Dr. Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law and is a member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society. He has obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees from Cambridge University in the UK and Columbia Law School in New York, and a Doctorate in Law (J.S.D.) from Columbia Law School. Dr. Geist is the editor of several copyright books, the author of a popular blog on Internet and intellectual property law issues, and the creator of Law Bytes, one of Canada’s leading technology law podcasts. Dr. Geist serves on many boards, including Internet Archive Canada and the EFF Advisory Board. He was appointed to the Order of Ontario in 2018 and has received numerous awards for his work including the Public Knowledge IP3 Award and the EFF’s Pioneer Award

Prof. Miriam Marcowitz-Bitton is a Professor and the Raoul Wallenberg Chair in Human Rights at the Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law. She researches and teaches in the fields of intellectual property, law and technology, and property law. Prof. Marcowitz-Bitton has published books and articles for more than a decade and edited academic books, including an interdisciplinary volume on intellectual property and a retirement volume in honor of Justice Elyakim Rubinstein. Her primary areas of work are in civil law, encompassing property law, contract law, unjust enrichment, and tort law. Her studies include EU copyright policy; patent policy in the U.S. and Israel; copyright licensing in the online environment; comparative government-data commercialization policy; and patent protection for life-saving vaccines during pandemics, particularly COVID-19. Prof. Marcowitz-Bitton has received academic awards, including the Aharon Barak Prize, the Zeltner Prize, and the Bar-Ilan University Rector’s Award for Scientific Innovation

Prof. Florencia Marotta-Wurgler is the Boxer Family Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and the director of the NYU Law School Study Abroad Program in Buenos Aires, director of the Jacobson Program in Law and Business, and co-director of the Center for Law, Economics, and Organization. Her teaching and research interests are contracts, consumer contracts, privacy, electronic commerce, and the regulation of online transactions. Her published research has empirically addressed various problems associated with standard-form contracts online, such as the effectiveness of disclosure and information privacy regimes and whether people read the fine print. In 2009, she testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation at a hearing titled “Aggressive Sales Tactics on the Internet and Their Impact on American Consumers.” She is a co-reporter of the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law of Consumer Contracts, a member of the European Law Institute, the Advisory Board of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Law School in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a fellow at the Engelberg Center for Information Law and Policy at NYU School of Law

Prof. Keun Lee is a Distinguished Professor of Chung-Ang University and an emeritus at Seoul National University, a Fellow of the CIFAR, the President of the Korean Economic Association, and the chairman of the Center for Economic Catch-up. He is also an editor of Research Policy and an associate editor of Industrial and Corporate China. He is the winner of the 2014 Schumpeter Prize for his monograph on Schumpeterian Analysis of Economic Catch-up, and also the 2019 Kapp Prize by EAEPE. Also, the EBES awarded him the title of EBES Fellow of the Year 2023. He writes regularly for Project Syndicate. Previously, He served as the Vice-chairman of the National Economic Advisory Council for the chair and President of Korea; as the President of the International Schumpeter Society in the years 2016 to 2018; as a member of the Committee for Development Policy of the UN in the years 2013 to 2018; and as a GFC member of the World Economic Forum in the years 2016 to 2019. He obtained a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. His total citations received are about 16,000, with an H-index of 59 and an I-10 index of 165 (Google Scholar)

Dr. Volker Stocker heads the multidisciplinary research group “Digital Economy, Internet Ecosystem, and Internet Policy” at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (German Internet Institute) in Berlin. He is also a senior researcher in the Internet Architecture and Management Group at TU Berlin, an associated researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, a research fellow at the Quello Center at Michigan State University, and an affiliated scholar with the Dynamic Competition Initiative (UC Berkeley & EUI). Additionally, he serves on the board of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS) and is Co-Chair of ITS Europe. An economist by background, Volker takes an interdisciplinary approach in his research, combining different areas of expertise and methods to investigate critical issues related to the digital economy at the intersection of technology, economics, and policy. His recent research focuses primarily on the economics, evolution, and regulation of digital infrastructures, platforms/ecosystems, and technologies

Dr. Vera Shikhelman is a senior researcher at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and the Dispute Resolution Automation Lab (DRA). Her research focuses on empirical analysis of international dispute resolution institutions and the incorporation of AI into national and international dispute resolution institutions. Vera graduated with an LL.B. Degree in Law and a minor in psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After that, she obtained an LL.M. degree from Columbia University in the City of New York and a JSD (law doctorate) degree from the University of Chicago. During the last year of her JSD studies, she was an Emil Noel research fellow at NYU Law School. Vera's past research focuses on decision-making, procedure, and access to justice in international tribunals and institutions. In her work, Vera uses both qualitative and quantitative empirical research methods, as well as natural language processing (NLP)