Martin Husovec

Martin Husovec [pronounce as Husovets, or Husoveck] is an Assistant Professor of Law at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His scholarship deals with questions of innovation policy and digital liberties, in particular, regulation of intellectual property and freedom of expression.

Martin Husovec obtained his Ph.D. from the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, and Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich for his work on injunctions against intermediaries (published with Cambridge University Press, 2017). Between 2015-2020, he was Assistant Professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, appointed jointly by Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) and Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC). He held visiting appointments at Stanford Law School (2014), the Japanese Institute for Intellectual Property (2015), the Central European University (2018) the European University Institute (2018), and Cambridge University (2019). Martin is a fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet & Society (CIS), CREATe, and TILEC.

Martin is a member of the European Copyright Society (ECS), a group of prominent European copyright scholars. He is also a co-founder of a think-tank, European Information Society Institute, which acts as amicus curiae before the European Court of Human Rights, and operates a domain name dispute resolution system for skTLD. He was an advisor to the President of the Slovak Constitutional Court, national ministries in Europe and Asia, and various EU institutions in the areas of intellectual property, freedom of expression, and privacy. His work was repeatedly cited by Advocate Generals at the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation (2012 — 2016)
• Magister Iuris Pavol Jozef Safarik University (2006 — 2011)
• Masarykova univerzita Brno (2009 — 2010)

Companies

• Assistant Professor in Law The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2020)
• Affiliated Researcher Stanford University Center for Internet and Society (2014)
• Member of the Board European Information Society Institute (2010)
• Appointed Expert at the Observatory on the Online Platform Economy European Commission (2018 — 2020)
• Assistant Professor Tilburg University (2015 — 2020)
• Visting Professor Central European University (2018 — 2019)
• Lecturer Leibniz Universität (2015 — 2016)
• Invited Researcher Japanese Intellectual Property Institute (2015 — 2015)
• Academic Tutor Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (2013 — 2015)

Skills

• Corporate Law
• Legal Assistance
• Corporate Governance