Uta is Professor of Law and Technology at Southampton Law School. Her research interests have been broad ranging, mostly concerning governance questions of the internet – its territoriality, dominant corporate actors, personal data building blocks and technologies, such as algorithms and AI. She is interested in the intersections of related legal regimes (e.g. private and public international law; privacy and data protection), comparative law, and critical legal readings of developments in the law-and-technology field.

Uta has been published widely, including the monograph Jurisdiction and the Internet (CUP, 2007, ppb 2010), the edited collections The Net and the Nation State (CUP, 2017) and Data-Driven Personalisation in Markets, Politics and Law (CUP, 2021, co-editor J. Eisler) and the textbook Information Technology Law (5^th ed, 2016, co-authors Diane Rowland and Andrew Charlesworth).

September 2023 – August 2025:  Visiting Professor in Law and Technology at CUHK, Hong Kong.

András Koltay, Research Professor at the University of Public Service and Professor of Law at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary

András Koltay is Research Professor at the University of Public Service and Professor of Law at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary. He received LL.M. degree in Public Law at the University College London in 2006, and PhD degree in law at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 2008. Between 2018 and 2021, he served as Rector of the University of Public Service. He has been the President of the National Media and Infocommunications Authority of Hungary since 2021. His principal research has been concerned with freedom of speech, personality rights and media regulations, but he also deals with other constitutional questions. He was a speaker in more than 200 conferences in several countries. He is the author of New Media and Freedom of Expression (Hart, 2019) and Media Freedom and the Law (Routledge, 2024). He is the co-editor of Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression (Cambridge University Press, 2017, together with Jeroen Temperman), Comparative Privacy and Defamation (Elgar, 2020, together with Paul Wragg), Global Perspectives on Press Regulation, Vol. 1 and 2 (Hart, 2023 and 2024, together with Paul Wragg) and Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2024, together with Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr. and Charlotte Garden).

Joanna Kulesza, Assistant Professor of International Law, and Director of the Lodz Cyber Hub at the University of Lodz, Poland

Joanna Kulesza is an Assistant Professor of International Law and Director of the Lodz Cyber Hub at the University of Lodz, where she leads research on the application of international law in cyberspace. She is also a liaison to the Governmental Advisory Committee of ICANN and a former Vice-Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC).

Joanna served on the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (2018-2023) and is a faculty member at Vilnius University and Oslo University. She held postdoctoral positions at the University of Cambridge and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Delivered guest lectures at prestigeous academic institutions including Stanford University, the University of Oxford, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of Münster.

Participant in the “Oxford Process on International Law Protections in Cyberspace” and co-author of its declarations.  Additionally, Joanna contributed to the United Nations (UN) Commission on developing an international convention to counter the misuse of information and communication technologies for criminal purposes (2021-2024).

Reviewer for esteemed peer reviewed journals including Telecommunications Policy, Data & Policy (CUP), International Data Privacy Law (Oxford Academic), European Journal of Law and Technology (University of Exeter), Law, Innovation and Technology (T&F), and Internet Policy Review (Humboldt University of Berlin). An expert in human rights, technology, and international law, Kulesza has authored numerous publications and actively engages in global policy initiatives on digital governance and cybersecurity.

Ronald Krotoszynski, John S. Stone Chairholder of Law and Director of the Program in Constitutional Studies & Initiative for Civic Engagement

Professor Krotoszynski earned his B.A. and M.A. from Emory University and J.D. and LL.M. from Duke University where he was articles editor for the Duke Law Journal and selected for Order of the Coif. He clerked for the Honorable Frank M. Johnson, Jr, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and was an associate with Covington & Burling, D.C. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Alabama School of Law, Professor Krotoszynski served on the law faculty at Washington and Lee University and, prior to that, on the law faculty of the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. He also has taught as a visiting professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary, at the Florida State University College of Law, and at Brooklyn Law School. Krotoszynski has held appointments as a visiting scholar in residence at the University of Washington-Seattle School of Law, the Seattle University School of Law, and the Lewis and Clark School of Law.

Emily Laidlaw, Research Chair in cybersecurity law and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the
University of Calgary, Canada

Emily Laidlaw is a Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity Law and Associate Professor. She researches in the areas of technology regulation, cybersecurity and human rights, with a focus on platform regulation, online harms, privacy, freedom of expression and corporate social responsibility. She is author of the book Regulating Speech in Cyberspace: Gatekeepers, Human Rights and Corporate Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Prior to joining the University of Calgary in 2014, Dr. Laidlaw spent almost ten years in the United Kingdom where she completed her LLM and PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science and held a tenure-track lectureship with the University of East Anglia Law School. Before undertaking postgraduate studies, Emily practised for several years in Canada as a litigator, and she is currently serving as Ethics Advisor to Calgary’s City Council.

Drawing from her years in the UK, Dr. Laidlaw’s research spans Canadian, UK, European and international law. As a scholar, she actively contributes to law reform and other advisory work to government and other bodies, with recent projects on online harms, mis- and dis-information, defamation law, intimate image abuse, intermediary liability, content moderation and privacy. She co-chaired the expert advisory panel on online safety appointed by the Government of Canada to advise on next steps for the development of legislation to address online harms. As a result of the impact of her work outside the academy, Dr. Laidlaw was recognized as a Peak Scholar in 2018.

Dr. Laidlaw engages widely in public discussions in her field, delighting in conversations with her students, with the public at events, whether at the library or online panels, conferences, judicial education and testimony before government.

Dr. Laidlaw is a network director of the Canadian Network on Information and Security and a member of the Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance.

Bernát Török, Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, director of the Institute of the Information Society at the Ludovika University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary, and UNESCO Chair on Digital Platforms for Learning Societies.

Bernát Török is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, Director of the Institute of the Information Society at the Ludovika University of Public Service (Budapest), and UNESCO Chair on Digital Platforms for Learning Societies. He worked as legal expert at the Hungarian media authority for seven years, then he was chief counsellor at the Constitutional Court of Hungary between 2010 and 2018. In 2016–17, he was visiting scholar at Yale Law School. He earned his PhD in 2018 with a thesis titled To Speak Freely in a Democracy. His research interests include freedom of speech, and fundamental rights in the information society.