Yaniv Benhamou

Presentation

Yaniv Benhamou is Associate Professor of Digital, Information and Media Law at the Faculty of Law.

His research focuses mainly on emerging technologies (e.g. AI & Web3) and the articulation between legal regimes (data protection, intellectual property and data law). It also focuses on the cultural and creative sector (e.g. impact of digital on the value chain), on the collective dimension of data (e.g. digital commons, open source, data trusts, collective actions) and on soft-law mechanisms (e.g. labels and certifications).

He has completed several research stays, including at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University (2018), the Centre for Media and Communications Law (CMCL) at Melbourne Law School (2016) and the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich (2006).

Since 2015, he has co-organized the Digital Law Summer School with Prof. Jacques de Werra. Since 2018, he has been mandated as an international expert by WIPO on copyright and museums, and in particular author of the Report on Copyright Practices and Challenges of Museums, as well as on Big Data and intellectual property. He has also co-directed a research project on the digitization of art (Digitization of Museum Collections).

Since 2019, he has been in charge of several institutional missions at the Rectorate linked to the University's digital transformation, in particular in charge of the "Comprendre le numérique" cross-disciplinary course and the "Parlons numérique" conferences. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Digital Law Center (DLC), the CAS Digital Law Finance Law and the Art Law Center.

In addition to his academic activities, he is a member of the Radio and Television Supervisory Authority (AIEP), which decides on complaints against the media. He also works as Of Counsel in a Geneva law firm and is a member of the Commission Innovations et Modernisation du Barreau (CIMBAR). He is also active in the cultural field. In particular, he was assistant curator of the exhibition Controverses: une histoire éthique et juridique de la photographie organized by the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne (Artcurial Prize for best contemporary art book 2008), co-founded Artists Rights, pro bono legal advice to artists (i.e. pro bono lawyers for the arts in collaboration with lab-of-arts and rosabrux) and regularly teaches copyright law to museums as part of AMS (Association des Musées Suisses) legal training courses.