Prof. dr Mireille van Eechoud is Dean of Amsterdam Law School and holds a chair in information law at the University of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law. She chairs the Dutch group of ALAI and the Dutch government’s Advisory Committee on Copyright. Her specializations include international and EU copyright law, private international law, freedom of information and data access regulation.

Bernt Hugenholtz is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Amsterdam and former Director of the Institute for Information Law (IViR). He is an expert in international and European copyright law, and an honorary member of the Vereniging voor Auteursrecht, the Dutch ALAI society.

Bernd Justin Jütte is Associate Professor in Intellectual Property Law at University College Dublin’s Sutherland School of Law. His research interest center around digital aspects of copyright law, in particular at the intersection of copyright exceptions and fundamental rights. and the regulation of online speech on platforms through copyright norms and other normative frameworks.

Gemma Minero is Associate Professor of Civil Law at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she coordinates the LLM in IP and the LLM in Legal Advice in AI. Her thesis was awarded with the Spanish Congress of Deputies Award. She is member of the Spanish IP Commission.

Irini Stamatoudi is a Professor and the Director of the School of Law at the University of Nicosia, Athens UNIC (Greece). She is also an attorney-at-law. She has served as General Director of the Greek National Copyright Office. She has worked as a copyright expert on projects and taught academic courses in many countries.

Prof Paul Torremans is professor of Intellectual Property Law, School of law, University of Nottingham (UK).
His research focuses on IP and private international law, as well as the relationship between IP and Human Rights (P. Torremans (ed), Intellectual Property Law and Human Rights, Kluwer Law International (5th ed, 2026).

Adela (Zhixuan) Wang is a Herchel Smith PhD candidate at Queen Mary University of London and her current research focuses on legal transplants and harmonisation of the parody exception in copyright law.

Peter Teunissen is Assistant Professor, Radboud University (Nijmegen) and specialises in intellectual property law. His work covers mainly copyright, trademark and design law, unfair competition, and their interaction with European Union law and fundamental rights. He wrote his PhD thesis on injunctions and proportionality in intellectual property law.

Jane C. Ginsburg, U. Chicago (BA 1976, MA 1977), Harvard (JD 1980) Université de Paris II (DEA 1985, Dott. 1995) is the Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia University School of Law. She writes about domestic and international copyright and trademarks law.

Severine Dusollier is Professor at Sciences Po Paris, holds a Senior Chair at the Institut Universitaire de France, and is a Qualified Member of the CSPLA (French Copyright Council). Her research deals with authorship, contractual protection and remuneration of authors and performers, AI and copyright, copyright limitations and commons.

Axel METZGER is Professor of Civil and Intellectual Property Law, Humboldt-University, Berlin.

After studies in law in Hamburg, Paris, Munich and Harvard, he was professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover before entering the law faculty of Humboldt-University in 2014. Axel has served as Dean of the Humboldt-University Law Faculty from 2022-2024. His research focuses on intellectual property, information technology and general contract law.

Bartolomeo Meletti is the Head of Knowledge Exchange of CREATe, the Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy at the University of Glasgow. His expertise and research interest are in the areas of copyright law and the lawful use of existing content, with a focus on copyright exceptions.

Caterina Sganga is Professor of Comparative Private Law and Director of the DIRPOLIS Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa, Italy). She is Former President (2024-2025) of the EPIP Association; Member of the European Copyright Society; author of policy studies for the EU and the Italian legislators; coordinator/PI and work package leaders in several EU-funded Horizon projects in the field of copyright and the law of cultural and creative industries (CCIs). Her key research areas are EU copyright law, IP and new technologies, the balance between IP and human rights, the law and economics of CCIs, data ownership and governance, Open Science law and policies.

Kacper Szkalej is a MSCA Researcher in AI and IP Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen. Prior to joining UiB, he was Assistant Professor in Law and IT at the Law and Informatics Research Institute, Stockholm University and the cross-disciplinary research centre Digital Futures, Assistant Professor of Private Law at Lund University, and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam. He holds a PhD in copyright law from Uppsala University. His research centres primarily on copyright law and covers a wide array of themes such as licensing, technological protection, remuneration schemes, public interest exploitation, machine learning and genAI, open access, enforcement and fundamental rights.

Romana Matanovac Vuckovic, Full Professor at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law; Head of the IP Postgraduate Specialist Study. Former Deputy Director General of SIPO; President of Croatia’s Copyright Experts Council; President of the EU Council Audiovisual Working Party during Croatia’s EU Presidency. Expertise: copyright, collective management, audiovisual law, IP policy.

Stef van Gompel is Professor of Intellectual Property at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is also Board member of the Dutch Copyright Supervisory Authority (CvTA), member of the Dutch Copyright Advisory Committee, chief editor of the Dutch copyright journal Auteursrecht and former president of the Dutch national group of AIPPI.

Prof. Clemens Appl is Head of the Center for Intellectual Property, Media and Innovation Law at the University of Krems (Austria) and president of the ALAI Austria. He is a full professor for International, European and Austrian Copyright Law and is Academic Director auf the Data Economy Law LL.M. – Program. He has extensive expertise in the fields of intellectual property and technology law, especially with regard to standardization, software, data economy and open innovation.

Péter Mezei is a professor of law (University of Szeged, Hungary), an honorary adjunct professor (University of Turku, Finland), a chief researcher (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania) and a professor invité (Université Lyon III, France). His focus is on comparative law, and comparative, digital, International and European copyright law.

Sean Flynn is Director of the Centre on Knowledge Governance and Professor of Practice at the Geneva Graduate Institute.  He is a special faculty appointment at American University Washington College of Law, visiting Scholar at the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law (IViR), and Senior Research Associate at the University of Cape Town’s Intellectual Property Unit.

Professor Flynn researches and teaches on the intersection of intellectual property, international law, and human rights. Professor Flynn designs and manages a wide variety of research and advocacy projects that promote the public interest in intellectual property and information law. Professor Flynn Chairs the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights and is a founding member of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest. He is Editor in Chief of Infojustice.org, a leading public interest law and policy blog. 

Christophe Geiger is Professor of Law at Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, and Director as well as founder of the Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory (ILEO). His research and publications focus on an ethical, human rights-friendly copyright framework for TDM and AI training, including dimensions of moral rights, sustainability goals and the right to research.

Franz Ruz is Vice President of the Interamerican Institute of Copyright (IIDA), Chile. He is a specialist in copyright, media, art and technology law.

Katharina de la Durantaye is professor for private law and law of the digital transformation at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses, among other things, on copyright law, and on the regulation of the digital economy, including AI regulation.

Martin Senftleben is Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. He research and publication activities in the area of TDM and AI training focus on remuneration models for human creative work.

Tatsuhiro Ueno joined Waseda University in 2013, and he is currently Director of both the Research Centre for the Legal System of Intellectual Property (RCLIP) and the Institute of Comparative Law. He is a specialist in copyright law and has published numerous articles on the subject.

Alexander Peukert (pronounce as Poikert) is professor of civil, commercial and information law at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Peukert was chair of the European Copyright Society (2023-2024) and of the working group tasked with drafting the copyright-related rules of the first EU General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (2024-2025).

Alexandra Bensamoun is a Professor of Law at Université Paris-Saclay, specialising in intellectual property and digital regulation. She directs the M2/LLM PIFTN (a joint degree programme with Laval-Québec and Madrid) and has notably published a Treatise on AI Law (LGDJ, 3rd ed., 2026). She is Vice-President of the French group of ALAI and a member of the Executive Committee of the international association. An expert for UNESCO, a qualified member of the CSPLA (the French Ministry of Culture’s Higher Council for Literary and Artistic Property) and a member of the Interministerial Commission on AI (reporting to the President of the French Republic), she has led several missions for the Ministry of Culture on the implementation of the AI Act, the remuneration of cultural content used by AI systems (which gave rise to a bill currently under consideration in the Senate), and AI-generated content.

Daniel J. Gervais, PhD, is the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, where he serves as Director of the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program. He is also appointed as part-time Senior Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In 2022, he held the Distinguished Fulbright Chair at Carleton University in Ottawa. He is a Past President of the International Association for the Advancement ort Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP). Prior to joining Vanderbilt, he was the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Law (Common Law Section) of the University of Ottawa. He has been visiting professor at several major universities in Europe and Asia. He is the author of a leading treatise on the WTO TRIPS Agreement (Sweet & Maxwell, 5th edition 2023), and a “sci-fi legal trilogy” titled the Coexistence Trilogy. The first volume Forever, was published in 2023. He also published books published by Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press, among others. His research has been published in many of the world’s leading law reviews, and other publications, including Science

Dirk Visser (1969) is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Leiden Law School since 2003 and advocaat in Amsterdam since 1996 (Visser Schaap & Kreijger).

Thursday 18 June – Walking City Tour The Hague

• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer
• The last self-portrait of Rembrandt van Rijn
• View of Delft
• The Goldfinch by Carel Fabritius

You will discover where Vermeer was standing when he painted View of Delft and what makes The Goldfinch such a special and moving work of art.

Practical information Peace Palace

• Please note that the tour through the gardens of the Peace Palace is less suitable for people with walking difficulties. The paths include stairs and uneven sections.
• Only in case of very bad weather will the program be adjusted. If this happens, we will provide a suitable alternative.
• We can accommodate a maximum of 40 participants; if registrations exceed this number, an alternative afternoon program will be offered. There is plenty to see in The Hague.

Jacqueline Seignette (Dr.) is a consultant at Seignette Legal. She sits on the dispute resolution committee of several Dutch CMOs, is board member of copyright society VvA and member of the ALAI Executive Committee. She is editorial board member of IP law review IER and contributes to several copyright commentaries.

Agnès Lucas-Schloetter is Professor at Nantes Université, France, where she heads the Master’s Program in Intellectual Property and Digital Law. Her main field of interest includes European and comparative copyright law. She is co-author of a leading French commentary on copyright law, the “Traité de la propriété littéraire et artistique” (LexisNexis, 6^th edition 2026).

Professor at the Post-Graduation School of Public Policy and Development (PPED) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and at the Law School of ITR/UFRRJ. He is a lawyer, holds a PhD in Law and his contemporary research includes different aspects of copyright, more specifically on the relations with freedom of artistic expression, right to research, access and cultural rights, artificial intelligence and innovation in general

Professor Frank Gotzen (°1947) received his law degree (Doctor in Law) from the KU Leuven in 1970. He obtained a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and worked from 1970 till 1973 as a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition law in Munich. In 1979 he became a lecturer for «Copyright» at the Law Faculty of the KU Leuven and in 1984 also for «Industrial Property». Since 1987, he was Professor for Copyright an Industrial Property. After his retirement in 2012 he continued to teach “Copyright” as an emeritus Professor.
Professor Gotzen has been Dean of the Law Faculty of the Catholic University of Brussels (KU Brussel) from 1982 till 1987. From 1992 till 1997 he was the Rector of this university. Professor Gotzen is the founder of the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (CIR) and has been its director between 1988-2014. Today, it has been integrated into the Centre for IT & IP Law (CITIP).
In 1994 Professor Gotzen worked as an expert at the Belgian Parliament to review the Belgian Copyright Bill. He has been an expert several times for the Commission of the European Community, drafting studies in Intellectual Property matters. In 2002 and in 2006 he has been appointed as Visiting Researcher in the Institute for Intellectual Property (IIP) in Tokyo. In 2013 he was appointed as Program Professor in the School of Public Affairs of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei. Since 2011 he is a visiting Professor for the Master en Propriedad Intelectual of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
He acted as a member of the Scientific Council at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property in Munich and of the EU Experts group on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights with the European Commission .
In 1998, he established a LL.M. program in intellectual property rights which has now become the Master of Intellectual Property & ICT Law in Brussels.
At present he is a member of the Belgian High Council for Intellectual Property.
Since 2016, he serves as President of the International Copyright Association ALAI, based in Paris.