Iliana Araka is a graduate of the Library and Information Science Department of the Technological Educational Institution (TEI) of Thessaloniki, Greece and holds a MSc in Library and Information Science from the Archive and Library Science Department, Ionian University. She is an adjunct lecturer at the Library and Information Science Department of TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece and she is also working as a librarian at the Qualitty Assurance Unit of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In the past she has worked at the library of the TEI of Thessaloniki.

Ebenezer's previous academic background covered a number of business and legal aspects of the content industries. After attaining a first class thesis at the Bachelor's level which focused on copyright issues in the digital distribution of files, and an LLM (with Merit) from the University of Westminster, London in 2007, he became more interested in the interface between law and technology and the effects of new technological developments on the law, hence opted to engage in a detailed study within internet piracy.

Ebenezer is currently pursuing his PhD at Aberystwyth University in the UK, and his study broadly falls under technology, rights and the law, with the thesis examining the feasibility to contain peer-to-peer illegal file-sharing.

Work experience

18/10/2010 →
Lawyer apprenticeship
Studio Legale Radice – Via Grazioli n. 43, Trento
Legal

1/11/2010 →
PhD Candidate in Private Comparative Law
Research and didactics
Department of Legal Science, University of Trento – Via Verdi n. 53, Trento
Research

15/03/2011 →
Collaboration
Research on legal issues concerning the use of human biological sample for research purposes, having particular attention to the transplantation of cancerous tissues in animal models both for clinical and research; analysis and definition of legal forms and tools related to the implementation of a research biobank
University of Trento – Fondazione Piemonte per l’Oncologia - Fondazione per la Ricerca Biomedica ONLUS
Research and Legal

26/08/2011 – 15/12/2011
Collaboration
Research on Personal Health Records for the development of TreC
University of Trento – Province of Trento - Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Research and Legal

1/02/2012 →
Collaboration
Research on Public Health Law and Judgment Translation
Lawyers Collective, Jalaram Jyot, 63 Janmabhoomi Marg, Mumbai (India)
NGO on Public Health

Education and training

1/11/2010 →
PhD Candidate in Private Comparative Law
University of Trento

September 2008 – September 2010
Juris Doctor, Summa cum laude (110 cum laude/110)
University of Trento
Master in Law
June 2010
Research period
Cátedra Interuniversitaria de Derecho y Genoma Humano – Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao (Spain)

February – September 2007
Erasmus Student
27 C.F.U.
Facultad de Derecho – Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)

September 2004 – September 2008
Laurea in Scienze Giuridiche Europee e Transnazionali
University of Trento
Bachelor Degree in Law

September 1999 – July 2004
Diploma di maturità classica (100/100)
Liceo Ginnasio Classico Statale "Giovanni Meli"
Via Aldisio 2, 90100 Palermo
High School Leaving qualifications

Nikos Koutras is a graduate of political sciences and holds a Masters’ degree in the Archive and Library Science Department, Ionian University. He is a PhD candidate at the same University.

EDUCATION
October 2010 – Present
PhD Law
University of Cambridge (Darwin College & Faculty of Law), UK
Thesis: Copyright, Videogames and Videogame Mods, supervised by Professor Lionel Bently and Dr Catherine
Seville
October 2009 – June 2010
LL.M.
University of Cambridge (Darwin College & Faculty of Law), UK
Subjects: Intellectual Property, International Intellectual Property Law, Law of Restitution, Civil Liberties and Human Rights
Awarded second class upper honours
July 2003 – September 2007
LL.B.
University of Malaya (Faculty of Law), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Awarded Pass (with Honours) (with Distinction)
Cumulative grade point average: 3.85/4.00 Class rank: 2nd

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE (SELECTED)
November 2009 – July 2010
Research Assistant for Professor Lionel Bently. Carried out research in respect of the following publications:
L Bently, ‘Exclusions from Patentability and Exceptions from Patentees’ Rights: Taking Exceptions Seriously’ (2011) Current Legal Problems L Bently and JC Ginsburg, ‘“The Sole Right … Shall Return to the Authors”: Anglo-American Authors’ Reversion Rights from the Statute of Anne to Contemporary US Copyright’ (2010) 25 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1475 – 1599

January 2009 – July 2009
Researcher, Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity Law, University of Malaya.
Carried out research on issues relating to food security, intellectual property rights affecting biodiversity (including plant variety protection) and access and benefit-sharing laws.

January 2009 – April 2009
Tutor in Constitutional Law and the Malaysian Legal System, Faculty of Law, University of Malaya.
Taught small group classes in these two first-year subjects and carried out assessments on the students’ performance

June 2008 – January 2009
Research Assistant for Professor Dr Cheong May Fong. Carried out research relating to contract law and competition law, including the following publication:
MF Cheong, Contract Law in Malaysia (Sweet & Maxwell, 2010)

July 2007 – April 2008
Pupil-in-Chambers, Messrs Shook Lin & Bok, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Carried out legal research and drafted both contentious and non-contentious legal documents in diverse areas, including banking law, contract law, insurance law, the regulation of corporations and capital markets; assisted in the conduct of corporate due diligence exercises.

Elisa Makridou is a graduate of Information Science (Ionian University), holds a Master's degree (DEA/ University of Barcelona, Spain) and is a PhD candidate at the same University. Currently, she is an adjunct Lecturer at the LIS Department of the Technological Educational Institution (TEI) of Thessaloniki, Greece and works as a librarian for the “Metsovio” Technical University of Athens. She has worked as a repository manager in the Library of TEI. She has attended many seminars and conferences, as a speaker in some of them. Among her interests are: institutional repositories, open access, metadata and information retrieval, information architecture, information literacy and academic libraries.

Work experience

01/11/2010
PhD Candidate in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Legal Philosophy
Research and Didactics
University of Trento

01/11/2010 →
PhD Candidate in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Legal Philosophy
Research and Didactics

20/02/2012 - 21/04/2012
Member of the organizing committee for the First District Legal Congress
Organization of the work-shop
Ordini degli Avvocati di Trento – Bolzano - Rovereto

10/04/2010 - 10/08/2010
Stageur
Tribunale di Trento
Criminal law - research topic focused on the relationship between security and human rights

24/06/2011 - 25/07/2011
Certificate of Partecipation
Summer School - Legal Studies course
BBSI - Bournemouth Business School International
Bournemouth (United Kingdom)

09/2003 - 10/03/2010
Juris Doctor
Curriculum in European and Transnational Law Studies
University of Trento
Master Degree in Law - Laurea Magistrale a ciclo unico

09/1998 - 07/2003
Diploma di maturità
Liceo scientifico ad indirizzo linguistico
Liceo Leonardo da Vinci, Italy
High School Leaving qualification

Nikita Maria is a PhD student in the Department of Applied Informatics at the University of Macedonia. She graduated from the Applied Informatics Department of the University of Macedonia and received her master’s degree on Informatics and Management at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her PhD research concentrates on the implementation of privacy and data protection principles in applications supported by the RFID technology, focusing specifically to the privacy and security risks that arise through its use

Konstantinos Panagos studied law at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He continued his studies as a postgraduate student at London School of Economics and Political Science (MSc in Criminal Justice Policy). He is currently a postgraduate student in sociology of law at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and an intern at Prosecutors’ Office.

She graduated from Athens Law School in 2004. She is a holder of a DEA Droit des Affaires (University of Strasbourg, 2005) and a PhD on Information Law (“Electronic distribution networks”, University of Athens, 2012).
She has a working experience in Law Fims in Athens, Brussels and Paris and spesializes in Information Law, Banking Law, Competition Law, Public Procurement.

Education
2011-2012 Master 2 in European and International Intellectual Property Law CEIPI
2010-2011 Master 1 in Private Law
Paris II, Panthéon-Assas
2008-2010 Bachelor of Laws
Paris II, Panthéon-Assas
2006-2007 LLCE English, 1 st year Paris IV, Paris-Sorbonne
12 July 2006 Baccalaureate in Literature

Work experience
July 2009 Internship at Fortsakis, Diakopoulos, Mylonogiannis & Associates Law Firm, (www.fdmalaw.com) Athens, Greece
September 2008 Host at « ModAmont » fair, (www.modamont.com)
Villepinte, FranceJuly 2007 Internship at Ioannis Karakostas Law Office, Athens, Greece

Mathias Vermeulen is a Research Fellow at the Law Faculty of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, a part-time researcher at the Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and a member of Privacy International's advisory board. At the European University Institute he was the main researcher of Prof. Martin Scheinin in his capacity as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the protection of human rights while countering terrorism between July 2008 and July 2011. Earlier he has worked at the International Commission of Jurists and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.

Napoleon Emm. Xanthoulis holds a MA in ‘National and EU Administration’ and currently studies at University College London (UCL), Faculty of Laws where has been appointed as the Volume Editor of the UCL Jurisprudence Review (2011-2012). He has published papers on specialised issues of EU law and policy as well as E-democracy and justice and his paper on ‘Introducing the concept of ‘E-Justice’ in Europe was published as part of his cooperation with the “Effectius” initiative. He has previously worked at the European Commission and several law firms in Brussels.
His current research interests focus on the introduction of a legal “Right to Oblivion” in the digital world in light of the broader re-conceptualization of human-rights towards addressing potential threats from the ICT evolution.

Aikaterini Yiannoukakou was born in Thessaloniki in 1975, which is her current place of residence. She is an information professional graduated from Library and Information Systems Department, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki in 1997, whereas she concluded her postgraduate studies in University College London (UCL) in 2001 with the title of her postgraduate thesis being “Computer Generated Evidence”. Currently, she is working on her doctoral thesis baring the title “Electronic Government: legal issues and applications” as a PhD candidate of Applied Informatics Department, University of Macedonia.
Since 2003, she has been an adjunct lecturer to the Library and Information Systems Department, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, while she has worked to several academic libraries both in Greece and United Kingdom. At present she is working to General State Archives – Archives of Larissa District, a decentralised public service of Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning & Religious Affairs.
Her interests focus information dissemination and management, information technology, information technology law, library science, e-government, ICT in public administration, computer crime, computer forensics, computer law.