Sébastien Meeùs

12 December 2023

Sébastien Meeùs is a doctoral student in law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in a joint PhD with the Université de Montréal (UdeM). He is a research assistant at HEC Paris in the Smart Law Hub, at ULB in the Perelman Centre and at UdeM in the Cyberjustice Laboratory. He is also a teaching assistant for the Data Law course at ULB. Sébastien holds a Master’s degree in Economic and Social Law from ULB and a Master’s degree in Information and Communication Technology Law (DTIC) from the University of Namur (taught at CRIDS), both with Distinction.

His interests and research focus on the legal impact of web3 and video games and on the shaping of the digital habits by metaverse. During his research mandates, Sébastien worked on the development of techno-legal compliance tools (GDPR-120, JusticeBot) as well as participating in reflections on normative power and its articulation in digital environments in Canada, the European Union and around the world following a global law approach. His thesis examines the interoperability of the rules of law in the digital ecosystems of web3.

Committed to sharing knowledge in an original way, Sébastien launched the Legal Pixels YouTube channel to discuss the special relationship between law and the digital worlds. He also was awarded the ULB 2023 Scientific Communication Award for his CyberLex videos.

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