Billede af Christopher Barth Kuner

Christopher Barth Kuner

Dr.

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1990 …2023

Publikationer pr. år

Personlig profil

CV

Positions

Affiliated Professor of Data Protection Law, University of Copenhagen, 2022-Present

Senior Fellow, Future of Privacy Forum, March 2023-Present

Senior Privacy Counsel, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Brussels, 2012-Present

Visiting Fellow, Maastricht European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity, Maastricht University, 2018-Present

Founder and Co-Director, Brussels Privacy Research Hub, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, October 2014-June 2023

Professor of Law, Interdisciplinary Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, July 2015-June 2023

Member of the International Law Association (ILA)
Committee on the Protection of Privacy in Private International and Procedural Law, 2015-2022

Honorary Affiliated Professor, Department of Law, University of Copenhagen, 2013-2018

Associated assistant professor, University of Copenhagen, 2010-2013

Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 2012-2017

Partner, Hunton & Williams, Brussels, 2002-2012

Of Counsel, Morrison & Foerster, Brussels, 1998-2002

Associate, Gleiss Lutz, Frankfurt, 1993-1998

Education

Tilburg Law School, Tilburg, The Netherlands, PhD in data protection law, 2013

New York University School of Law, LL.M. in International Legal Studies, 1991

Study at Law Faculty of Cologne University, Germany, 1985

J.D., Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, Indiana USA, 1984

B.A. cum laude, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin USA, 1980

Other positions, activities and honors

Member of the European Commission Multisectoral Stakeholder Expert Group to Support the Application of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, 2017-Present

Visiting Fellow, Chuo University Law School, Tokyo, Japan, July 2019 and November 2022

Visiting Fellow, Department of Law, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, January-April 2019

Visiting Professor, Chuo University Law School, Tokyo, Japan, November 2017

Visiting Professor, Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, 2015-2018

Lecturer, Academy of European Law, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy, July 2016
 
Lecturer, Hague Academy of International Law, special course on “Data protection law and international commercial arbitration” (with Daniel Cooper), summer 2015
 
Awarded the "Best Consumer Supporter" award and medal by the Consumer Affairs Agency of the government of Japan, for services to Japanese consumers and promotion of EU data protection law in Japan, June 2015

Visiting Fellow, Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, March 2014

Visiting Fellow, Centre for European Legal Studies and Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, April 2012-July 2012

Visiting Researcher, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society of Tilburg University (The Netherlands), 2010-2013

Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK,    June-July 2009

External lecturer, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Wirtschaftsuniversität), Vienna, Austria, 2004-May 2011

Consultant to the OECD on data protection legal issues of transborder data flows, 2010-2011

Editor-in-chief, International Data Privacy Law (Oxford University Press), 2010-Present

Named by The Burton Foundation as “One of the Best Law Firm Writers of 2010”

Member, Steering Committee, 32nd International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, Jerusalem, 27-29 October 2010

Visiting fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, 2009

Member of the academic advisory board of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Datenschutz und Datensicherheit” (German Society for Data Protection and Data Security), Bonn, 2006-Present

Chairman, European Privacy Officers Forum (EPOF), 2002-2012

Chairman, Data Protection Task Force of the International Chamberof commerce (ICC), Paris, 1999-2012

Member of the ICC delegation to the Council of Europe Consultative Committee of the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, 1999-2010

Member of the ICC delegation to the Electronic Commerce Working Group of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), 1998-2005

Languages

English and German (native), Russian (intermediate), Italian (basic), French (basic)

Bar admissions

B-list, Brussels Bar

New York Bar (1991)

 

 

Interesseområder

EU and global data protection and privacy law, EU law, human rights law, public international law, private international law, legal aspects of the Internet

Kort præsentation

Dr. Christopher Kuner has been active in EU and global data protection law since the 1990s as a lawyer, author, and academic. He was previously director of the Brussels Privacy Hub and professor of law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), and has taught at the University of Cambridge, the European University Institute, and the Hague Academy of International Law. He is currently Affiliate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, a Visiting Fellow at Maastricht University, and Senior Privacy Counsel in the Brussels office of Wilson Sonsini, as well as being a member of the European Commission's Multisectoral Stakeholder Group on the GDPR. The author of numerous articles and books, Dr. Kuner is founder and editor-in-chief of the law journal International Data Privacy Law and one of the principal editors of the commentary on the GDPR published by Oxford University Press, as well as editor of the OUP monograph series on privacy and data protection law.

Sprogkundskaber

English and German (native), Russian (intermediate), Italian (basic), French (basic)

Primære forskningsområder

EU data protection law, comparative and international data protection and privacy law, international human rights law, compatative constitutional law, legal aspects of the Internet

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

Affiliated lectuter, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

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