Alan Sears
Lecturer
- Name
- A.M. Sears
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 8154
- a.m.sears@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-7610-9000
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).
Lecturer
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Metajuridica
- eLaw@Leiden
- Zardiashvili A. & Sears A.M. (2023), Targeted advertising and consumer protection law in the European Union, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 56(3): 799-852.
- Häuselmann A.N., Sears A.M., Zardiashvili A. & Fosch Villaronga E. (2023), EU Law and emotion data, 11th international conference on affective computing and intelligent interaction (ACII): 10-13 Sept. 2023. 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 10 September 2023 - 13 September 2023: IEEE.
- Custers B.H.M., Fosch-Villaronga E., Hof S. van der, Schermer B.W., Sears A.M. & Tamò-Larrieux A. (2022), The role of consent in an algorithmic society: its evolution, scope, failings, and re-conceptualization. In: Kosta E., Leenes R.E. & Kamara I. (Eds.), Research Handbook on EU Data Protection Law. Research Handbooks in European Law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 455-473.
- Nišević M., Sears A.M., Fosch-Villaronga E. & Custers B.H.M. (2022), Understanding the legal bases for automated decision-making under the GDPR. In: Kosta E., Leenes R. & Kamara I. (Eds.), Research Handbook on EU Data Protection Law. Research Handbooks in European Law. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 435-454.
- Rest J.I. van der, Sears A.M., Kuokkanen H. & Heidary K. (2022), Algorithmic pricing in hospitality and tourism: call for research on ethics, consumer backlash and CSR, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights 5(4): 771-781.
- Rest J.I. van der, Sears A.M., Miao L. & Wang L. (2020), A note on the future of personalized pricing: cause for concern, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management 19(2): 113-118.
- Lara Gálvez J.C. & Sears A.M. (2020), The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Internet Intermediary Liability in Latin America. In: Frosio G. (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability. Oxford Handbooks in Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 172-189.
- Sears A.M. (2020), The Limits of Online Price Discrimination in Europe, Columbia Science and Technology Law Review 21(1): 1-42.
- Sears A.M. (2020), Algorithmic speech and freedom of expression, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 53(4): 1327-1376.
- Bachlechner D., Friedewald M., Weitkamp J., Prill M.A., La Fors K., Sears A.M. & Custers B.H.M. (2019), Overview of design requirements (D4.2): Horizon2020 of the European Commission.
- Custers B.H.M., Sears A.M., Dechesne F., Georgieva I.N., Tani T. & Hof S. van der (2019), EU Personal Data Protection in Policy and Practice. Information technology & law series no. 29. Heidelberg: Asser/Springer.
- Leiser M.R., Kalis P., Sears A.M., Noonan D., Ossmann-Magiera L. & Mo D. (2019), Zero-rating: ‘positive net neutrality’ and the material reduction of consumer choice. . Belfast: BILETA Annual Conference (16-17 April 2019).
- La Fors K., Bachlechner D., Sears A.M., Custers B.H.M. & Friedewald M. (2019), E-Sides Community Position Paper (CPP): Towards a more accountable big data governance and responsible innovation of privacy-preserving technologies: Horizon2020 of the European Commission (Deliverable 5.3).
- Bachlechner D., Friedewald M., La Fors K., Sears A.M. & Custers B.H.M. (2019), Recommendations and conclusions (E-Sides Deliverable 5.2): Horizon2020 of the European Commission.
- La Fors K., Sears A.M., Bachlechner D., Friedwald M., Weitkamp J., Prill M.A. & Custers B. (2018), Results of the gap analysis: Horizon2020 of the European Commission.
- Bachlechner D., Friedewald M., Weitkamp J., Prill M.A., La Fors K. & Sears A.M. (2018), Assessment of Existing Technologies.
- Custers B.H.M., Dechesne F., Sears A.M., Tani T. & Hof S. van der (2018), A comparison of data protection legislation and policies across the EU, Computer Law and Security Review 34(2): 234-243.
- Bachlechner D., La Fors K. & Sears A.M. (2018), The Role of Privacy-Preserving Technologies in the Age of Big Data, Proceedings of the 13th Pre-ICIS Workshop on Information Security and Privacy, San Francisco, December 13, 2018. . San Francisco: AIS SIGSEC, Bright Internet & Trust, and IFIP TC.