Johan David Michels is a researcher 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 co-author of 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”, will be published in the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology in 2025.