Lilian Edwards is a pioneer in the field of Internet law. She has taught information technology law, e-commerce law, privacy law and Internet law at undergraduate and postgraduate level since 1996 and been involved with law and artificial intelligence (AI) since 1985. She is now Emerita Professor at Newcastle and Honorary Professor at CREATe, University of Glasgow, which she helped co-found, as well as a fellow of RESCAI at the EU University Viadrina. Frankfurt and Director of Pangloss Consulting. She is co-editor with Goanta and Urquhart of Law, Policy and the Internet, one of the leading information law textbooks (Hart Publishing, 2nd edn, 2026). She won the Future of Privacy Forum award in 2019 for best paper ("Slave to the Algorithm" with Michael Veale) and the award for best non-technical paper at FAccT in 2020, on automated hiring. In 2004 she won the Barbara Wellberry Memorial Prize in 2004 for work on online privacy where she invented the notion of data trusts, a concept which ten years later has been proposed in EU legislation. She is a former fellow of the Alan Turing Institute on Law and AI, and the Institute for the Future of Work. Edwards has consulted for inter alia the EU Commission, the European Parliament, the OECD, WIPO, Google, McAfee and Gartners.

Dr. Catalina Goanta is Associate Professor in Private Law and Technology and Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant HUMANads, focused on understanding the impact of content monetization on social media and on reinterpreting private law fairness in the context of platform governance. Between 2016-2021 she was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University, and during February 2018 - February 2019, she was a Niels Stensen fellow at the University of St. Gallen (The Institute of Work and Employment) and Harvard University (The Berkman Center for Internet and Society). Dr. Goanta is also an expert trainer in the European Commission’s E-Enforcement Academy, where she gives trainings on computational investigations of European consumer protection violations on digital markets. In this context, she also co-developed the first European influencer education resource on consumer protection and social media advertising, the Influencer Legal Hub.

Dr Lachlan Urquhart is a Senior Lecturer in Technology Law and Human-Computer Interaction at the Edinburgh Law School. He is Founder and Director of the Regulation and Design (RAD) Lab. He is a Director of both the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance, and Privacy (CRISP) and the Scottish Research Centre for Intellectual Property and Technology Law (SCRIPT). He is part of the management team of the Designing Responsible NLP Centre for Doctoral Training, and the Institute of Design Informatics. 

His monograph, Clever Computing through Accountable Design, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Lachlan has published over 60 papers in leading venues in computing, law, and ethics. He has been an investigator on projects totalling nearly £17m. He is currently Principal Investigator of the £1.2m EPSRC ‘Fixing the Future: Right to Repair and Equal-IoT’ project and is Co-Investigator on the £9.75m Responsible Natural Language Processing AI CDT; the £3.2m EPSRC Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Governance Node, and various projects in the EPSRC Horizon Trusted Data Driven Products hub. He was also investigator on the now completed ESRC Emotional AI in Smart Cities project , EPSRC Defence Against Dark Artefacts and TAS Hub Envisioning Biometric AI Futures project.

His main research interests are in the socio-technical aspects of designing, living with, and regulating emerging information technologies. He has a multidisciplinary background in computer science (PhD) and law (LL.B; LL.M) and has studied at the Universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde, and Nottingham. He is an editor on the Routledge Studies in Surveillance book series.

He is a Visiting Researcher at the Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute and member of the international Emotional AI Lab. He has been a visiting scientist at Fraunhofer AICOS, Porto (2021); a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute (2020-22), a Research Fellow at the Information Society Law Centre, Universitá degli Studi di Milano (2022-23), and a visiting researcher at Centre for Business Information Ethics, Meiji University, Tokyo (2014). At Edinburgh, he was the Law School lead for the Centre for Data, Culture, and Society 2019-2023; and is a research associate at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. 

Dr Andres Guadamuz is a Reader in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Sussex and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of World Intellectual Property. His main research areas are on artificial intelligence and copyright, open licensing, cryptocurrencies, and smart contracts. He has written two books and over 40 articles and book chapters, and also blogs regularly about different technology regulation topics.

Lorna Woods is Professor of Internet Law. She started her career as a practising solicitor in a technology, media and telecommunications practice in the City of London. She has extensive experience in the field of media policy and communications regulation, including data protection, social media and the Internet (see list of publications below). She has also contributed to many commissioned studies, including, for example, the RAND Study on Options for and Effectiveness of Internet Self- and Co-Regulation’ (2007)) and the Hans Bredow Study on Co-regulation and the Media (2006) to the European Audiovisual Observatory study into Media Pluralism and Competition Issues (2020). Her expertise in these fields is reflected in the fact that she has been asked on numerous occasions to give oral evidence to Parliamentary inquiries across the technology, media and telecommunications sectors both in the UK and abroad. She has worked with international organisations - for example, chairing an Expert Working Group on Content Moderation and AI for the OSCE's Representative for Freedom of the Media's SAIFE initiative. She also has a long-standing interest in privacy, especially privacy in public places and the law relating to surveillance, and is well-know as a European lawyer for the Textbook on EU Law (Steiner and Woods). Her research project with Carnegie UK Trust, which was shortlisted in 2019 for Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, was on reducing harm arising on social media. The Carnegie project introduced a systems-based approach to social media regulation, rather than an approach focusing on direct content regulation, and proposed that platform operators be subject to a statutory duty of care. The proposal was adopted in the 2019 Online Harms White Paper. The impact of her work has been recognised in both Houses of Parliament and in recognition of her work she was awarded an OBE in 2020 for her services to internet safety policy. She continues this work with the Online Safety Act Implementation Network.

Catherine Barnard is Professor of European Union Law and Jean Monnet Chair of EU Law at the University of Cambridge. She is also Senior Tutor of Trinity College. She specializes in European Union law, labour and discrimination law, and competition law.

Alessia D'Amico is Assistant Professor at the International and European Law (IER) Department of the Utrecht School of Law. Her research focuses on the regulation of digital platforms, in particular from a competition and data protection perspective. She coordinates the master's course ‘The law of market technologies’. Dr. D’Amico has a PhD in Competition Law from the European University Institute. During her PhD, she collaborated with Privacy International and lectured at Wageningen University and Research. She previously worked for the UK Competition and Markets Authority, and holds an LLM in Competition Law from King’s College London and an LLB from Queen Mary University of London.

Professor Michael Veale is Professor of Technology Law and Policy and Vice-Dean (Education Innovation) in the Faculty of Laws, UCL. His expertise sits at the intersection of computer science and information law, consdiering issues of fundamental rights amidst advanced data analysis, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and encrypted computation. Professor Veale is Fellow at the Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, a member of the Advisory Councils of the Open Rights Group and of Foxglove, the Technology Advisory Panel (TAP) of the Information Commissioner's Office, and a research affiliate of the PILOT Lab at Penn State University. He previously has had advisory roles and written reports for the Ada Lovelace Institute, the Law Society of England and Wales, the Royal Society and the British Academy, the United Nations, Commonwealth Secretariat, BEUC, and the Open Society Foundations, amongst many others. He has previously worked at the Alan Turing Institute, the European Commission, and as adjunct professor at NYU. Professor Veale holds a PhD in the application of law and policy to the social challenges of machine learning from UCL (STEaPP and Computer Science), and degrees from Maastricht University and LSE.