This is the second episode of our arc on “metaverse and the law”: host Raffaele Battaglini interviews guest speaker Prof. Francisco de Elizalde on the following topics:
1. main challenges that global metaverses pose for EU consumer law
2. how and to what extent other EU Regulations or Directives may complement consumer law in the context of the metaverse.
About:
Francisco de Elizalde (Ph.D., LLM) is an Associate Professor of Private Law at IE Law School, IE University. He was the Chair of Legal Studies (Head of Faculty, 2020-22) and is the head of the Civil Law area of expertise. Since 2022, Prof. Elizalde is the Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for Law & Automation, co-financed by the European Commission. He is a permanent Visiting Professor at Koç University (Turkey) and has held Visiting Professorship positions at City University of Hong Kong and FGV Sao Paulo (Brazil). Prof. Elizalde was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. He conducted research at Harvard Law School and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Germany). He takes part in Spanish and European research projects. Prof. Elizalde practiced law at Garrigues Litigation and Arbitration Department for several years. He is a member of the Madrid Bar Association, the American Society of Comparative Law, and the European Law Institute. Prof. Elizalde has acted as a legal expert in judicial and arbitral proceedings in Spain and abroad. He has consulted for the European Parliament on collective redress. His work has been cited by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
