Felipe is a Principal Lecturer and Research Degrees Leader at Hertfordshire Law School. He is an Executive Committee member of the British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association (BILETA). He specialises in IT/IP law and holds a PhD, an LLM by Research in IT/IP and an LLM in International Trade and Commercial Law, all of these from Oxford Brookes University. His research primarily focuses on the intersection of new and emerging technologies (eg AI) with human rights such as, intellectual property, privacy, data protection, freedom of expression and due process. Felipe is a law graduate from the Spanish Complutense University of Madrid in Spain and loves doing his research by chasing keywords using a red pen and a yellow highlighter.

PhD, LLM and LLB dissertation supervision:

Felipe is happy to supervise PhD, LLM and LLB dissertations in the field of Information Technology/Intellectual Property with a particular focus on the intersection of new and emerging technologies (eg AI) with human rights such as, intellectual property, privacy, data protection, freedom of expression and due process.

• EU Copyright reform ie Article 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market 
• Notice and takedown and notice and staydown/upload filter systems 
• Privacy
• Data protection ie the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• AI-specific regulation
• Automated decision-making and profiling
• Microtarged political advertising and manipulation
• Fake news and misinformation 
• Facial recognition technology 
• Freedom of expression
• Due process

• Information Technology
• Intellectual Property