Prof. Dr. Boris P. Paal, M.Jur. (Oxford) holds the chair for Law and Regulation of the Digital Transformation at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He serves as Of Counsel at BAUMGARTNER BAUMANN (a boutique law firm for data and digital regulation), and practices as a certified business mediator. From 2020 to 2023, he served as a judge at the Hamburg District Court (chamber for IP and IT Law). Professor Paal has more than 25 years of experience in academia and legal advisory. He is the editor and author of leading commentaries and influential publications in data and digital regulation. Professor Paal has authored more than 250 publications, including standard works on privacy, information, media, and data law. He advises public and private institutions in various capacities and serves on several advisory boards. Among others, he acts as an expert to the European Commission, the German Bundestag, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Leibniz Institute for Media Research, and EUMETSAT. Research stays and guest lectureships have included stays and guest lectures at leading international universities, including Berkeley, Cambridge (UK), Harvard, New York (Columbia, Fordham, NYU), Oxford (UK), Peking (CUPL, Tsinghua), Seoul (SNU), Shanghai (ECUPL, Jiao Tong), Stanford, and Yale.
Boris Paal
Chair for Law and Regulation of the Digital Transformation, TU Munich; Of Counsel & Business Mediator