Elaine Fahey
Elaine Fahey is Professor of Law at the Institute for the Study of European Law (ISEL), the City Law School, City, University of London. She has been awarded an Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Chair in Law and Transatlantic Relations.
Her research interests span the relationship between EU law and global governance, trade, transatlantic relations, the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and the study of law beyond the State. Her monograph, The EU as a Global Digital Actor has been published by Hart in 2022.
Elaine Fahey
Data is the ‘lifeblood’ of the economies and digital trade across the world, but it is also the source of much concern about privacy rights, the capacity for commercial manipulation of personal information, and State and private actor disputes. Institutionalisation can synthesise these many cross-cutting themes and transatlantic efforts in the area of data privacy constitutes a key case study on this topic.