and the concept of "territoriality " in EU LawAbout the Speaker - Advocate General Maciej Szpunar, European Court of JusticeBorn 1971; degrees in law from the University of Silesia and the College of Europe, Bruges; Doctor of Law (2000); habilitated Doctor in Legal Science (2009); Professor of Law (2013); Visiting Scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge (1998), the University of Liège (1999) and the European University Institute, Florence (2003); lawyer (2001-08), member of the Committee for Private International Law of the Civil Law Codification Commission under the Ministry of Justice (2001-08); member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of European Law, Trier (from 2008); member of the Research Group on Existing EC Private Law (‘Acquis Group') (from 2006); Undersecretary of State in the Office of the Committee for European Integration (2008-09), then in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2010-13); Vice-Chairman of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Justice; Agent of the Polish Government in a large number of cases before the European Union judicature; member of the editorial board of a number of legal journals; author of numerous publications in the fields of European law and private international law; Advocate General at the Court of Justice since 23 October 2013.