Academic Session I

  • Panel
  • Le Baixu
  • Wednesday 20.05 — 16:00 - 17:15

Organising Institution

CPDP

Belgium

The three academic sessions are an integral part of CPDP's mission to connect scholarship with practice and policymaking. In 2026, Academic Session I brings a legal sciences perspective to questions of data protection, privacy, and digital governance. Papers were selected through an open call and presented to foster exchange beyond academia. From the global reach of EU regulation to the granular mechanics of individual rights, the session traces how legal frameworks are tested and reshaped in a digital world. The session features the papers De Jure Brussels Effect: Lessons to the European Union about Digital Regulatory Frameworks according to the experiences of Brazil and Mexico (Luisa Maciel Perez & Mariana De Hoyos), Distributed Memory, Unlearning and the Governance of Forgetting in Large Language Models under the GDPR (Stephanie von Maltzan), The Disparity of Privacy Preference and Cookie "Choice": Is Design more Important than What You Want? (Julia Krämer), and ARCO Rights as the GDPR Legacy (Stella Anne Ming Hui Teoh).

Moderator

Alicja Kucharska

Tilburg University - Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT) - Netherlands

Speaker

Luisa Maciel Perez

European Master in Law, Data and AI (EMILDAI) - Europe

Luisa M. Perez is a Brazilian legal professional currently pursuing the European Master in Law, Data and AI (EMILDAI), an ERASMUS MUNDUS program coordinated by Dublin City University in partnership with Avignon Université and Università di Pisa, with a specialisation in data and AI governance. She has worked in major law firms in Brazil, including as a lawyer, and has more recently worked as a researcher for international organisations, including the ADAPT Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin and the Privacy & Access Council of Canada. She also took part in the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP).

Speaker

Stephanie von Maltzan

FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure - Germany

Stephanie von Maltzan is a research associate and doctoral student at the Leibniz-Institute for Information Infrastructure in Karlsruhe (FIZ). Following the completion of her first and second state law examination in Germany and the pursuit of an advanced Master's degree in Privacy, Cybersecurity and Datamanagement at Maastricht University, her main areas of work and research project responsibilities have primarily been at the intersection of law and technology since 2017. She also holds a specialisation in information technology. Furthermore, she sits on the Management Committee of the Data Protection Law Scholars Network (DPSN). Her research focuses on exploring how to design legally sound, accountable and effective digital infrastructure.

Speaker

Julia Krämer

Erasmus University Rotterdam - Netherlands

Julia Krämer is an assistant professor in Data Protection Law and Empirical Legal Studies at Erasmus School of Law, and she recently defended her PhD at Erasmus University Rotterdam. In her research, she is combining both doctrinal (legal) methods with empirical insights and is particularly interested in mobile tracking and advertising technologies.

Speaker

Stella Anne Ming Hui Teoh

Kyushu University - Japan

Stella Anne Teoh Ming Hui is a 2nd year LLD student at Kyushu University. Her current thesis focuses on the role of human oversight as a regulatory safeguard for AI. Previously, her LLM thesis examined the impact of the EU's GDPR on data protection legislation in selected ASEAN Member States. Her work on human-in-the-loop contexts, content moderation and legitimacy are also in the process of publication. Coming from an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree (Philosophy, Law and Business), she has always been keen on exploring interdisciplinary avenues of research including some independent work on language, literature and law. Furthermore, she is currently co-authoring an analysis of human oversight in healthcare contexts. She has volunteered consistently in Internet Governance Youth initiatives since 2021, at APrIGF, APyIGF, APIGA and SEAyIGF either as a session organizer, chair, or facilitator as well as previously volunteering with the Malaysian Philosophy Society.