Founders – European Network on Fairness in Digital Markets and Artificiell Intelligence https://fidma.org Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:10:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 Behrang Kianzad https://fidma.org/behrang-kianzad/ https://fidma.org/behrang-kianzad/#respond Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:34:03 +0000 https://fidma.org/?p=933 Dr. Behrang Kianzad, founder and executive Director of FIDMA, holds a LLM (2015) in Law from Lund University, Sweden, and a PhD (2022) in Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law and Economics from University of Copenhagen. Having completed a post-doc at University of Copenhagen, and another post-doc with a grant from Johan and Jakob Söderberg Foundation at Department of Business Law, School of Economics, Lund University, he is since September 2025 employed as senior researcher and lecturer at Institute of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, on a three-year grant from Swedish Competition Authority.
Behrang Kianzad is an international expert on the matter of Competition Law, Economics and Policy, with strong foundations in legal philosophy, intellectual property law and law and economics, and have written and presented widely on the subject. His publications are found at Oxford, Cambridge, Springer, Edward Elgar and some of the leading Competition Law, IP Law and Health Law journals. He is also a reviewer for European Journal of Law and Economics and contributing author to Encyclopaedia of Law and Economics and Concurrences Global Dictionary.
His main research topics deal with the intersection of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, and the Law and Economics approaches related to both areas of law.
He has presented his research at numerous international conferences, held expert meetings for various Competition Authorities, European Commission, World Health Organisation, Doctors Without Borders and many more.
Before joining the academia he worked some 15 years as journalist, editor and lecturer in journalism, where he co-authored a course book on multiculturalism, and went on to work and lecture on digital communications. Among his former employers are Swedish Radio & TV, TIME Magazine, European Commission and Swedish Aid Agency to name a few.

]]> https://fidma.org/behrang-kianzad/feed/ 0 Fabrizio Esposito https://fidma.org/fabrizio-esposito/ https://fidma.org/fabrizio-esposito/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:27:33 +0000 https://fidma.org/?p=370 Dr. Fabrizio Esposito is Associate Professor in Private Law at the NOVA School of Law, where he coordinates with Professor Orlando Scarcello the Master’s in Law Applied to Technology (Law & Tech) and the Data-Driven Law Knowledge Centre with Professor Margarida Lima Rego. He is also Librarian Professor, and a member of the NOVA Consumer Lab. Outside NOVA, Fabrizio coordinates the MetaLawEcon network and is an analyst for EU Law Live.

His research focuses on the relationship between private law, economic law, EU law, economics and legal theory. He is particular interested in the intersect between consumer law, data protection, competition law, and sector specific legislation in addressing the challenges raised by technological developments in the attention economy. He is currently working on price personalization, and the use of theories of harm in consumer law with a special attention to consumer data collecion. Fabrizio is about to publish a monograph showing how to change the mainstream research paradigm at the intersect between law and economics by taking the consumer interest as core value in market regulation.

Fabrizio publishes regularly in international journals such as: Computer Law & Security Review, the European Review of Contract Law, the Journal of Consumer Policy, the European Journal of Risk Regulation, the European Competition Journal. He has co-edited two volumes: Research Methods in Consumer Law (with H-W Micklitz and A-L Sibony; EE 2018) and Economics in Legal Reasoning (with P Cserne; Palgrave 2020). He was in charge of the legal theory section of the European Journal of Legal Studies, writes twice per year for the European Review of Contract Law about recent developments in EU contract law.

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