The Legal Challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Dário Moura Vicente is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, where he has taught, over the past 30 years, Private International Law, Comparative Law, Civil Law, Information Society Law and Intellectual Property Law. He is also the Chairman of the Portuguese Society for Intellectual Property Law (Associação Portuguesa de Direito Intelectual) and the Chairman of the Lisbon Centre for Research in Private Law (CIDP) (Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado), whose research line on Private Law in the Digital Era he coordinates.

Sofia de Vasconcelos Casimiro is a Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, Portugal and at the Portuguese Military Academy, teaching, inter alia, information technology and law. She has taught at NATO Communications and Information Systems School (NCISS), European Security and Defence College (ESDC) and European Defence Agency (EDA). Sofia is also a lawyer and, as a legal advisor, has provided advise in ICT law to the Ministry of National Defence, the Ministry of Justice and big tech companies, including some of the Big Five. She works with the Portuguese Army in cybersecurity and cyber defence, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese Society for Intellectual Property Law and a member of the Lisbon Centre for Research in Private Law (CIDP) (Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado).

Chen Chen is a Guest Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, a lawyer at Vieira de Almeida & Associados – Sociedade de Advogados SP RL (VdA) and a researcher at the Lisbon Centre for Research in Private Law (CIDP) (Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado).