Eva Cellina

Presentation

Eva Cellina is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva, where she teaches digital legal research, as well as cross-disciplinary courses on understanding digital technology I and II.

A qualified lawyer, she worked for six years as a legal counsel for a global leader in the semiconductor industry. There, she gained in-depth expertise in technology law, intellectual property, and data protection, notably by negotiating and drafting complex international agreements in the fields of IT contracts, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and intellectual property licensing.

Her research focuses primarily on digital law and its contractual framework, as well as data protection and the legal issues surrounding artificial intelligence. She devoted her doctoral thesis to the commercialization of personal data, focusing mainly on aspects of contract law and data protection. In this context, she spent a research period at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University in 2016.

In parallel with her academic activities, Eva Cellina co-founded swissprivacy.law, an association that publishes free reports and commentary on legal news relating to data protection and transparency.