Affiliations

Conferences / Lectures

CONFERENCES - LECTURES [brief list until 2015] Institutions abroad at which I have presented lectures, invited talks, and peer-reviewed conference papers include:

Université Pierre-et-Marie Curie (Les Cordeliers, Sorbonne Universités) – Paris, France, 2014.
University of Rovira and Virgili (Tarragona, Spain), 2010.
University of San Diego (San Diego, CA), 2007.
Institute for Information Law (IvIR), University of Amsterdam, 2012
Edinburgh Law School, UK, 2012
Linkoping University, Sweden, 2004
NEXA Center for Internet and Society, Polytechnic of Torino, Italy, 2013
Heinrich Heine University in Dusseldorf, Germany (2012)
Sakaraya University, United Arab Emirates, Dubai
Cypriot Bioethics Commission, Limassol, Cyprus
University of Tubingen Germany 2012
University of Cyprus, 2010, 2007, 2008
University of Pavia, Mantua, 2010
ZKM Media School, University of Karlsruhe 2005

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12.11.2015 “Father”, pregnant woman, fetus, parents, child: Do we have equal protection in civil law or discrimination on prenatal testing compensation claims?
Colloquium, Prenatal testing, Medical and Legal aspects, Nomiki Vivliothiki, 12.11.2015, 17.30pm

24.9.2015 [16.00-18.00], How open data became proprietary in the European Court of Justice
A lecture for the NEXA Center for Internet and Society
The presentation deals with the legal protection of databases in Europe. An unfair competition model, as proposed before the enactment of the databases Directive 96/9 turned into a clear copyright model, with the difference that this time, a new sui generis right was instituted to protect not original works of the mind but data collections. The cases that came before the ECJ on the interpretation of the Directive gave the chance to “domesticate”, as Professor Hugenholtz has aptly described, this unruly database right. The Court for a long time limited the application of the Directive to cases where unfair use was truly present. But in 2015, with Ryanair, the Court took an abrupt step to the entirely wrong direction: towards rendering proprietary, at any terms, data that never before one would deem possible to be enclosed as such. The choice is now ours: either we fight, as quickly as we can, to negate the results of this manifestly wrong decision, or we decide that in the EU, there can be no open data, public data, anymore. - See more at: http://nexa.polito.it/2015/09/mbottis#sthash.frWBSMQ3.dpuf

How open data become proprietary in the European Court of Justice world, E-Democracy conference, Citizen rights in the world of the new computing paradigms, Athens, December 2015 http://www.edemocracy2015.eu/?page_id=81

08.05.2015, Εthics in the information age ,Athens, organization of the Department of Librarianship and Information Systems, http://www.ionio.gr/central/gr/news/read/6920 , Related material

16.1.2015, «Informed consent in facial aesthetic surgery», presentation in the conference “Medical Liability and Bioethics III-the Human Face”, Ionian Univeristy/IHRC, Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2015, 16 -17 January 2015 with the collaboration of Ε-Themis and with the sponsoring by the Onassis Foundation, http://mrbc.gr/

23.4.2015, «The influence of the history of data protection on politics», presentation for the Workshop organized by the Society for the Transfer and Didactic of the History of Science and Technology (EMDIET) titled «Does History Matter?», Department of Methodology, History and Theory of Science, Athens, 23.4.2015

22.5.2015, «Civil Liability for medical negligence and informed consent in teams-an allocation of liabilities», presentation in the 13ο Symposium of Intensive Care Units of the Armed Forces, May 22-23, http://www.armyicu.gr/
Video of the speech