Notes on Contributors

Ramyaa Bhadauria

is a registered Indian Attorney and Patent Agent with special expertise in patent drafting and prosecution. She completed her Advanced Master (ll.m.) in Intellectual Property and Knowledge Management from Maastricht University (The Netherlands) 2019–2020 on an Orange Tulip Scholarship from Nuffic Neso. Ramyaa also holds a Master’s degree (M.Sc.) in Plant Biotechnology from teri University (India).

Joanna Pawlikowska

Ph.D. is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Białystok. Her dissertation was awarded by the wipo Award for Creativity in the category Best Intellectual Property Scientific Work and by the Minister of Science and Higher Education in the 8th edition of the Competition for Scientific Works organized by the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland. Her research activity focuses on intellectual property law, mainly on copyright law. She did her internship at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bern (Switzerland). She is the author of numerous academic papers. 2013–2017 vice-president of the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture. She has also graduated University of Fryderyk Chopin, where she received her diploma in art (violin).

Julien Chaisse

is Professor at the City University of Hong Kong, School of Law. He is an award-winning scholar of international law with a focus on the regulation and development of economic globalization. He has published numerous well-regarded and widely cited books and articles, and his scholarship has been cited by international courts/tribunals, as well as U.S. Courts. Dr. Chaisse’s teaching and research include international trade/investment law, contract law, international arbitration, and Internet law. Dr. Chaisse served as a senior fellow at the World Trade Institute (Switzerland), lecturer at elite school Sciences Po Aix (France), and as a diplomat for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Embassy of France in India).

Nicolas Charest

graduated from McGill University – Faculty of Law with a dual degree in civil and common law, as well as from the University of California – Berkeley, with an ll.m degree. He is also admitted to the New York State Bar. His research interests gravitate around trademark law, unfair competitions, systems of geographical indications, as well as property theory and the philosophy of intellectual property. He was a research assistant for Authors Alliance, a non-profit organization in San Francisco, and currently is a summer associate at the Montreal office of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin llp.

Jacopo Ciani

is a post-doc researcher at the University of Turin (Italy) and a qualified lawyer practicing in Milan (Italy), with expertise in ip and competition, advertising, it and data protection law. Jacopo is also Visiting Professor at escp Business School, Turin Campus, where he teaches International Business Law and Contracts. Since 2020, Mr. Ciani has been appointed Assistant Editor of Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property, edited by Edward Elgar Publishing. His prior professional experience includes work at the Permanent Representative of Italy to the International Organizations in Geneva. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Turin (2011), holds a post-graduate diploma in International Trade Law from itc-ilo (2011) and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Milan (2016). He has been visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich, Germany) and at the ku Leuven Center for it & ip Law (Belgium). He is author of several articles in leading national and international journals and he is currently working on its first book on the Public Domain in the Information Society. His main research field is intellectual property law in the digital environment, with a particular interest in issues related to data governance and ai authorship. Publications within the food sector include a book chapter on the legal protection for culinary creations (2015).

Duilio Cortassa

is an intellectual property law and food regulatory specialist with expertise in European law, commercial arbitration and litigation, data protection law and international contracts. As a lawyer Duilio has represented clients in litigation proceedings in Italian courts, in proceedings conducted in front of Independent Authorities, such as the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, the Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (agcom), the Bundesnetzagentur, the Datenschutzbehörde, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico), as well as in arbitration proceedings. Duilio is admitted since 1989 as an “avvocato” in Italy, lectures and writes extensively on intellectual property and alcoholic beverage law and practice and is a member of the aidv, of the aida as well as of Federprivacy. He entered on the National Directory of Journalist Publicists and also served for a few years in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy.

Jean-Robin Costargent

is an arbitration and disputes practitioner focused on economics, finance and damages. He is currently senior manager at ey Dispute Services & Forensics Paris. He advices major international groups and their legal counsels on the financial and damages aspects of the disputes, in particular for companies in the wine & spirit sector. He has a degree in corporate finance at hec Paris, French Bar proficiency and a llm in international arbitration law at the University of Versailles. As co-chair of the Paris Very Young Arbitration Practitioners (pvyap) association until 2018, he organized a seminar on “Arbitration in wine & spirit sector”, hosted by Jones Day Paris. He is also a fellow member of the Confrérie des Entonneurs Rabelaisiens of Chinon (France).

Fernando Dias Simões

is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (cuhk). Before joining cuhk, Professor Dias Simões taught for 14 years in universities in Macau and Portugal; in addition, he practiced in a major law firm and served as in-house counsel to a water concessionaire company in his native Portugal. His research interests include international adjudication (in particular, commercial and investment arbitration), investment law, and comparative contract law. He holds a PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), an llm from the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom) and a Bachelor degree from the University of Coimbra (Portugal). He is Senior Research Fellow at the University Institute of European Studies (Italy); Member of the Scientific Committee and Senior Research Associate at gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom); member of the Asia wto Research Network (awrn); and Rapporteur for the Oxford International Organizations – oxio (Oxford University Press and Manchester International Law Centre).

Elliot N. Dorff

Rabbi, Ph.D., is Rector and Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at American Jewish University and Visiting Professor at ucla School of Law. Since 1984 he has been a member of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Conservative Movement, for which he wrote the rabbinic ruling that is the basis of his chapter in this book. Since 2007 he has chaired that committee. In addition to his earned doctorate, he has been awarded four honorary doctorate degrees, and he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Journal of Law and Religion. He has served on three commissions of the United States federal government – on the provision of health care, on diminishing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, and on research on human subjects – and for the past fifteen years he has served on the committee governing stem cell research for the State of California. He has written over 200 articles and fourteen books, and edited or co-edited another fourteen books, on Jewish thought, law, and ethics, including For the Love of God and People: A Philosophy of Jewish Law.

Iris Eisenberger

is Professor of Public Law and European Economic Law at the University of Graz. Her research focuses on technology law, environmental law, public economic law and the protection of fundamental rights. She received her Habilitation for Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and the related fields of European Union Law in 2014 for her book on “Innovation in Law” from the University of Vienna, where she was a faculty member at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law. From January 2016 until February 2020, she was Professor of Law and Head of the Institute of Law at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. She has work experience in both the Austrian and the European Parliament as well as in the Department for Constitutional Law at the Federal Chancellery of Austria. Throughout her career, Iris Eisenberger has held visiting positions at numerous renowned universities including the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Freiburg, the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard University, the Mekelle University in Ethiopia, Macau University and the Technical University Munich.

Luca Falciola

after obtaining a Master’s degree in Biology and a Ph.D in Applied Genetics in Italy, has worked as patent information specialist, patent attorney, and ip manager in pharma and biotech companies in Switzerland, France, and Belgium. He is presently owner at Scibilis srl, consultancy providing services in intellectual property, competitive intelligence, business agreements, and teaching. He is registered as Qualified Patent Information Professional and wipo ip Expert. He has been speaker at several conferences and published articles about patent information and intellectual property, in parallel of tutoring activities at residential courses or distance-learning programmes about these topics.

Danny Friedmann

is Assistant Professor of Laws at the Peking University School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen. He is an award-winning researcher and lecturer of intellectual property law, especially trademark law, geographical indications, patent law and copyright law. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. His monograph is called ‘Trademarks and Social Media, Towards Algorithmic Justice’ (Edward Elgar Publishing, September 2015). He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice (Oxford University Press). His blog called ip Dragon, which he founded in 2005, is widely read. He was invited as Castetter Visiting Scholar at California Western School of Law in San Diego in July 2016; International Guest Speaker of the EU Centre for Global Affairs at the University of Adelaide in October 2016. He is a Principal Commentator and External Examiner at the University of Macau since 2016. In May 2019 he delivered the Jean Monnet Seminar at the University of Macau. Friedmann holds a Ph.D. in Laws from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Meester in de rechten/ll.m. of the University of Amsterdam, bba of Nyenrode Business University in Breukelen, Netherlands. He can be reached at ipdragon@gmail.com.

Steven Gallagher

is a Professional Consultant, Associate Professor of Practice in Law, and Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning) at The Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Steven was awarded a first class ll.b. and called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2006. Steven has taught property law in England and Hong Kong. In 2013, Steven introduced the Principles of Art, Antiquities, Cultural Heritage and the Law course to the llm programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Steven has also presented a number of continuing professional development courses for solicitors in Hong Kong on many topics associated with property, art, antiquities, cultural heritage and the law. Steven’s research interests include property law and the development of policy and law intended to promote and protect cultural heritage.

Rebeccah Gan

is a partner with Wenderoth llp in Washington, DC. She holds academic degrees from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and the Washington College of Law at American University. A former uspto examining attorney, Rebeccah’s practice encompasses trademark clearance, registration and enforcement, focusing in particular on brand selection and management, and on litigating trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings before the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Rebeccah is a frequent lecturer and author on various ip topics, including international geographic indications and food-related ip topics.

Fabrice Giordano

is now a consultant for avity, a law firm based in Bordeaux, which is specialized in wine business law, audit and information technology consulting. He was graduated from em Lyon Business School. He completed his studies with a master degree in Wine and Spirits law at the University of Reims under the supervision of Théodore Georgopoulos, and will be a member the oiv Msc in Wine Management (P.33). He takes part in conferences at the International Organization of Vine and Wine (oiv), during the annual meetings of the International Association of Lawyers for Vine and Wine Law (aidv), and at the Rhône-Alps law school. He also contributed to the first legal review of Wine and Spirits Law: Jus Vini, by writing the following articles – “Blockchain: innovation for the wine sector”; The consequences of the free trade agreement between the EU and Japan for the wine sector – (jefta)”. He is the author of the book “Wine and spirits auctions: evolutions, challenges and new technologies”, and passionated about vintage wines. He founded the expertise and sourcing firm – Le Collectionart – in order to advise lovers of fine wines.

Christopher Heath

(1964) studied law at the Universities of Konstanz, Edinburgh and the lse. He lived and worked in Japan for three years, and between 1992 and 2005 headed the Asian Department of the Max Planck Institute for Patent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich. Christopher Heath, who wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Japanese unfair competition prevention law, is a Member of the Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Office in Munich. He can be reached by e-mail at blitzblitzblau@web.de.

Daniel Hohnstein

is a partner at Tereposky & DeRose llp, a private law firm located in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa that specializes in international trade and investment matters around the world. Dan’s expertise includes World Trade Organization (wto) dispute settlement, regional free trade agreements, trade remedy, trade defence, and safeguard measures, and customs and regulatory compliance (including technical barriers to trade and sanitary/phytosanitary measures). He represents and advises private sector companies, industry associations, and governments from many different countries in trade litigation and other challenging matters. He has appeared as counsel in hearings before wto panels, arbitrators, and the Appellate Body in a number of disputes. He also regularly advises clients on regional trade and investment treaties. Dan is an expert, for example, on the interpretation, application and implementation of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (ceta) and the market access opportunities that it is generating for Canadian, EU, and third-country value chains. He supervised a team of lawyers in a comprehensive two-year analysis concerning: (i) the implementation of the ceta in Canada; (ii) market access opportunities for businesses under the ceta; and (iii) ongoing barriers to trade faced by stakeholders. In addition, he is the lead editor of the regional trade agreement database on TradeLawGuide.com. For years, Dan has been examining market access barriers affecting trade in wine and other alcoholic beverage products. He has been monitoring with interest the recent wto disputes involving Canada as well as the internal Canadian disputes related to this topic.

Jerry I-H Hsiao

is Assistant Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Macau. Prior to his current appointment, he was Lecturer in Law at the Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool (UK) as well as affiliated Lecturer in Law at School of Law, University of Reading (UK). Dr. Hsiao obtained his PhD from the University of London (UK) and llm from Newcastle University (UK). His research interests include: patent and copyright policy, innovation policy, health law and policy as well as cross-strait relationships between China and Taiwan. He has published more than 30 articles, book chapters as well as conference proceedings relating to his fields of research.

Philippe de Jong

(ll.m., University College London) is a partner at the Altius law firm in Brussels, Belgium and a member of the Brussels bar since 2002. He specializes in contentious, advisory and transactional EU intellectual property law, with a particular focus on patents, plant variety rights and parallel import issues. Philippe also has extensive experience in EU regulatory matters concerning the agri-food and broader life sciences industries. He has published several articles in various leading European legal journals on specific topics of intellectual property and EU regulated products. He worked as a consultant for the Community Plant Variety Office, is a regular speaker at international seminars and has represented a large number of innovating companies and industry associations before the Belgian and European civil and administrative courts.

Burak Keskin

is a lawyer and attorney-at-law registered with Istanbul Bar Association. After having graduated from Galatasaray University, Law Faculty, Mr. Keskin joined a prominent Turkish law firm in Istanbul where he focused mostly on M&A deals and capital markets transactions while completing his statutory internship of one year. In that period, he participated in Istanbul Arbitration Center’s platform for young lawyers and published translations from German into Turkish in taxation. Fluent in English and French, in Spring 2019, he went on for a trimestrial secondment as a lawyer in Switzerland where he worked on Swiss commercial and ip law. From 2017 on, he has practiced intellectual property law in representation of various international and well known clients, particularly with a view to securing their trademark, trade dress, geographical indication, design, domain name and patent rights, managed trademark and design portfolios of global automotive, fashion, pharmaceutical and media & entertainment companies and has been counselling and specializing in data protection, employment and real estate-construction law in Turkey.

Flavia Marisi

is an Associate in the International Arbitration Group of Hanotiau & van den Berg. Her practice focuses on international commercial and investment arbitration, both ad hoc and under a variety of institutional rules. Dr. Marisi’s experience covers various sectors including construction, mining, energy and natural resources, real estate, telecommunications, transports, and sale of goods. Prior to joining hvdb, Dr. Marisi worked at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Commission, both international and boutique law firms, and an environmental ngo. She regularly speaks on topics related to arbitration and investment law, is a guest lecturer at the University of Milano-Bicocca since 2012, and has taught in several other universities across Europe and Asia. She is the author of Environmental Interests in Investment Arbitration: Challenges and Directions (Wolters Kluwer, 2020) and of more than 40 journal articles and book chapters. She holds a Ph.D. in Law from Ghent University, an ll.m. from the College of Europe, Bruges, and a Master of Laws from the University of Milan. Dr. Marisi is a member of the bar of Pescara (Italy) where she was admitted in 2014, and is registered with the Brussels Bar. She speaks Italian, English, French, Spanish, and has a knowledge of Serbo-Croatian.

Giulia Meloni

is Research Manager at the licos Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance at the University of Leuven (Belgium), Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (ceps) in Brussels, and Part-time Professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ulb). She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Leuven, a Master’s degree in Advanced Economics from the same university and a Bachelor’s degree from luiss University, Rome. Previously, Giulia was a Robert M. Solow Post-Doctoral Fellow and a short-term consultant at the European Commission and the United Nations. She has published on wine regulations, political economy, European agricultural and food policy, international trade and institutional reform.

Anisha Mistry

holds a BSc (Hons) degree from Sheffield Hallam University. She has worked as a Food & Drink Editor and Writer for food and drink magazines in the United Kingdom and Australia and The National in the United Arab Emirates. Anisha specialises in Food and Consumer Policy, wines, olive oils and vinegar. Her research interests include History and Development of Food Law and EU Food Law. She provides artisan and small scale food producers with the advice needed to navigate food law and allergen guidance for food businesses. Anisha was also a Senior Consultant for Deloitte in Alicante, Spain and a Senior Technical Writer at the European Union Intellectual Property Office, where she worked on various Convergence Projects including CP10 – Criteria for assessing disclosure of designs on the Internet and CP12 – Evidence in Trade Mark Appeal Proceedings.

Anke Moerland

is Assistant Professor of Intellectual Property Law in the European and International Law Department, Maastricht University. Her research relates to the interface of intellectual property law with 1) innovation and 2) political science. She focusses on the areas of trade marks and geographical indications, in particular on the role these rights play in new technological environments. She is also interested in governance aspects of intellectual property regulation, the negotiation settings of ip chapters in free trade agreements and the external relations of the EU in the field of intellectual property protection and enforcement in third countries. Anke holds degrees in law (Maastricht University) and international relations (Technical University Dresden), with a PhD in Intellectual property protection in EU bilateral trade agreements from Maastricht University. Since 2017, she coordinates the eipin Innovation Society, a 4-year Horizon 2020 grant under the Marie Skłodowska Curie Action itn-ejd. She can be reached by email at anke.moerland@maastrichtuniversity.nl.

Wayne Morrison

is Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London. Originally from New Zealand he obtained his llb and Laws Professional from the University of Canterbury, came to London and worked as a cook and co-licensee of London’s largest Squash centre where he opened a wine bar and then undertook his llm at the lse. Subsequently his phd was on the philosophy of Punishment and he has taught and researched in Criminology, Legal Theory and the Holocaust. He was awarded an lld for published work in which the themes of modernity, subjectivity and the ‘other’ are prevalent. Increasingly he writes in a manner in which theory is seen as returning to its origins, that is to travelling and recounting to the audience the experience of travelling and the lessons learnt. For the last few years he has been working on a project entitled The Jurisprudence of Wine which seeks to bring Legal Theory down to the pavement, the wine bar, the vineyard and the choices involved in wine from grape to consumption.

Rostam J. Neuwirth

is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law of University of Macau where he also serves as the Head of Department of Global Legal Studies. He received his PhD degree from the European University Institute (eui) in Florence (Italy) and also holds a Master’s degree in Law (ll.m.) from the Faculty of Law of McGill University in Montreal (Canada). His undergraduate studies he spent at the University of Graz (Austria) and the Université d’Auvergne (France). Previously, he taught at the West Bengal University of Juridical Sciences (nujs) in Kolkata (India) and the Hidayatullah National Law University (hnlu) in Raipur (India). Prior to that, he worked for two year as a legal adviser in the Department of European Law in the Völkerrechtsbüro (International Law Bureau) of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He has published more than 100 academic items on a great variety of legal issues and related fields with a particular focus on the culture and trade debate as well as other “trade and … problems”. Most recently he authored a monograph called “Law in the Time of Oxymora: A Synaesthesia of Language, Logic and Law” (Routledge, 2018), some ideas of which have been presented in a TEDxMacau talk in 2017. He also co-edited a volume entitled “The brics-Lawyers' Guide to Global Cooperation” (Cambridge University Press, 2017). His core research interests focus on transdisciplinary aspects of the complexity of law in a globalizing world and inter alia cover international economic law (iel) and wto Law; European Union (EU) Law; international cultural law; comparative law; law and technology; and intellectual property law, as well as the role of senses in law (legal synaesthesia).

Ana Penteado

is a trade marks attorney registered at the Trans-Tasman IP Attorneys Board since 2016. She received her first law degree in 1994 at Mackenzie University, School of Law becoming a licensed member of the Brazilian Bar Association in the same year. In 1997, she earned a Legum Magister, ll.m., from the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley Law (Boalt Hall) on international law with specialization on intellectual property law. Her thesis is entitled International Law and International Finance Institutions – A Comparative Study. In 2009, as an iMURs scholarship holder, she was awarded her doctorate with her thesis entitled International Intellectual Property and International Environmental Law: a study of ownership of Indigenous People’s Intellectual Property Rights. Her article The Law of the Land: intangible and tangible rights in Aboriginal Australia is published at Revista de Direito Economico e Socioambiental (2012) (English version available). She has presented several submissions to the Australian Parliament concerning intellectual property legislation and policy-making affecting Aboriginal Peoples intangible rights connected to Traditional Knowledge. Her working papers published at ssrn are Claiming Anything Under the Sun: A Study of Appropriation of Plants in the Intellectual Property Framework and It’s a Matter of Trust: Joint Inventorship and Traditional Knowledge Owners. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia.

Laurence Ponty

is a lawyer at Archipel, a boutique international law firm with offices in Geneva and Paris. She has over ten years’ experience representing private and state-owned entities of the cis and the emea regions in complex arbitration proceedings under all major arbitration rules. She also has experience in cross-border litigation and enforcement proceedings and regularly sits as an arbitrator. Prior to joining Archipel, Laurence practiced international arbitration at Lalive in Geneva and worked as counsel at the London Court of International Arbitration (lcia), where she administered numerous arbitration proceedings. Laurence is qualified in France and England & Wales and is registered to practice in Geneva. She holds a Master in International Commercial Law from University Paris I Panthéon – Sorbonne (2003), as well as a Master’s degree in Business Law and a postgraduate diploma in Russian Law from University Paris X Nanterre (2002). Laurence is an active member of numerous professional associations, including the International Wine Law Association. She is the author of various publications on international arbitration issues and regularly speaks at conferences and training programmes.

Antonio Rossi

is Professor of wine legislation at the University of Milan (Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences). He is a specialist of wine regulatory with particular expertise in the regulation of the Italian market of wine. Between 2009 and 2011 he was a member of the National Committee on Wines with a pdo at the Ministry of Agricultural Policies of Italy. His activity also covers other relevant fields, such as proceedings relating to the prosecution of fraud. After having been the director of the legal department of Unione Italiana Vini (uiv) for many years, Antonio is now a consultant for uiv and lectures and writes extensively on wine regulatory. His publications include the Codice della Vite e del Vino, a comprehensive collection of the Italian legislation on wine, that has reached in 2018 the fourteenth edition and the Codice delle Denominazioni di Origine dei Vini, a comprehensive collection of Italian products specifications of wine, that has reached in 2018 the eleventh edition, both published in Milan by uiv.

Baptiste Rigaudeau

specialises in international dispute resolution, with a focus on commercial and investor-State arbitration disputes. He has experience acting as counsel and secretary to international arbitration tribunals under icc, hkiac, siac, scc, cietac, cmap, viac, icsid and uncitral rules, in proceedings governed by various procedural and substantive laws, both common and civil. He has experience in the energy, particularly in oil, gas and mining, food and beverage, banking, telecommunications, hotel and pharmaceuticals sectors. He also has experience in cross-border litigation and asset recovery matters. He is a member of the icc’s Commission on the Belt & Road Initiative, of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the International Wine Law Association. He regularly speaks at conferences and has published several articles on international arbitration and foreign investment protection. He is admitted to practice in Paris and in Geneva (Foreign Lawyer).

Diego Saluzzo

is a partner in Grande Stevens, an Italian boutique law firm specialized in commercial law with offices in Turin, Milan, Rome and London. He boasts a considerable experience as business lawyer and former General Counsel in multinational companies, in a carrier made of twenty five years of international transactions made of many significant multi-jurisdictional and extremely complex deals all over the world, now followed by many years of private practice. His expertise covers most aspects of mainstream corporate and commercial law, mainly in M&A, joint ventures and commercial agreements. Active member of the Food Law Commission of the Union International des Avocats and Member of the Management Committee of ugivi, the Italian Association of Wine Lawyers. Lecturer at Turin University – Department of Management in private international law – food law and research fellow at iuse – International Institute of European Studies, he is editor, author and contributor of various legal books and articles attaining commercial law, food law, compliance, product liability, health law and cross-border transactions.

Johan Swinnen

is director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (ifpri) since 2020. Prior to joining ifpri, Dr. Swinnen was professor of economics and director of the licos Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance at ku Leuven (Belgium) and senior research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. Dr. Swinnen was a lead economist at the World Bank from 2003 to 2004 and economic adviser to the European Commission from 1998 to 2001. Dr. Swinnen earned his PhD from Cornell University (USA) and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Göttingen (Germany) and the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra (Slovakia). He is a fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association and the European Association of Agricultural Economists, and he served as president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists from 2012 to 2015. Dr. Swinnen has published extensively on agricultural and food policies, international development, political economy, institutional reforms, trade, and global value chains, and his body of work has been widely cited.

Aleksander Stępkowski

is Professor of law at the Faculty of Law and Administration University of Warsaw. Director of the Sociology of Law Chair. Holds Ph.D. and post-doctoral degree (habilitation) in legal sciences. In February 2019 he has been appointed judge within the Chamber of Constitutional Review and Public Affairs of the Polish Supreme Court. His research activity focuses on private and public comparative law including development of judicial review in Western legal culture, as well as political and legal thought. Fellow of the Foundation for Polish Science (2000 and 2001), scholar at the University of Manchester (1999), the University of Oxford (2002), and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2003). In 2015–2016, Undersecretary of state responsible for legal, treaty and human rights in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Founder and the first president of the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture.

Lisa Toohey

is a Professor of Law at the University of Newcastle, Australia. A recognised international expert on international trade law and dispute resolution, Professor Toohey is a nominated member of the Asian wto Research Network, and a former Executive Council member of the Society of International Economic Law. She is also a Senior Member of the Universities Australia Executive Women Group and an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales. In 2020, Professor Toohey was awarded the Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Australian-American Alliance Studies, funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Her publications include The Future of International Economic Integration and China in the International Economic Order, both published by Cambridge University Press.

Luca Valente

is an intellectual property lawyer with expertise in civil litigation, international private law and it law. He is admitted as a solicitor in Italy and currently practices before the Bar of Turin. Luca has represented clients in ip proceedings before Italian ip courts, the euipo, the uibm and the epo. He holds an llm in ip from the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (miplc) and he is the author of several ip publications related to trademarks, geographical indications and patents. Luca is also a visiting lecturer on EU trademark law at the Jindal Global Law School in Sonipat, India.

Leszek Wiwała

is an excise law specialist with the experience of advocacy of interests in the legislative processes in Poland and at the EU level. He is a President of the Polish Organisation of Oil Industry and Trade. He used to represent alcoholic beverages producers at various positions from 2004 to 2018, most of the time as a President of the Polish Spirits Industry Association. Leszek participated in the European Commission Spirits Advisor Committee, the Civil Dialogue Group on horticulture, olives and spirits and the Round Table meetings on alcohol denaturants in EU. He was Vice-President of the European Spirit Organization (now spiritsEurope) from 2009 to 2011. He was developing the idea of business social responsibility especially targeted to reduce alcohol related harms. He was an author and publisher of the book From gorzalka to vodka. Polish Vodka history.

Lindsey A. Zahn

has counseled wine, beer, and spirits companies on U.S. licensing and compliance, federal and state labeling, customs regulations, supplier agreements, and advertising and promotions. She has also represented clients before the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau in regard to petitioning the approval of new grape variety names. She is an award-winning author on wine law, publishes a leading wine law blog On Reserve, and has traveled to over a dozen wine regions in the U.S. and Europe. She has led talks and instructed classes on wine law throughout the country and in France at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne. In 2014 and 2015, her blog was nominated as one of the Top 100 Legal Blogs by the aba Journal and, in 2016, she was named one of the Top 20 Women Faculty by Lawline for a course she teaches on wine law.