Paloma Krõõt Tupay is Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Tartu. Her work focuses on fundamental rights, governance and administrative law, data protection, e-governance, and digital constitutionalism. She has served as a legal adviser to the President of Estonia and to the Minister of the Interior. Tupay studied law at the universities of Passau and Freiburg in Germany and earned her doctorate (Dr. iur.) from the University of Cologne. She has published on topics such as GDPR and e-government, AI in public administration, and Estonian constitutional law; she also co-edited and -authored with Martin Ebers in 2023 a book on legal aspects of the use of AI and ML in the public sector (Springer).