J. Scott Colesanti
Hofstra University School of Law

J. Scott Colesanti, LL.M., has taught at Hofstra Law since 2002 and was named Hofstra Law Review’s Professor of the Year in 2006. A former NYSE law clerk, enforcement trial counsel, and securities arbitrator, he brings extensive regulatory and litigation experience to his teaching. He teaches securities regulation and legal writing, advises honors programs, and hosts the Stock Law Now podcast. Professor Colesanti has published more than 40 articles and three books on legal writing, advocacy, and securities law, and is admitted to the bars of New York, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.

Cynthia Boyer
INU Champollion-Framespa/Université de toulouse

Vera Raposo
nova school of law

Edoardo Raffiotta
Professor of Law at the University of Milan Bicocca

Cynthia Boyer has taught since 2006 in the American and British studies program, law degree and Master of International Relations programs at Institut National Universitaire Champollion. She also lectures on U.S. constitutional law and British common law in the LL.B. program at Université Toulouse Capitole. Her fields of research include electoral strategies and campaigns, political systems in Britain, France, and the United States, fundamental liberties (UK-USA), and Liberalism.

Vera Lúcia Raposo is a legal scholar specializing in law and technology. She holds law, master’s, and doctoral degrees from the University of Coimbra and is a Full Professor and Vice-Dean at NOVA School of Law, NOVA University Lisbon. She is active in international health law organizations, serving as a Governor of the World Association for Medical Law and a fellow of the Hastings Centre (2024). She sits on the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Health Law and has widely published on digital and biomedical law, including AI, medical liability, and emerging technologies.

Edoardo Raffiotta is a Professor of Law at the University of Milan Bicocca, a Fellow in the Public Law and Policy Program at UC Berkeley, and Legal Advisor to the Italian Data Protection Authority. He holds a J.D. from the University of Catania and a Ph.D. in Constitutional Law from the University of Bologna, where he previously taught for a decade. His work focuses on AI, tech law, and cybersecurity, and he is the author of several books on artificial intelligence, emergency powers, and constitutional economic governance.

Adele Barzelay
counsel for data and digital development, world bank’s legal operations unit

Adele Barzelay is Counsel for Data and Digital Development in the World Bank’s Legal Operations Unit, where she advises on data policy, regulation, and digital transformation initiatives. She co-authored legal and regulatory chapters of the World Development Report 2021. Previously, she worked with the Bank’s Governance Global Practice in the MENA region, supporting data governance, GovTech, and digital regulatory reform projects across multiple countries.

Nicole N. Morris
Emory University school of law

Anuragini Shirish
Institut Mines-Télécom Business School

Nicole N. Morris is a Professor of Practice at Emory University School of Law and Director of the TI:GER® program, where law students work with technology innovators and Department of Energy National Labs to help bring early-stage technologies to market through legal and commercialization strategies. She frequently speaks on patent law, IP licensing, and patent transactions. Morris is active in several IP and legal organizations and received the 2013 Rising Star Corporate Counsel Award from the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Anuragini Shirish is a Professor at Institut Mines-Télécom Business School in France whose research examines the human and practical impacts of digital work, innovation, and society. Her work appears in leading information systems journals, including JMIS, JAIS, EJIS, and ISJ, and she regularly presents at major international conferences. She has received multiple honors, including the AIS Outstanding Educator Award and the JAIS Best Paper Award (2023).

fernando Garibay
record producer, songwriter, academic, and polymath

Best known for serving as the Musical Director of Lady Gaga’s “Born this Way” Ball and Executive producer of her “Born this Way” album, Fernando has written, produced and creatively directed a multitude of artists, including Lady Gaga, U2, Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, Enrique Iglesias, Bruno Mars, Sia, Kylie Minogue, Shakira, Paris Hilton, and many more.

A former executive at Interscope Records, he has lectured at Harvard University, Harvard Business School, Harvard Medical School, M.I.T., Stanford University, and California Western School of Law. Fernando has also participated with the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders as a keynote speaker, served as a salon contributor, co-produced and co-hosted Digitial Davos—now Davos Worldwide—and served as keynote speaker for the Future Blockchain Summit in Dubai, as well as the 29th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 29) to the UNFCCC.

Fernando is also the founder of the Garibay Institute, the first and only research and development center focused on art, creativity, entertainment, film, gaming, and music as an instrument for soft power, cultural identity and patrimony, intellectual renaissance, and sustainable economic growth.

u.s. magistrate judge allison h goddard
Magistrate Judge, Southern District of California

james Sherer
Partner, BakerHostetler, Co-Chair Emerging Tech team, Leader Information Governance and Artificial Intelligence Practices

stuart eisler
Partner (Construction Section) and E-Discovery Counsel at Hanson Bridett LLP

Kevin Mohktari
Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of California

Judge Allison Goddard was sworn in as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of California in August 2019. She graduated from Boston College in 1993 and received her J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2000. Judge Goddard spent the first half of her legal career representing corporate defendants in litigation at Cooley LLP and her own law firm, Jaczko Goddard LLP. In 2011, she shifted her practice to representing plaintiffs in complex and intellectual property litigation. She has tried several cases, including class actions and patent infringement disputes. Judge Goddard speaks regularly on eDiscovery and technology in the law. She teaches trial practice and coaches a mock trial team at a local high school. She recently traveled to Uzbekistan to promote the rule of law and judicial independence.

James co-leads the Emerging Technology team of BakerHostetler’s Digital Assets and Data Management Group while directing the firm’s Artificial Intelligence and Information Governance engagements. His work spans litigation, transactions and regulatory enforcement while helping clients confront discovery management process issues; enterprise risk management; records and information governance; data privacy, security and bank secrecy; artificial intelligence and algorithmic transparency; technology integration issues; and related merger and acquisition, asset purchase and divestiture diligence.

Stuart has extensive experience representing award-winning heavy civil, industrial, commercial, and residential developers and general contractors in complex construction disputes. His knowledge has been utilized in a wide range of bet-the-company matters that include contract issues, strict products liability, project delay and disruption, loss of use, deficient quality, redevelopment matters, LEED green building construction complications, personal injury, and negligent supervision claims. In addition to his litigation practice, Stuart provides transactional services, business counseling, and client presentations on a variety of subjects including best practices, master contract provisions, LEED-igation, insurance products, and the intricacies of SB800 or California’s Right To Repair Law.  

Kevin Mokhtari earned his J.D. from UCLA School of Law and a magna cum laude B.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. Kevin is an experienced trial lawyer with a background in complex civil litigation and criminal trials. He previously served as Counsel at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he handled high-stakes litigation matters, including securing a complete defense verdict in a $12 billion antitrust jury trial recognized as one of the Top Defense Verdicts of 2011. His experience also includes defeating nationwide class actions, prosecuting multiple jury trials as lead counsel for a city attorney’s office, and defending clients in criminal fraud investigations.