Team

Alain Strowel is professor at UCLouvain (including UCL-Saint-Louis – Brussels) where he teaches courses in intellectual property, IT and media law. He also gives/has given courses in three advanced masters in intellectual property and IT law at the KULeuven, the Munich IP Law Center and the University of Alicante. In 2020-2021, he was fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (Berlin).  Alain is a lawyer at the Brussels bar since 1988 and arbiter for WIPO domain names dispute resolution system.  He has been appointed as a trustee of the European Law Academy (ERA, Trier, 2012-2019) and was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2012. Between 2019-2025, he chaired the Intellectual Property working group of All European Academies (ALLEA) to which he contributed since 2012. Alain graduated in law, economics and philosophy at the UCLouvain and the University of Amsterdam. He holds a PhD in Law from UCLouvain. Today his research focuses on data governance, Artificial Intelligence issues and the regulation of online platforms.

Cécile de Terwangne is a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Namur. She teaches ‘Privacy and ICT,’ ‘Human Rights and the Information Society’, and ‘Digital, Fundamental Rights, and Cybercrime’ courses. She is director of research at the Freedoms and Information Society Unit of the Centre de Recherches Information, Droit et Société (CRIDS) and co-director of the E.Government Chair at the University of Namur. She is an expert for the Council of Europe and the European Commission. She is a visiting professor at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Alejandra Michel is a senior researcher in digital law at the Research Centre for Information Law and Society (CRIDS/UNamur), where she is Head of the Media Law research unit. She also teaches media law, human rights in the digital environment and archives law and digital. Her research focuses on the regulation of online content moderation and the right to information. She is also a member of the Conseil de Déontologie Journalistique (French-speaking Belgium) on behalf of civil society. 

Jean De Meyere is a Researcher at CiTiP KU Leuven and a PhD Student at UCLouvain. He is preparing a thesis entitled “Multi-stakeholder Regulation and Transparency as Key Principles for Fighting Online Disinformation under EU Law” under the supervision of Pr. Alain Strowel. Jean focuses on platform governance, disinformation, content moderation, and artificial intelligence. He is also working on the H2020 MANOLO project on Cloud-Edge Efficient & Trustworthy AI. Before starting his PhD, Jean worked as Data Privacy Consultant at Computer Task Group Belgium.

Clément Maertens is a researcher and PhD student at UCLouvain. He is pursuing a PhD thesis on the role of information law principles in tackling AI-driven political disinformation. Clément holds a Master’s degree in European Law from UCLouvain (2022), and an Advanced Master’s degree in Information and Communication Technology Law from UNamur (2023). In addition to his academic background, Clément has worked as a legal advisor within the office of the Minister for Culture and Media and Vice-President of the Government of the French-speaking Community (2023-2024). His research interests include internet and AI governance, as well as media and information law.