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Nathalie Mallet-Poujol

Career history

  • 1981–1989 Attorney at Law, Paris Bar
  • 1989–1993 Research Fellow at the CNRS, IRCID, Ivry-sur-Seine
  • 1993–2007 Research Fellow at the CNRS, UMR 5815, University of Montpellier I
  • 2007–2021 Research Director at the CNRS, UMR 5815, University of Montpellier

Degrees

  • 1980 Master's Degree in Private Law, University of Paris I
  • 1980 Certificate of Aptitude for the Legal Profession (CAPA), University of Paris I
  • 1981 Master's Degree in the History of Law and Institutions, University of Paris II
  • 1982 Master’s Degree in Legal Informatics and Information Technology Law, University of Montpellier I
  • 1991 PhD Private Law, University of Montpellier I
  • 1995 Qualification to Supervise Research, University of Montpellier I

Search fields

  • His work focuses primarily on copyright law, media law, and data protection.
  • In particular, she examines the legal changes brought about by the internet in these areas of law, such as the issue ofthe “right to be forgotten,” which involves not only the“Data Protection Act”but also the 1881 Law on Freedom of the Press and the 2004 Law on Confidence in the Digital Economy.

 The most representative works

  •  Historical Liberties: An Essay on Freedom of Expression in History, 860 pp.,Mare & Marin, 2020
  •  Lamy Digital Law (co-authored with M. Vivant and B. Warusfel), annual edition ; since 2005, coverage of developmentsin data protection law
  • Juris-Classeur, Literary and Artistic Property : Journalists’ Copyright, Vol. 1229, 5th edition, January 2020
  • Law, Works of Art, and Museums (co-authored with M. Cornu), 401 pp., CNRS Editions, March 2001, and 2nd edition, 601 pp., July2006 (the book was awarded the “Dupin Aîné” Prize by the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in July 2001)
  • Electronic Tracking and Civil Liberties Political and Social Issues, No. 925, La documentation Française, June 2006  
  •  Legal Issues Related to the Internet Political and Social Issues, No. 893, La documentation Française, October 2003  

 The most representative recent articles

  • News websites, judicial proceedings, and the right to be forgotten online: Légipresse, Nov. 2021, No. 397, pp. 536–541
  • Combating Fake News and Freedom of Expression on the Internet: The French Approach:G. J. Guglielmi (ed.), The Evolution of Freedom of Expression in French and Foreign Law, Editions Panthéon-Assas, 2021, pp. 137–154
  • Trade Secrets, Whistleblowers, and the Risks of Self-Censorship: A Legal Approach:*Revue Communications*, No. 106, “Post-Censorship(s),” Seuil, 2020, pp. 175–186
  • Freedom of Expression in the Age of the Internet : in “Penser le droit de la pensée,” Essays in Honor of Michel Vivant, LexisNexis and Dalloz 2020, pp. 279–295
  • Neighboring rights for news agencies and publishers: the wide gap between intermediaries and infomediaries: B. Gleize and A. Maffre Baugé (eds.), Intellectual Property in the Digital Age, Dalloz 2020, pp. 127–144
  • Search Engines Between the Right to Information and the Right to Be Forgotten: From Real-Time Access to Information to a Time That Is Suspended in Various Ways: Légipresse, Dec. 2019, No. 377, pp. 687–693
  • The Emergence of Privacy Protection in the 1979 Archives Act:in “1979, The Genesis of an Archives Act” (ed.M. Cornu, Ch. Nougaret, Y. Potin, B. Ricard, N. Wagener), Doc. fr. 2019, pp. 263–271
  • Rumors and Freedom of Expression: Between Lies and Truth: Légicom, “The Law Facing the Challenge of Rumors,” No. 60, 2018/1, pp. 9–18
  • Personal Data Protection in the Age ofOpen Dataand Court Rulings: The Case of Data on Court Cases: Practical Journal of Foresight and Innovation, April 2018/1, Issue No. 4, pp. 28–32