Juliette Sénéchal

Juliette Sénéchal is a professor of private law and a member of the Law and Legal Perspectives Research Centre (CRDP) at the University of Lille, as well as a member of the Department of Research in Intangible Law (DReDIS – IRJS) at the Sorbonne. Since 2025, she has been deputy scientific director at Inria, in charge of humanities and social sciences. From 2023 to 2025, she was a delegate to the SPIRALS project team at the Inria Centre at the University of Lille. Her scientific work focuses on the study of contemporary changes in European digital law in the context of the development of digital services and artificial intelligence systems and models. In particular, from 2023 to 2025, she co-organised a series of interdisciplinary discussions on the regulation of digital practices that influence and manipulate human ‘consumers’ with Sabine Bernheim-Desvaux. The results were published in the book Vers un droit neuro-éthique ? (Towards a neuro-ethical law?), which brings together computer science researchers from various Inria project teams, as well as researchers from other disciplines (neuroscience, psychology, economics, management science, sociology, law). We were thus able to formulate proposals aimed at making the protection of humans more effective within the framework of a future European Digital Fairness Act She has also been a member of the Cross-Disciplinary Project LOOP (closed Loop neurOtechnologies: from sensOrs to aPplications) since September 2025. This project brings together psychiatrists, neuroscientists, computer scientists and lawyers from Inserm, Inria and the University of Lille, under the auspices of the Alliance Neurotech.EU.

Institution

Inria

France

Inria is the French national institute for research in digital science and technology, and since January 2024 has been responsible for the Agence de programmes dans le numérique (Digital Programs Agency), designed to strengthen the collective dynamics of higher education and research. Its DNA is based on world-class research, technological innovation and entrepreneurial risk. Within 220 project teams, most of which are shared with major research universities, more than 3,800 scientists are exploring new avenues, often in interdisciplinary collaboration with industrial partners, to meet ambitious challenges. As a technology institute, Inria supports a wide range of innovation paths: from open source software publishing to the creation of technology startups (Deeptech).