Elena Lazăr

Elena Lazăr is currently a lawyer at the law firm Lazar Elena, specializing in European human rights law and new technologies law. She graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Bucharest in 2010 and from the Franco-Romanian College, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. She continued with a Master's degree in International and European Business Law at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and a Master's degree in Private Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Bucharest. Since 2015 she has been a Doctor of Law (magna cum laude) of the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest in the field of Human Rights. In the same field and within the same institution, she completed a postdoctoral degree in 2019, also following a postdoctoral internship in New Technologies Law at the University of Paris Panthéon Assas in the fall of 2020. She also attended the ASSER Institute 2021 Winter Academy on Artificial Intelligence and International Law. After completing her studies, she joined the Law Faculty of the University of Bucharest, where, as an Associate Professor, she teaches Public International Law, Media Law, Data Protection and Security Information, and European Internet Law. From 2021 to 2022, she also held the position of EUROJUST expert in the EuroMed Justice program. At the same time, she is executive editor of the Romanian Journal of International Law (www.rrdi.ro) and executive director of the Centre for International and Transnational Law Studies. Currently, she is an expert for the Siracuse Institute for Human Rights and Criminal Justice.