Alan M. Sears is a lecturer and the academic coordinator of the Advanced LL.M. in Law and Digital Technologies. He has been affiliated with eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies since April 2018.

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Biography

Alan M. Sears is a lecturer and the academic coordinator of the Advanced LL.M. in Law and Digital Technologies. He has been affiliated with eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies since April 2018.

Alan received a B.A. in Psychology and Business Administration from Baylor University, a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame, and an LL.M. in Law and Digital Technologies from Leiden University. He has worked as a researcher with Article 19 Mexico and Central America and with Derechos Digitales in Chile, as a law clerk and researcher for Justice Madlanga of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and as a Google Policy Fellow with Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) in Colombia.

Research

At eLaw, Alan conducts research as part of the EU-funded AI4Europe project, which develops the AI on-Demand platform. His current research examines the legal limits of online personalization, with a focus on targeted advertising, price discrimination/personalization, and personalized content. He has previously worked on the EU-funded e-SIDES project, which explored the ethical, social, and legal challenges surrounding privacy-preserving big data technologies. Alan’s research interests include freedom of expression and privacy/data protection online, and he has also researched issues ranging from Internet governance to intermediary liability and telecommunications regulations (particularly net neutrality and zero rating).

Publications