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Biography

Professor of Commercial Law, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Currently, Academic Visitor at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 2022 Sir Roy Goode Scholar at UNIDROIT, 2021-2022 Arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration of Madrid and of Spain. Member of the EU Expert Group on Liability/Technologies formation that elaborated the Report Liability for AI and other emerging technologies Member of the Expert Group to the EU Observatory on Platform Economy assisting the EU Commission on Platform rules Member of the Expert Group on B2B Data Sharing and Cloud Computing assisting the Commission on the elaboration of Model Contract Terms and Standard Contracts. Expert at UNIDROIT and UNCITRAL in Working Groups on Enforcement (Technology), Warehouse Receipts and Digital Economy (AI for international trade, Data transactions, Online Platforms). Spanish Delegate before UNCITRAL WG VI on Security Interests and WG IV on E-Commerce (Projects on AI in international data and Data transactions), and before UNIDROIT for MAC protocol. Member of the Inclusive Global Legal Innovation Platform (IGLIP) on Online Dispute Resolution (Department of Justice, Hong Kong – UNCITRAL). European Law Institute (ELI): - Member of ELI Council since 2019 and of ELI Executive Committee since 2021. - Author of the ELI Innovation paper: Guiding Principles on ADM in Europe, 2022 - Co-Rapporteur to the ELI Project on Algorithmic Contracts - Co-Rapporteur to the ELI Project on Access to Digital Assets (Enforcement) - Member of the ELI Project on Model Rules for Online Platforms - Assessor to ELI Project on Smart Contracts and Blockchain Member of the Advertising Tribunal, of Autocontrol, Spanish Advertising Self-Regulation Organization (2014-2018). Member of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law Member of the Artificial Intelligence Ethics Committee, Spanish Bar Association Member of the Advisory Committee to Open Internet Governance Institute European Central Bank Legal Research Programme 2018 fellow with a project on Fintech and Stanford Law School TTLF fellow with a comparative analysis of US-EU regulations on Crowdfunding platforms. James J. Coleman Sr. Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Tulane Law School, Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester College in Oxford University, Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre of European Law and Politics (ZERP) of University of Bremen (Germany), Chair of Excellence at Oxford University (Harris Manchester College). Other visiting teaching or research positions at a number of universities and research centers such as Columbia Law School (2014, 2015/16, 2021), Université de Toulouse 1 Capitole as a Professeur invité, University of Washington, University of Tokyo (Japan), and University College of London (UK). Main research interests focus on digital law, international business transactions and secured transactions and corporate finance.