PLSC Europe 2025 Top Policy Provocations @CPDP

  • Panel
  • Class Room
  • Friday 22.05 — 10:30 - 11:45

Organising Institution

University of Amsterdam

Netherlands

Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) Europe is full of fresh, timely ideas, and we want to support these ideas gaining visibility in front of policymakers. Top Policy Provocations are papers that are most likely to make policymakers think, and potentially, make them act. This panel assembles the authors of the three Top Policy Provocation selected at the 2025 edition of PLSC Europe, hosted by the University of Leiden in fall last year: 1. "How experienced are Data Protection Authorities in enforcement concerning AI? Lessons for the enforcement system of the AI Act", by Joanna Mazur, Claudio Novelli & Zuzanna Choińska 2. "Beyond Individual Privacy: A Layered Model to Reassess the Legal Nature of Genetic Data", by Ruoxin Su 3. "Beyond Schrems: The Unresolved Tensions Between US Government Access and the GDPR", by Johan David Michels, Ian Walden, Christopher Millard and Ulrich Wuermeling The authors' presentation of their research will be followed by reflections from a policy practitioner and a discussion with the audience.

Moderator

Kristina Irion

Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam - Netherlands

Speaker

Joana Mazur

University of Warzaw - Poland

Joana Mazur is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw, analyst at DELab UW and the Center of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies. Since 2025 she has been a Principal Investigator in a project funded by National Science Centre, Poland: 'New legal acts, old enforcement problems? Disentangling the complexities of the enforcement of EU law concerning digital technologies,' the part of which is research she presents on CPDP. Her research interests include data protection law, algorithms, platforms regulation, and competition law. She values interdisciplinary cooperation.

Speaker

Ruoxin Su

LSTS, VUB - Belgium

Ruoxin Su is a doctoral researcher at the Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) research group and a member of the Health and Aging Law Lab (HALL) at Vrije University Brussel (VUB). Her PhD research focuses on the use of genetic data in scientific research from a comparative perspective through EU and Chinese law, under the supervision of Prof. Paul Quinn. Her research areas include data protection law, health data, medical device regulation, and Chinese digital laws and policies. She is also contributing to several EU-funded projects on planetary health, gender equality, and medical device cybersecurity. Before joining VUB, Ruoxin was a lawyer practicing data privacy, cybersecurity, and digital services law, and also worked within a Big Tech’s global privacy team in Beijing, China.

Speaker

Dave Mitchels

Queen Mary University of London - International

Johan David Michels is a researcher and PhD candidate with the Cloud Legal Project at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, and a Guest Teacher at the London School of Economics. He has published articles covering cloud and IT services in leading US and European law journals and is a contributing author to the Cloud Computing Law book (2nd edition, OUP, 2021). His research has been funded by Microsoft and Broadcom. His most recent article, entitled “Storm Clouds are Building: Surveillance, Sovereignty, and State Interests”, was published in the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology in 2025.

Speaker

Romain Robert

EDPS - Europe

Romain is acting Head of Digital Regulation in the Policy and Consultation Unit of the EDPS. He began his career as a Belgian qualified lawyer specializing in ICT law. He then worked successively for the Belgian Data Protection Authority, the European Data Protection Supervisor, and the European Data Protection Board. He was also a program director at noyb and a member of the litigation chamber of the Belgian Data Protection Authority from 2019 to 2025.

Speaker

Christopher Millard

Queen Mary University of London - International

Christopher Millard is Professor of Privacy and Information Law in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London, where he leads the Cloud Legal Project. He is also Senior Counsel to the law firm Bristows LLP. He is a Fellow and past-Chair of the Society for Computers & Law, a past-Chair of the Technology Law Committee of the International Bar Association, and past-President of the International Federation of Computer Law Associations. He has over 40 years of experience in technology law as an academic and practitioner. He is the editor and co-author of Cloud Computing Law (Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition 2021), a founding editor of the International Journal of Law and IT, and an emeritus editor of International Data Privacy Law. A selection of his papers is available on SSRN, and he is pleased to connect via LinkedIn.