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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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