ILEO - Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory

ILEO - Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory at the Luiss Guido Carli  is pleased to invite Scholars (Senior and Junior, PostDocs, PhD students) from around the world to apply for the 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. While all topics of 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐝/𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐏 𝐥𝐚𝐰 will be considered, strong preference will be given to those falling within the research agenda of the Observatory, therefore 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐬. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis depending on hosting capacities. Visiting researchers will be hosted at the ILEO premises or at the Department of Law and are invited to interact and to conduct research with the Luiss ILEO faculty. The condition is for the researcher to be self-funded, to benefit from a source of funding either from its own institution, a grant or a scholarship. Marie Curie fellowship can also be envisaged upon discussion. 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝𝐬: 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦: September 1, 2025 – December 13, 2025. 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦: January 12, 2026 – May 16, 2026. Exceptionally, upon request, visits outside these periods at another moment are also possible (please note that Mid July - End August are not suitable visiting periods due to the academic vacation times). For more information and the general rules see: https://lnkd.in/dZaBKA-x.

ILEO - Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory and the Luiss Guido Carli University Department of Law hosted on 17 February 2025 a public lecture by Prof. nari lee (Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki), jointly online with Prof. Anna Tischner (Jagiellonian University, Kraków), discussing their latest book publication on the concept of ‘fairness’ in intellectual property law. The event has been chaired and introduced by Prof. Christophe Geiger, Director of ILEO. Stay tuned for further public lectures and future initiatives of the Observatory!

ILEO - Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory at Luiss Guido Carli University is very happy to announce its first Visiting Researchers in the framework of the international ILEO Visiting researcher program, Jannis Lennartz and Viktoria Kraetzig. Jannis Lennartz is a Visiting Professor for Constitutional Law and Legal Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Viktoria Kraetzig is a Postdoc at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. Main and currently a Lecturer in Competition and Intellectual Property Law at Freie Universität Berlin. They work on a joint project “Copyright’s Work as Work of Art” reframing copyright’s concept of work under the conditions of digital reproduction. Their approach is twofold: It combines a historic argument - returning to the beginnings of the concept of work in the 19th century - with constitutional law: linking copyright’s work and constitutional law’s freedom of the arts. They will be visiting ILEO / Luiss Department of Law in September this year. It is still time to apply for a visiting stay at ILEO, in particular for 2025/2026 or 2026/2027 (short visits outside this framework might be accommodated depending on the topic)! We invite scholars (senior and junior scholars, PostDocs, PhD students) from around the world to apply to the ILEO International Visiting Researcher Program. More info at: https://lnkd.in/dZaBKA-x.

ILEO - Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory is very happy to announce its new Research Paper Series on SSRN. The Series, edited by Christophe Geiger, Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Luiss Guido Carli University and Director of ILEO, is platform to disseminate the research outputs of the Observatory's research team. The first article featured is "Regulatory Challenges and Imperatives in the EU for Platform Liability in the field of Copyright: A Fundamental Rights Analysis", forthcoming in Analisi Giuridica dell'Economia (https://lnkd.in/d8PuhQVC). In this short piece, Christophe Geiger highlights what are the main regulatory challenges in the EU for platform liability from a digital constitutionalist perspective and concludes by highlighting the need for regulatory oversight on content moderation practices but also the need to explore alternative routes to liability regimes such as the implementation of remuneration rights to enable European digital champions to emerge. Watch out for many more papers soon to come! You can subscribe for further papers at: https://lnkd.in/dadTgsXj.

ILEO - Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory congratulates Prof. Annette Kur (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich), Prof. Anna Tischner (Jagiellonian University, Kraków), and Prof. nari lee (Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki) for winning The IPKat Intellectual Property Law Book of the Year 2024 with "Fairness In Intellectual Property Law". The Authors will discuss this latest book publication on 𝟭𝟳 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟲𝗵 at ILEO, in cooperation with the Luiss Guido Carli University Department of Law Research Seminar Series. The event will be chaired and introduced by Prof. Christophe Geiger, Director of ILEO. More info at: https://lnkd.in/dXvaSSnP

✨ 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗜𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝘄-𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 ✨ The ILEO - Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory, in cooperation with the Luiss Guido Carli University Department of Law Research Seminar Series, is hosting on 𝟭𝟳 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟲𝗵, a speaker lecture of Prof. Annette Kur (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich) Prof. Anna Tischner (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) Prof. nari lee (Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki) that will discuss their latest book publication on the concept of ‘fairness’ in intellectual property law. The event will be chaired and introduced by Prof. Christophe Geiger, Director of ILEO. The event will take place in Via Parenzo, Room 19. Participation online is also available at the link: https://lnkd.in/dqHCcyVh. Please register and confirm your attendance at [email protected] (mandatory for externals to enter the Luiss Premises). More info at: https://lnkd.in/dXvaSSnP

The ILEO - Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory (Luiss Guido Carli University) is delighted to announce the signature on 23 January 2025 in Oxford of an International Cooperation Agreement with the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), in presence of the two Directors Professor Christophe Geiger and Professor Dev Gangjee, as well as Robert Burrell, Intellectual Property Chair at Oxford. Both centers will implement joint activities in the field of Innovation Law, with a focus on ethical questions and issues of policy relevance, such as for example the development of joint research programs and organisation of joint conferences, seminars and workshop and the exchange of staff (faculty members) and PhD students. After the signature, OIPRC hosted a public lecture by Professor Geiger on "Elaborating an Ethical Copyright System for Generative AI: What Role for Digital Constitutionalism?", presenting ongoing research on Innovation Law and Digital constitutionalism in the field of AI, a major research focus of ILEO. More about ILEO: https://lnkd.in/d_DSfA-w More about OIPRC: https://lnkd.in/d5dnndHZ

For the first event of the year, ILEO - Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory hosted on January 21, 2025 the presentation of the recently published book of its member Vincenzo Iaia in the Luiss Guido Carli University Law Department Monograph Series (G. Giappichelli Editore s.r.l.). Please save the date also for the future event of 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟳, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, with Professor nari lee (Hanken), Professor Annette Kur (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition) and Professor Anna Tischner (Jagiellonian University) who will in their presentation discuss the book entitled "𝘍𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘐𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘓𝘢𝘸 - 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵" (Edward Elgar Publishing) during an event jointly organized by ILEO and the Department of Law.

ILEO is pleased to invite you to the first event of the year: the 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 by the ILEO member Vincenzo Iaia in the Luiss Guido Carli University Law Department Monograph Series (G. Giappichelli Editore Srl). The book titled "𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐩𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐰: 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧” (English translation) represents a significant academic milestone that explores the intersections of copyright originality with traditional and innovative questions, from the theoretical interpretation of creativity and the need for European harmonization to the recent challenges raised by Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, to the inconsistent integration of the anti-competitive concerns in this evaluation. The presentation will take place on the 𝟐𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝟏𝟔:𝟎𝟎 𝐢𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐬, 𝐀𝐮𝐥𝐚 𝐍𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐳𝐢𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢. You can find further information about the event in the flier. For logistic reasons, on-site participants are strongly encouraged to send an email by Saturday to [email protected]. Online participation is also possible by using the following link: https://lnkd.in/df2mEB3Q The ILEO team wishes you a fantastic 2025 and looks forward to seeing you at the next events. #innovationlaw #ethics

ILEO - Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory jointly with the Luiss Guido Carli University Department of Law hosted a public lecture by Professor Robert Brauneis (The George Washington University Law School) on whether training generative AI models on copyrighted works can be covered by Fair Use or rather should require licensing. Here some pictures of the event. Stay tuned for further public lectures and future initiatives of the Observatory to be launched in the coming year (we have a lot of announcements coming up soon)! The ILEO team wishes you a Merry Christmas!