Balázs Bodó, Professor of Information Law and Policy, with special emphasis on Technology Governance

I'm an economist, socio-legal researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam.

I was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society in 2006/7 and a Fellow at the Center between 2006 and 2012. In 2012/13 I was a Fulbright Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. In 2013 I moved to Amsterdam as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam.

In 2018 I received an ERC Starting Grant to study the legal, and political implications of blockchain based technologies, and started the Blockchain & Society Policy Research Lab. I have been invited by the European Commission to serve as an expert for various blockchain related projects. in 2019 I have been a senior visiting fellow at the Weizenbaum-Institut für die vernetzte Gesellschaft, Berlin.

Before moving to the Netherlands, I was deeply involved in the development of the Hungarian internet culture. I was the project lead for Creative Commons Hungary. I was a member of the National Copyright Expert Group. As an assistant professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, I helped to established and led the university’s Masters Program in Cultural Industries. I have advised several public and private institutions on digital archives, content distribution, online communities, business development.

Since 2024 I am the program director of the Amsterdam Law School's Advanced LLM in Technology Governance program, and lead the Trust in the digital Society RPA.

My academic interests include copyright and economics, piracy, media regulation, peer-to-peer communities, shadow libraries, digital archives, informal media economies, and similar regulatory conflicts around new technological architectures.